1920-1930’s study guide
• 1. The 1920s were a time of rapid social
change in which many people – particularly
women – adopted new lifestyles and
attitudesTraditional values were
challenged
• 2. By 1930 29% of the workforce was
women.
• Flappers were young women who wore
short dresses, smoked, danced, and
drank in public
• 3. Magazines
and newspapers
created a common culture,
MUSIC AND NEWS-The radio
audience and the African
American migration to the
cities made jazz popular
• Until 1927 movies were
silent then the talkies
• 4. Fundamentalists in Tennessee
passed a law saying that evolution
could not be taught in schools.
– 1925, high school biology teacher, John
Scopes taught it and was arrested
5. Prejudice against non-whites, nonChristian, non-Protestants, Jews,
immigrants, etc.
• 6. OVERSPECULATION IN STOCK
MARKET-BORROWING TOO MUCH
MONEY TO BET ON STOCKS
• D-DEPOSITS IN THE MARKET
• E-EXCESSIVE CREDIT
• B-BANKRUPTICIES
• O-OUT OF MONEY-BANK RUNS
• 10/29/29
• 7. BANKS HAD NO MONEY TO GIVE AND PEOPLE
PANICKED
• NO INVESTMENT
8. HIGH TARIFFS-HAWLEY-SMOOT TARIFF
• OVERPRODUCTION OF GOODS/FOOD
• FEDERAL RESERVE FAILED TO STOP COLLAPSE OF
THE NATION’S BANKING SYSTEM LEADING TO SEVERE
SHORTAGE OF MONEY IN CIRCULATION
• STOCK MARKET CRASH-1929-COLLAPSE STOCK
PRICES-OVERSPECULATION
• Herbert Hoover
9. The public wanted escapist movie entertainmentfor example musicals, gangster, comedies
RADIO programs-mysteries, westerns
• 10. Collapse of financial system
• Unemployment /Homelessness
– Rises to 25% within 4 years
• Farm foreclosures and migration
• Union Unrest
• Decline in the demand for goods
• 11. LOST FARMS
• THE DUST BOWL
• BECAME MIGRANT WORKERS
(CALIFORNIA)-poorest of the poor-think
MIGRANT MOTHER PICTURE
12. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) is elected
President promising to end the
Depression
13. The only thing we have to fear is fear
itself
– 14. Relief
for the needy
–Economic Recovery
–Financial Reform
15. Works Progress Administration
(WPA)-direct
payment for immediate help Ex. Built roads, schools
Social Security Act- safeguards for workers
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)-Made farmers
reduce production of foods to drive the price up
FDIC(Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)insures peoples money in banks
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)oversees the stock market
• 16. CHANGED THE ROLE OF THE
GOVERNMENT INTO SOLVING
PROBLEMS
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**THE LEGACY OF THE NEW DEAL is
1) TO DELIVER PUBLIC SERVICES,
2)TO INTERVENE IN THE ECONOMY
3)TO PROMOTE GENERAL WELFARE.
18. Old age pensions for retirees 65 and
older
2)Unemployment compensation
3) Aid to families with dependent children
and the disabled
19. The Great Depression is ended by the
industrial demand for goods caused by
World War II.
20. Writers: Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott
Fitzgerald and Langton Hughes
Movie Stars: Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich,
James Cagney, Vivian Leigh, Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers
Painters: Edward Hopper, Thomas Hart Benton
and Grant Wood.
Radio Stars: Orson Welles, Bob Hope and Jack
Benny.