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CHAPTER 23 – The Great Depression

1. THE COMING OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

a. The Great Crash

b. Causes of the Depression

c. Progress of the Depression

2. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN HARD TIMES

a. Unemployment and Relief

b. African Americans and the Depression

c. Mexican Americans in Depression America

d. Asian Americans in Hard Times

e. Women and the Workplace in the Great Depression

f. Depression Families

3. THE DEPRESSION AND AMERICAN CULTURE

a. Depression Values

b. Artists and Intellectuals in the Great Depression

c. Radio

d. Movies in the New Era

e. Popular Literature and Journalism

f. The Popular Front and the Left

4. THE UNHAPPY PRESIDENCY OF HERBERT HOOVER

a. The Hoover Program

b. Popular Protest

c. The Election of 1932

d. The “Interregnum”

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• Great Depression
• limited welfare state
• Great Migration
• New Deal
• management, labor
• laissez-faire capitalism

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• Agricultural Marketing Act
• Black Tuesday
• Bonus Army
• Dust Bowl
• Frank Capra
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff
• Hindenburg
• Hoovervilles
• Great Depression-era deportations
• John Dos Passos
• John Steinbeck
• Okies
• Orson Welles
• Popular Front
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation
• Scottsboro case
• sopa operas
• Herbert Hoover

The Grapes of Wrath

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The Public Enemy