OUTLINE THE CHAPTER, DETAILED NOTES REQUIRED, page numbers, author required

The 1920s / The Great Depression
Maier
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)

  1. Who or what is the item?
  2. List a few items students should know
  3. Make a summary statement regarding the significance for the item?
  4. Item must be no larger than 8 1/2”x 11”

Key Terms

The Roaring 20’s

  1. Ku Klux Klan
  2. Emergency Quota Act, 1921
  3. National Origins Act, 1924
  4. Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong
  5. Back to Africa Movement, Marcus Garvey
  6. Religious fundamentalism
  7. John T. Scopes, William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow
  8. Car Culture, Henry Ford, Model T
  9. Advertising comes of age, Radio, movies
  10. Babe Ruth
  11. Charles Lindbergh
  12. The Jazz Singer, 1927, Al Jolson
  13. Changes for Women, Flappers
  14. Margaret Sanger
  15. Unions in the 1920’s, “American Plan”
  16. Dawes Plan, 1924
  17. Democratic Party turmoil
  18. Republican Presidents, ideals
  19. Warren G. Harding, Return to Normalcy, scandals,Teapot Dome
  20. Calvin Coolidge
  21. Herbert Hoover
  22. Albert B. Fall
  23. Harry M. Daugherty
  24. Alfred E. Smith
  25. "American Plan"
  26. Norman Thomas
  27. Fordney-McCumber Tariff, 1922
  28. “Lost Generation”, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner
  29. Sacco and Vanzetti Case
  30. House Un-American Activities Committee
  31. Ku Klux Klan, Nativism
  32. Emergency Quota Act 1921
  33. Immigration Quota Act 1924
  34. "Birth of a Nation"
  35. Prohibition/Volstead Act
  36. Al Capone
  37. Organized Crime
  38. Election of 1928,
  39. Hoover Foreign Policy-Japan attacks China

The Great Depression

  1. Causes of the Depression
  2. “Hooverville”
  3. Stock Market Crash, “Black Tuesday”
  4. Republican Response to Great Depression, “Trickle Down,” “Pump Priming”
  5. Economic Cycle, Chain Reaction, Unemployment
  6. Andrew Mellon
  7. Banking Crisis
  8. Smoot-Hawley Tariff, 1930
  9. Reconstruction Finance Corporation
  10. Public Works
  11. "Bonus Army," 1932
  12. Election of 1932- “FDR”

The New Deal

  1. Relief, Recovery, Reform
  2. "Fireside Chats"
  3. Emergency Banking Act, 1933
  4. Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act, 1933
  5. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  6. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1934
  7. Civilian Conservation Corps
  8. Federal Emergency Relief Administration
  9. Harry Hopkins
  10. Home Owners Loan Corporation
  11. Dust Bowl