Unit 7— BOOM & BUST THE ROARING 20S AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION (1920s-1930s) Stuff to Know

Unit Lessons 1-Reversion: Business & Political Climate of Roaring 20s (Ch 20) 2-A Little Party… Social & Cultural Climate of Roaring 20s (Ch 21) 3-How Low Can You Go—The Great Depression (Ch 22) 4-Happy Days are Here Again—FDR & New Deal (Ch 23)

Possible Written Response Qs Explain how the decade of the 20s was a reversion to past business practices and a reactionary period. Assess the New Deal… its effectiveness at dealing with the Great Depression and how it permanently altered America.

Ch 20—Business & Politics of 20s Docs: Nativism (domestic actions) Isolationism (foreign policy) Communism & Red Scare IWW (Wobblies) & radicals Palmer Raids (targets? Why?) Sacco a & Vanzetti Emergency Quota Act (1921) and Quota System – intent Rise of KKK (beliefs) Reason for decline of Labor Mvt Presidency of Warren Harding Ohio Gang, Albert Fall, Teapot Dome Scandal Presidency of Calvin Coolidge Coolidge Quotes about Business Pro-Business policies of Reps. Emergent Industries of 20s Importance of Auto/ Transform America (kids, development patterns, culture, etc.) Sprawl Consumer products, Advertising, Credit, Standards of Living, Trouble (unsustainable!) Explain how 20s were a period of “reversion” (business pract)

Ch 21—A Little Party… Social & Cultural Docs: Zeitz Essay,“Roaring 20s” Migration to cities Emergent cities; new ideas City culture/society (Gatsby) Aaron Douglas (Aspects of Negro Life) Prohibition, Speakeasies, G-men, Bathtub gin, bootleggers Rise of organized crime Flapper (& liberated woman) Age of radio (3 significants) Emergence of Pop Culture Harlem Renaissance Artists: Gershwins, Ella Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Fitzgerald (Lost Gen), Z. N. Hurston, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay (poem), Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, etc. NAACP Marcus Garvey Gatsby Stereotype… but not for all (most Americans not leading this existence).

Ch 22—How Lo Can U Go… Gr8t Dep Docs: DBQ Pack (Hoover, Ford, Editors of The Nation, FDR) Plight of Farmers (even before Great Depression). Why? McNary-Haugen BILL Downward Econ Spiral (explain) Capitalism & Stock Market Bull & Bear Markets Speculation & Buying on Margin Oct. 29, 2929… Black Tuesday Run on Banks Great Depression (employment, productivity-GDP, Prices, Confidence) International Effects of GD Causes of Great Depression (and which one did John Green say was most significant?) Herbert Hoover and his Depression Era policies Impact of GD on American people—Shantytowns/ Hoovervilles, Hobos, Soup Lines Dust Bowl Okies (attitudes toward) Dorothea Lange Hoover’s RFC & Hoover Dam Trickle Down Econ Theory Bonus Army

Ch 23—Happy Days… FDR & New Deal Specific Relief Programs—AAA, TVA, CCC, FHA, WPA (NYA), FERA, OASDI (aka SS) Opposition to New Deal & Conservative Backlash. WHY? Deficit spending Supreme Court Policies Against FDR (FDR’s reaction) Wagner Act (NLRB) Art and Music under New Deal American Gothic This Land is Your Land Importance of New Deal (p725) Assess New Deal Ultimate GD remedy Docs: FDR & Election of 1932 (new…) Campaign Song New Deal pledge/ program Brain Trust 100 Days Fireside Chats 3 Goals of New Deal Financial Reform Bank Holiday Emergency Banking Relief Act FDIC SEC Help for People (explain how it worked)