OUTLINE THE CHAPTER, DETAILED NOTES REQUIRED, page numbers, author required
The 1920s / The Great DepressionMaier
Chapter 23 War, Prosperity, and the Metropolis 1914-1929
Due March 12 Pages 732-749 / Brinkley
Chapter 24 The New Era 1920’s
Due March 12 Pages 627-647 / Maier
Chapter 24 Great Depression and The New Deal: 1929-1940
Due March 16 Pages 751-760 / Brinkley
Chapter 25 The Great Depression
Due March 16 Pages 649-673
Essay: Some historians have described the 1920s as a “watershed” in American history, the point where “modern America” began. To what extent do you agree with this characterization?
New Era: The 1920s
Republican governments
Business creed
Harding scandals
Economic development
Prosperity and wealth
Farm and labor problems
New culture
Consumerism: automobile, radio, movies
Women, the family
Modern religion
Literature of alienation
Jazz age
Harlem Renaissance
Conflict of cultures
Prohibition, bootlegging
Nativism
Ku Klux Klan
Religious fundamentalism versus modernists
Myth of isolation
Replacing the League of Nations
Business and diplomacy
Depression, 1929-1933
Wall Street crash
Depression economy
Moods of despair
Agrarian unrest
Bonus march
Hoover-Stimson diplomacy; Japan
Timeline of the 1920s-
Bring in 3 pictures/illustrations of the following items
Include a brief bulleted listing of key information on a scale of 5 (5 key ideas)
- Who or what is the item?
- List a few items students should know
- Make a summary statement regarding the significance for the item?
- Item must be no larger than 8 1/2”x 11”
Key Terms
The Roaring 20’s
- Ku Klux Klan
- Emergency Quota Act, 1921
- National Origins Act, 1924
- Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong
- Back to Africa Movement, Marcus Garvey
- Religious fundamentalism
- John T. Scopes, William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow
- Car Culture, Henry Ford, Model T
- Advertising comes of age, Radio, movies
- Babe Ruth
- Charles Lindbergh
- The Jazz Singer, 1927, Al Jolson
- Changes for Women, Flappers
- Margaret Sanger
- Unions in the 1920’s, “American Plan”
- Dawes Plan, 1924
- Democratic Party turmoil
- Republican Presidents, ideals
- Warren G. Harding, Return to Normalcy, scandals,Teapot Dome
- Calvin Coolidge
- Herbert Hoover
- Albert B. Fall
- Harry M. Daugherty
- Alfred E. Smith
- "American Plan"
- Norman Thomas
- Fordney-McCumber Tariff, 1922
- “Lost Generation”, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner
- Sacco and Vanzetti Case
- House Un-American Activities Committee
- Ku Klux Klan, Nativism
- Emergency Quota Act 1921
- Immigration Quota Act 1924
- "Birth of a Nation"
- Prohibition/Volstead Act
- Al Capone
- Organized Crime
- Election of 1928,
- Hoover Foreign Policy-Japan attacks China
The Great Depression
- Causes of the Depression
- “Hooverville”
- Stock Market Crash, “Black Tuesday”
- Republican Response to Great Depression, “Trickle Down,” “Pump Priming”
- Economic Cycle, Chain Reaction, Unemployment
- Andrew Mellon
- Banking Crisis
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff, 1930
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
- Public Works
- "Bonus Army," 1932
- Election of 1932- “FDR”
The New Deal
- Relief, Recovery, Reform
- "Fireside Chats"
- Emergency Banking Act, 1933
- Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act, 1933
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Securities and Exchange Commission, 1934
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration
- Harry Hopkins
- Home Owners Loan Corporation
- Dust Bowl