Week 25
Chapter 14—The Great Depression
Chapter 15—The New Deal (skipped section 4)
- The political, economic, environmental, and social causes of the Great Depression, including financial policies, overproduction, under-consumption, speculation, the 1929 stock market crash, and the Dust Bowl
- The economic and social effects of the Great Depression, including unemployment and environmental conditions that affected farmers, industrial workers, and families
- Shantytowns, soup kitchens, bread lines, direct relief
- How was what happened to men during the Great Depression different from what happened to women and children?
- Identify some of the physical and emotional health problems caused by the Great Depression.
- How did the Great Depression affect the daily lives of average Americans?
- How did Dust Bowl conditions in the Great Plains affect the entire country?
- In what ways did the Great Depression affect people’s outlook?
- Hoover’s policies and their impact
- How did Hoover try to fix the Great Depression? Include info about the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and the Bonus Army. Also know Rugged Individualism.
- Evaluate President Hoover’s success in dealing with the Great Depression. Were his actions as president effective? How did the public perceive his actions?
Chapter 15—The New Deal (skipped section 4)
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt—who was he, what was he remembered for? What was the New Deal?
- The Hundred Days—What did FDR try to do? How was he different from Hoover in this respect?
- Helping Americans: Programs (AAA, CCC, NIRA, FDIC)
- Deficit Spending
- The 2nd Hundred Days—programs and actions
- Eleanor Roosevelt—what did she do? What did she work for?
- How did the government try to help farmers?
- WPA, NYA—what were the goals of these organizations?
- Social Security Act –what were its major parts?
- New Deal effects –women, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans
- New Deal Coalition
- FDR re-elected
Week 22--Chapters 12 and 13 Study Guide
Unit 5: The Roaring Twenties
Chapters 12 and 13 (skipped a couple sections—make sure to check!)
This is NOT everything that could be on the test, it is just a guide to help you! Make sure to read your notes, handouts, and think about activities we did as well!
Chapters 12 and 13 (skipped a couple sections—make sure to check!)
This is NOT everything that could be on the test, it is just a guide to help you! Make sure to read your notes, handouts, and think about activities we did as well!
- The problems America faced after the war (nativism, isolationism, communist fears, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, KKK, Quota System)
- The struggle between “traditional” and “modern” America (Scopes Trial, immigration restrictions, Prohibition, the role of women).
- Explain the circumstances and outcome of the Scopes Trial
- Explain how the Red Scare, the Sacco and Vanzetti case, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan reflected concerns held by many Americans.
- Differences between rural and urban lifestyles
- Prohibition, bootleggers, speakeasies à why do you think organized crime spread so quickly through cities in the 1920s? Be able to explain your answer!
- How could prohibition be considered a problem rather than a solution? What problems was it trying to solve?
- The Twenties Woman à The flapper, the double standard, the changing lives and roles of women, new work opportunities, new family changes
- In what ways did the flapper rebel against earlier styles and attitudes of women?
- What key social, economic, and technological changes of the 1920s affected women’s marriages and family life?
- Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation, Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith
- Marcus Garvey and the “Back to Africa” movement
- Great Migration’s effect on the Harlem Renaissance
- In what ways was the prosperity of the U.S. superficial?