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

2. 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)

3. 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.

4. 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)

5. 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).

6. 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

7. 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)