U.S. History Unit Assignment: The Twenties and the Thirties
DIRECTIONS: This is the same type of assignment we had for first semester except that it covers more
than one chapter. We are moving to a unit type of study to cover more material to prepare for the state
testing. This assignment covers Chapters 8 through 10 and will be due January 31.
Chapter 8:
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“A return to normalcy”
Teapot Dome Scandal
Calvin Coolidge
Andrew Mellon
Supply-side economics
Cooperative individualism
Isolationism
Dawes Plan
Washington Conference
Kellogg-Briand Pact
London Naval Treaties
Mass production
Assembly line
Henry Ford and the Model T
Consumer products (list 3 to 5)
Kelly Act and the Air Commerce Act of 1926
Charles Lindbergh
Edwin Armstrong
National Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting System
Credit and installment plan
Farm crisis
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Return of the Ku Klux Klan
Emergency Quota and National Origins Acts
Flappers and other changes for women (list at least 3)
Florence Sabin and Margaret Sanger
Fundamentalism
The trial of John Scopes
18th Amendment
Speakeasies and 21st Amendment
Bohemian
Modern American artists—choose one and describe their style of painting
Poets and writers—choose one each and describe their style of writing
The Jazz Singer
Sports—choose one athlete and tell what they did
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Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay and the two major characteristics of Harlem Renaissance writing
Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
Louis Armstrong and jazz
“Duke” Ellington and the Cotton Club
Bessie Smith
Paul Robson and Josephine Baker
Oscar DePriest
Marcus Garvey
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Election of 1928—candidates, parties, and issues
Bull market
Black Tuesday
Bank run
Six causes of the Great Depression
Hoovervilles
Dust Bowl and “Okies”
Arts and Entertainment—take two each and describe their impact
“rugged individualism”
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hunger marches and protests by farmers—2 to 3 sentences describing each
“Bonus Army”
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Presidential election of 1932—candidates, parties, and issues
Bank holidays
Hundred Days
Emergency Banking Relief Act
SEC and FDIC
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Farm Credit Administration
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
National Recovery Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
Public Works Administration
Civil Works Administration
Deficit spending
Huey Long
Father Charles Coughlin
Francis Townsend
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Works Progress Administration
National Labor Relations Board
Committee for Industrial Organization
Social Security Act
Presidential election of 1936 results
Court-packing plan
Last New Deal Reforms—3 and description of each
New Deal’s Legacy—2 to 3 sentences