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Unit Overview: Ecstasy and Depression
This unit covers the years 1919-1940. Major events/themes found in the unit:
The Versailles Treaty and Post-WWI Europe
1920's: "Return to Normalcy"
1920's: Sweeping technological and social changes
1920's: The rise of the stock market
The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression
Roosevelt's "New Deal"
Isolationism and the growing crisis in Europe
Unit 1 Essay: From Boom to Bust
In order to get credit for this project you must write a well-developed essay on ONE of the following topics:
From Boom to Bust
FRQ: Analyze the origins and outcomes of the intense cultural conflicts of the 1920's. In your response, focus on TWO of the following: Immigration; Prohibition; Religion (2012)
FRQ: Compare and contrast the ways that many Americans expressed their opposition to immigrants in the 1840's–1850's with the ways that many Americans expressed their opposition to immigrants in the 1910's–1920s. (2011)
FRQ: Historians have argued that Progressive reform lost momentum in the 1920’s. Evaluate this statement with respect to TWO of the following: Regulation of business; Labor; Immigrants. (2006)
FRQ: How did TWO of the following help shape American national culture in the 1920’s? Advertising; Entertainment; Mass production. (2006)
DBQ: How and for what reasons did United States foreign policy change between 1920-1941? Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1920-1941 to construct your answer. (2004)
2004B Questions.pdf
FRQ: Compare and contrast the programs and policies designed by reformers of the Progressive era to those designed by reformers of the New Deal period. Confine your answer to programs and policies that addressed the needs of those living in poverty. (2004)
DBQ: Analyze the responses of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration to the problems of the Great Depression. How effective were these responses? How did they change the role of the federal government? Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1929-1941 to construct your essay. (2003)
2003 Questions (1).pdf
Unit Documentaries:
The Century Part 3, Boom and Bust (45:00)
American Experience: Riding the Rails (51:32)
The Century Part 4, Stormy Weather (45:00)
Unit Short Videos:
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial (3:55)
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 (2:20)
The Causes of the Great Depression (2:15)
The Great Depression and Dust Bowl in Photos (2:48)
Unit Lectures:
Unit Readings:
Margaret Sanger, "The Morality of Birth Control", 1921
H.L. Mencken, "The Monkey Trial: a Reporter's Account", 1923
Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian", 1927
Eleanor Roosevelt, "What Ten Million Women Want", 1932
Franklin Roosevelt, "First Inaugural Address", 1933
FDR Fireside Chat: "Outlining the New Deal", 1933
Huey P. Long, "A Speech to the American People", 1934
The Nation, "The Supreme Court Swings the Ax", 1936
AP US History B Unit 1 Key Terms
For this project you must define the terms listed below and explain each term's significance to the unit/era being studied. Your definition should be 2-3 sentences long and may be copied and pasted from a source like Wikipedia, but the significance of the term must be in your own words and based on your own understanding. To fill out a term's significance, ask yourself, "Why is this item included in my study of this unit? Why is this term in a history book?" The answer to this question is your term's significance.
Unit 1 Key Terms:
Great Migration
1st Red Scare
Versailles Treaty
Dawes Plan
Emergency Quota Act
Birth of a Nation
Return to Normalcy
Harlem Renaissance
Roaring 20's
Steel Strike of 1919
19th Amendment
mass production
The Jazz Singer
Teapot Dome Scandal
"flappers"
Margaret Sanger
"Lost Generation"
Sacco-Vanzetti
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Babe Ruth
Charles Lindbergh
Garvey Movement
W.E.B. DuBois
KKK
Scopes Monkey Trial
ACLU
18th Amendment
Crash of 1929
The Great Depression
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
"Bonus Army"
"Hoovervilles"
Elections of 1932
The New Deal
The "Hundred Days"
Emergency Banking Relief Act
CCC
WPA
TVA
AAA
National Recovery Administration
Glass-Steagall Act
Good Neighbor Policy
Isolationism
Dustbowl
American Liberty League
Charles Coughlin
Huey Long
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act
Social Security Act of 1935
Wagner Act
Election of 1936
FDR's "Court Packing" scheme
"Roosevelt Depression"
Grapes of Wrath
Popular Front
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Attachments: AP US History B Unit 1 Readings.docx AP US History B Unit 1 Readings.odt
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