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Market Dust bowl Okies migrated to California Democratic Party dominated New Deal FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt Prohibition repealed Depression ‘Brother, can you spare a dime?’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