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:

    1. 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
    2. 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
    3. How did TWO of the following help shape American national culture in the 1920s?
      • Advertising
      • Entertainment
      • Mass Production
    4. 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