Unit 11 - Boom and Bust 1920-1940

Objective:

1. Trace the political and social changes after World War I and throughout the decade of the 1920s.

2. Describe the effects of Prohibition, the changing role of women, and the influence of the Harlem Renaissance on the American consciousness.

3. Understand the causes and consequences of the Great Depression and the futility of Hoover's actions to limit the damage.

4. Analyze FDR's New Deal and explain the impact these polices had on the American nation.

Unit Themes:

1. The New Era: 1920s
   • The business of America and the consumer economy
   • Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
   • The culture of Modernism: science, the arts, and entertainment
   • Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and Prohibition
   • The ongoing struggle for equality: African Americans and women
2. The Great Depression and the New Deal
   • Causes of the Great Depression
   • The Hoover administration's response
   • Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal
   • Labor and union recognition
   • The New Deal coalition and its critics from the Right and the Left
   • Surviving hard times: American society during the Great Depression Links

Links

Slang of the 1920s

America in the 1930s

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