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Test ReviewThe Twenties and Thirties:
Jazz Age to Depression
20s Topics
Bull Market Great Migration Consumerism Flappers Prohibition Bootlegging Al Capone Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age
20s Topics
The Lost Generation Republican Dominated Teapot Dome Scandal—Harding Charles Lindbergh Babe Ruth Model T and Model A Scopes Monkey Trial
30s Topics
Bear Market Dust bowl Okies migrated to California Democratic Party dominated New Deal FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt Prohibition repealed Depression ‘Brother, can you spare a dime?’
30s topics
Fireside chats Court packing scheme Dorothea Lange photos Hoovervilles
New Deal Programs
CCC—boys build camps
NYA—jobs for youth
SEC—oversees securities
Social Security—retirement money
New Deal
WPA—work for artists and musicians
FDIC—insures bank deposits
TVA—gave electricity to Tennessee Valley
New Deal
PWA—public works (roads etc)
AAA—agriculture—helped farmers
NRA—helped businesses
FHA--housing
Harding and Harlem
Teapot Dome Scandal Almost impeached Died in office Coolidge became president
Harlem Renaissance—Langston Hughes
Red Scare—20s
Fear of communists
America was isolationist
We did not sign the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations
Mass Media of 20s
Newspapers
Movies
Radio
tabloids
Causes of Depression
Overproduction Underconsumption Unemployment Buying stocks on the margin Bad bank loans Stock Market Crash—Black Monday--
Oct. 28, 1929
Hoover
Laissez-faire Hoovervilles Hoover blankets Republican President Believed in rugged individualism
Depression
Stock market crash Breadlines and soup kitchens Hoover blankets and Hoovervilles Bank holiday First 100 days
FDR
Polio—biggest challenge Democrat New Deal— ‘relief, recovery and reform’ Eleanor—first lady Election of 32—landslide ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear
itself’ Liberal—promoted government programs Brain trust—special advisors
New Deal Criticisms
Record deficits ($)
Court packing scheme
Changed the way we view government today—good or bad
Dust Bowl
Grapes of Wrath Migrant workers Okies to California Cesar Chavez—leader of migrant
workers in 1960s and 1970s
Essay
Write a paragraph contrasting the 20s to the 30s
Suggested vocabulary:prosperity, depression, stock market, Republicans, Democrats, rugged individualism, New Deal, programs, prohibition, Jazz Age, Dust Bowl, names of politicians or heroes