Unit 1: Ecstasy and Depression, 1920-1938

Unit Overview: Ecstasy and Depression

This unit covers the years 1919-1940. Major events/themes found in the unit:

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 

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

2003 AP US History FRQ

Sparknotes Summaries:

The Roaring Twenties

The Great Depression and New Deal