The 1920s and 1930s
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• Americans cashed in victory
bonds from World War I
• Credit
& Installment
Buying
Give
one reason
why the
American
grew so
rapidly
in the
• economy
New consumer
goods
became
available 1920s?
• Low regulation & laissez-faire
made it cheap to do business
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People went on Sunday drives instead of going to
church.
• Young men & women had more freedom from their
parents.
one way
that the automobile
• Name
Suburbanization
increases.
• Car
related industries
& businesses
expand (Ex.
influenced
American
society
OR
sheet metal, rubber, glass, restaurants, garages, etc.)
the
economy
in
the
1920s.
• Ford paid his workers well… improved conditions for
workers
• Some people bought cars on credit when they really
couldn’t afford them
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The “New Woman” or “flapper”
How
became
did some
the ideal
women
of style.
challenge
Some
traditional
women wore
behavioral
pants, showed
norms in
skin,
the
drank alcohol,
1920s?
smoked, swore,
had sex before marriage, etc.
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• Harlem Renaissance: The outpouring
of African-American art, literature &
music in the 1920s
• Causes:
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
(1) The Great Migration helped spread
AND What factors caused it?
ideas & culture
(2) Wealthy white patrons provided
money for African-American
authors, artists, & musicians
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1) Companies used “branding” to sell
products.
2) Psychologists helped advertisers
Name two ways that advertising
3) Advertisers used celebrities like
changed in the 1920s?
Babe Ruth to endorse their
products.
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• The Scopes “Monkey” Trial in which
Name
a teacher
one was
event
convicted
that demonstrated
for teaching
evolution
the importance
in Tennessee
of Christian
• The
Fundamentalism
rise of radio evangelists
in the 1920s.
(preachers) like Billy Sunday
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The 18th Amendment prohibited the production,
distribution or consumption of alcohol.
1. Christian Fundamentalists thought alcohol was
evil
Why was the 18th Amendment
2. Groups like the Women’s Christian
enacted?
Temperance Union
thought it led to domestic
violence & wasted a family’s money
3. During World War I, saving grain was seen as
patriotic
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Nativism = Anti-Immigrant Feeling
1. The Quota Acts (National Origins Act)
limited immigration, and especially
discriminated against the “new
immigrants” from southern and eastern
Give
one
example
of
Nativism
in
the
Europe.
1920s?
2. Membership in the
Ku Klux Klan soared in
the North.
3. Italian Immigrants Sacco & Vanzetti were
executed for murder despite weak evidence
against them.
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AllWhat
are arguably
did the Palmer
examples
Raids,
of thethe
Red
deportation
Scare (the fear
of radical
of Communism
immigrants,
and
and
other
the
radical
trial of
ideologies
Sacco &after
Vanzetti
the
1917
have
Russian
in common?
Revolution)
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Both were Republicans who favored
Describe
low taxation,
the policies
low government
of Presidents
spending,
Hardingand
anda Coolidge.
laissez-faire
approach to managing the economy.
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Which group was left out of most of
Farmers generally saw crop prices
the economic prosperity of the
decline after World War I.
1920s?
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Rising stock prices were caused by…
• Ease of credit (buying “on margin”)
• Lack of accurate information about
Name one reasons why stock prices
the true value of companies the
were able to go so high in the
stock represented.
1920s.
• Psychology of expansion caused by
the belief that the market could rise
forever.
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Hoover did little because he did not
believe it was the proper role of the
How did President Hoover respond
federal government. He called on
to the Great
Depression?
Americans
to solve
their own
problems through “self-reliance.”
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Because many stocks were
purchased “on margin” (with
loans), banks lost money. As a
How did the problems in the stock
result, some banks could not pay
market spread to the banking
back depositors, which led to
sector?
“Bank Runs” in which masses of
people rushed to banks to
demand their money.
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Domestic demand began to drop after
Americans had already purchased much
of want they needed.
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Why did demand for American
goods drop off so dramatically in
Foreign demand dropped off when
the late 1920s?
American investors stopped lending
money to Europeans (who then could not
afford to buy American goods).
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Fear was literally making the
Why was Franklin D. Roosevelt
economy worse when panic led
correct when he stated that
people irrationally sell stock, pull all
Americans had “nothing to fear
their money out of the bank, or
but
fear
itself.”
hoard cash rather than spend it.
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The Federal Emergency Banking Relief Act
declared a “Bank Holiday” during which
banks would close. They could only be
How
did
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
help
re-opened after government inspectors
stabilize
the banking
industry?
declared
them safe.
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(Give two ways.)
The FDIC began insuring bank deposits.
This helped prevent future “bank runs.”
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• CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
•Name
WPA TWO
(Works
New
Progress
Deal programs that
Administration)
helped create jobs?
• TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
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It set codes for various industries,
What did NIRA (National Industrial
setting prices, wages, and other
Recovery Act) do?
conditions of production.
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The Democratic Party ended up
getting support from the following
groups: workers (exp. Union
members), farmers, AfricanHow did the New Deal change
Americans & other ethnic minorities,
American politics?
and southern whites… This gave the
party an advantage in elections for
the next 30-40 years.
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• Relief: Helping people survive the
depression.
What
• Recovery:
were the
Ending
threethe
R’scurrent
of the New
depression faster.
Deal?
• Reform: Preventing future
depressions.
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Under President Harding… The
Secretary of Interior took bribes
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal
from Mammouth Oil company in
about?
exchange for allowing them to
extract oil from government land.
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1. Langston Hughes
2. Claude McKay
Name two writers of the Harlem
3. Zora Neale Hurston
Renaissance.
4. Countee Cullen
5. And many others…
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1. The Executive branch had drawn
too much power to itself when it
What
did
the
Supreme
Court
rule
in
set industrial codes under the
the
case
Schecter
Poultry
National Industrial Recovery Act.
Corporation v. U.S.
2. Consequently, NIRA was
unconstitutional.
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He wanted to “pack” the court with
supporters by getting Congress
How did Franklin D. Roosevelt try to
to expand the number of justices
get around the Supreme Court?
that could serve on the Supreme
Court.
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• Lost Generation: Group of American writers
who lived abroad in the 1920s and wrote
literature
was the
“Lost
• What
Their writing
reflected
theGeneration?”
trauma of World
Write
Your
What
themes
appeared
in Lost
War I. Some of it was dark & depressing,
while
other
parts
emphasized
living Name
for the
Generation
literature.
AND
Final
Challenge
day and partying without worrying about
one
author
that
belonged
to
this
consequences. Wager
group.
• Lost generation writers
include T.S. Elliot,
TIME’S
Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott
UP!
Fitzgerald and others.
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Teacher’s Name