Unit 5 – (Roaring) 1920s and the Great Depression
Key Terms
45. Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Things/Concepts
1. Roaring ‘20s
46. Grapes of Wrath
2. Assembly Line
47. Dust Bowl
3. Mass Production
48. Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
4. Consumerism (Mass Consumption)
49. Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
5. Culture Wars
6. Traditionalism
People and Organizations
7. Modernism
50. Calvin Coolidge
8. Automobiles
51. Warren G. Harding
9. Lost Generation
52. Herbert Hoover
10. Harlem Renaissance
53. Henry Ford
11. Flappers
54. Charles Lindbergh
12. Organized Crime
55. Gertrude Stein
13. Prohibition
56. F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Disarmament
57. John Steinbeck
15. Isolationism
58. Ernest Hemmingway
16. WWI Reparations
59. Sinclair Lewis
17. Jazz Age
60. Langston Hughes
18. Speculation
61. Duke Ellington
19. Credit
62. Louis Armstrong
20. Buying on Margin
63. Marcus Garvey
21. New Deal (1st and 2nd)
64. W.E.B. Du Bois
22. Bank Run
65. Clarence Darrow
23. Bank Holiday
66. Sacco and Vanzetti
24. Hooverville
67. Herbert Hoover
25. Fireside Chats
68. Franklin D. Roosevelt
26. Anti-Semitism
69. Eleanor Roosevelt
27. Drought
70. Harold Ickes
28. Indian New Deal
71. Frances Perkins
29. Inequality of New Deal
72. Father Charles Coughlin
30. Keynesian Economics
73. Huey Long
31. Anarchism
74. John Maynard Keynes
32. Socialism
75. A. Philip Randolph
33. Communism
76. Mary McLeod Bethune
34. Capitalism
77. Public Works Administration
35. Red Scare
78. Civilian Conservation Corps
36. Palmer Raids
79. Tennessee Valley Authority
80. National Recovery Administration
81. Federal Housing Administration
Events and Laws
37. Teapot Dome Scandal
82. Securities and Exchange Commission
38. Scopes Trial
83. Twenty-First Amendment
39. Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
84. Works Progress Administrations
40. Washington Naval Conference (1921)
85. National Labor Relations Act (1935)
41. Kellogg-Briand Treaty (1928)
86. Social Security Act (1935)
42. Dawes Plan
87. Congress of Industrial Organizations
43. Great Depression
88. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
44. Black Tuesday
Key Questions
1. Why was there such large cultural conflict going on in the 1920s? How was the Scopes Monkey Trial a clear example of this
cultural conflict in America?
2. What factors allowed for the 1920s to really be a period of mass consumption?
3. Why was the 1920s known as the “Roaring 20s”?
4. Why did prohibition cause new problems for the US?
5. What is significant about the 1920 Census? How did this information impact society?
6. How do we know US society was anti-immigrant during the 1920s? What caused this attitude in Americans?
7. In what ways did women begin to rebuke traditional roles and expectations of women in the 1920s?
8. What were the goals of the Washington Naval Conference and the Kellogg-Briand Treaty? How were they very similar to
Wilson’s 14 Points Plan?
9. Why do some historians claim the Civil Rights Movement really began after WWI?
10. How did the Harlem Renaissance and popularity of jazz impact African-American culture in the US?
11. What problems were created with the Dawes Plan? Why was nothing ever really solved from this plan?
12. In what ways did the presidencies of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover lead to the Great Depression?
13. What factors led to the Great Depression? What role did the Stock Market Crash of 1929 play in the Great Depression?
14. How did President Hoover try to deal with the economic depression? Why didn’t it work?
15. Why did people blame Hoover for the Great Depression? Was that fair? Why or why not?
16. How did famers in the Midwest have an even tougher time during the Great Depression than most other people?
17. In what ways did Franklin Delano Roosevelt take control of the country during the Great Depression? How does this go
against much of the policies of the 3 preceding presidents?
18. Explain how Roosevelt’s “New Deal” intended to get the country out of the depression. How does this relate to the economic
theories of John Maynard Keynes?
19. What were the most significant programs created by FDR’s New Deal? What sorts of things were put in place during the New
Deal to prevent economic catastrophes like the Great Depression from happening again?
20. How did the Great Depression impact white women and different minority groups in the US? How did white women and
different minority groups benefit (or not) from the New Deal?
21. Why did people criticize FDR’s New Deal?
22. Why was FDR’s attempt to “pack the court” a big issue to some politicians?
Questions 7 – due Wednesday April 8
1. Why was the period called the Roaring Twenties?
2. What happened in the Scopes-Monkey Trial? (540)
3. Why was it difficult to enforce Prohibition? (545-546)
4. Provide the details of the 18th and 21st amendment. (545/546)
5. What did Harding mean when he called for a “return to normalcy?” (534)
6. Why was the Harlem Renaissance important? (561-562))
7. What were the common beliefs of the Lost Generation? (554)
8. Even before the majority of the country entered the depression, what group of people was in economic
during the 1920s? (571)
9. What was the basic plot of the Grapes of Wrath? Who wrote the book and why was it important? (593)
10. What economic steps did Hoover take to solve the great depression? (588-590)
11. At the beginning of the Great Depression who did desperate Americans rely on for relief? At the end of
Depression?
12. What were the fireside chats and why did FDR have them? (603)
13. How was the role of the government changed by the New Deal? (620/624)
23. How was the Second New Deal different from the First New Deal? Give 2 examples (starts on 608)