Use the PPT to follow along with the unit. You can also print it in "Notes" format and use as a reading guide for this unit.
Chapter 20: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, muckrakers, Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair/The Jungle, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, social gospel, Jane Addams, Hull House, monopoly, laissez-faire, trust busting, Plessy v. Ferguson, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B DuBois, NAACP
Chapter 21: Triple Entente, Allied Powers, Central Powers, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Lusitania, Zimmermann telegram, Selective Service Act, propaganda, Espionage Act, Sedition Act, Russian Revolution, Flu Epidemic of 1918, Treaty of Versailles, The Fourteen points, The League of Nations the Red Scare, Woodrow Wilson
Chapter 22: 19th Amendment, The Equal Rights Amendment, consumerism, Mary Pickford, pop culture, Jazz, the flapper, the Great Migration, The Harlem Renaissance, Marcus Garvey, Christian fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, the KKK
Chapter 23: FDR, Stock Market Crash, Herbert Hoover, the Dust Bowl, the Okies, the New Deal, the First Hundred Days, the Great Depression, bank failures, the 1932 Election
How is the Progressive Era a response to the Gilded Age?
Explain why the US originally sought neutrality during WWI. What prompted the US to later join the conflict?
What caused the Great Depression?
In what ways did the New Deal fundamentally change the American government?
What social progress was seen for women, African Americans and immigrants during this time period? What stayed the same?
American History Tellers: Season 67 - World War 1
Episode 2: The Yanks Are Coming - Specifically Dives Into the US Entrance into WWI
American History Tellers: Season 10 - The Great Depression
History Extra: America's "Roaring Twenties": Everything You Wanted to Know