Unit 11 Review
Boom & Bust
1920-1940
Ch. 34-36
Themes:
- Harding and the 1920s as the end of Progressivism
- What aspects of Progressivism survived into the 1920s?
- Were the 1920s "golden" or "Roaring" for farmers, labor, and business?
- Coolidge: The man who builds a factory builds a temple; the man who works there worships there
- The 1920s as an age of nonconformity: African Americans, feminists, literary criticism, new sexual freedoms
- The dark side of the 1920s: anti-immigtation, KKK, Scopes Trial, prohibition
- Alienation as a literary theme in the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby (the "lost generation")
- Causes of the Great Depression
- Compare the criticisms of American society writers made in the 1920s with those made in the 1930s
- Compare Hoover's and FDR's response to the Depression
- Compare the role of the federal government in the economies of the 1920s and 1930s
- The twenties were pro-business; the thirties were anti-business
- Compare Progressivism and the New Deal
- Compare and contrast the First and Second New Deals
- Analyze the successes and failures of the New Deal
- The Supreme Court and the New Deal
- Impact of various New Deal programs and agencies on American society
- Rise of the welfare state
- Big government and big labor checked big business
- Explain the critics of the New Deal: Townsend, Coughlin, Huey Long, Leftists, conservatives
- What ended the reform effort by the late 1930s?
- Reform would have come without a depression because reform in American history is the periodic readjustment of aspects of the economy
- Compare the labor movement of the 1930s with the labor movement of the late 19c
- Why did the socialist party fail to become a serious factor in American politics?
Terms:
- "Return to Normalcy"
- Muscle Shoals
- Election of 1924
- Federal Farm Board
- Theodore Dreiser
- T.S. Eliot
- Fundamentalists
- Bill Sunday
- Henry Ford
- Harlem Renaissance
- Marcus Garvey
- Charles Lindbergh
- 5:5:3 naval ratio
- Young Plan
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Andrew Mellon
- Progressive Party
- "The Lost Generation"
- Ernest Hemingway
- prohibition
- Immigration Acts
- Scopes Trial
- The Jazz Singer
- the "New Woman"
- Langston Hughes
- Pan-African movement
- "Spirit of St. Louis"
- Washington Naval Conference
- Dawes Plan
- Kellog-Briand Treaty
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff
- Bonus Army
- Good Neighbor Policy
- Election of 1932
- Bank holiday
- Emergency Banking Relief Act
- Glass-Steagall Act
- National Industry Recovery Act
- Agricultural Adjustment Act
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration
- Public Works Administration
- Harry Hopkins
- Home Owner's Loan Corporation
- Securities & Exchange Commission
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- National Youth Administration
- Wagner Act
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- John L. Lewis
- Oakies
- Francis Perkins
- Keynesian economics
- "Share the Wealth"
- Election of 1936
- "Court Packing"
- Hatch Act
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
- Hoovervilles
- 20th and 21st amendment
- RRR
- FDIC
- NRA
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- Civil Works Administration
- Works Progress Administration
- Federal Arts Project
- Federal Housing Project
- Joseph Kennedy, Sr
- Rural Electrification Administration
- Indian Reorganization Act
- National Labor Relations Board
- Congress of Industrial Organization
- Dust Bowl
- John Steinbeck
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Huey Long
- Father Charles Coughlin
- Social Security Act
- Charles Evans Hughes
Essays Questions:
- Historians have argues that Progressive reform lost momentum in the 1920s. Evaluate this statement in regards to TWO of the following:
- Regulation of business
- Labor
- Immigrants
- To what extent did the role of the federal government change under President Theodore Roosevelt in regards to TWO of the following:
- Labor
- Trusts
- Conservation
- World Affairs
- How did TWO of the following help shape American national culture in the 1920s?
- Advertising
- Entertainment
- Mass Production
- How successful were the programs of the New Deal in solving the problems of the Great Depression? Asses with respect to TWO of the following:
- Relief
- Recovery
- Reform