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Prosperity and Depression

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KEY TOPICS
  • "return to normalcy" 
  • nativism​
  • The Roaring 20s
  • Prohibition
  • Harlem Renaissance
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THE ROARING TWENTIES

"It was the best of times..."  Following World War I, America's economy prospered as if the sky were the limit.  In this extravagant decade, many Americans prospered and enjoyed the growing economy.
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Vocabulary - "return to normalcy", Red Scare, flapper, Prohibition, speakeasies & bootleggers, Fundamentalism, Harlem Renaissance                                                                                                                 Warren G. Harding, Sacco and Vanzetti, Margaret Sanger, F. Scott Fitzgerald & Ernest Hemingway, Al Capone, Duke Ellington, Louie Armstrong, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neal Hurston

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KEY TOPICS
  • consumer trends
  • laissez-faire economics
  • Black Tuesday
  • The Great Depression
  • Dust Bowl
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BOOM AND BUST: THE GREAT DEPRESSION

"...It was the worst of times."  The economic bubble of the Roaring Twenties pops, causing millions to suffer financial ruin and unprecedented unemployment in the most desperate times in the history of the United States.
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Vocabulary - laissez-faire economics, supply-side economics, Black Tuesday (Oct. 29, 1929), bank runs, Hawley-Smoot Tariff, The Great Depression, soup kitchens & bread lines, Bonus Army, Hooverville/flags/blankets, Dust Bowl                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover

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KEY TOPICS
  • First Hundred Days
  • The New Deal
  • Critics of the New Deal 
  • The Second New Deal
  • Court Packing
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ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL

To deal with the problems brought on by the Great Depression, newly elected President Roosevelt develops numerous programs, collectively known as the New Deal, to help stabilize the nation and begin the process of recovery.
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Vocabulary - New Deal, CCC, TVA, AAA, SEC, FDIC, PWA, 21st Amendment, deficit spending, WPA, National Labor Relations Act, Social Security Act, Court Parking Plan, Fair Labor Standards Act                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Franklin D. Roosevelt, Huey Long, Frances Perkins
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  • American History
    • American History I >
      • Unit 1 - Worlds Collide
      • Unit 2 - Adolescent Colonies
      • Unit 3 - Seeds of Rebellion
      • Unit 4 - Revolutionary America
      • Unit 5 - The New Nation
      • Unit 6 - Expansion and Reform
      • Unit 7 - Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
      • Unit 8 - The Great West
    • American History II >
      • Unit 9 - The Gilded Age
      • Unit 10 - The Progressive Era
      • Unit 11 - The American Empire
      • Unit 12 - Prosperity and Depression
      • Unit 13 - World War II
      • Unit 14 - Cold War Tensions
      • Unit 15 - Conflicts and Resolutions
      • Unit 16 - Modern America
  • World History
    • Early History >
      • Unit I - Origins
      • Unit II - Ancient Greece
      • Unit III - Rise and Fall of Rome
      • Unit IV - The Age of Faith
      • Unit V - Late Medieval World
      • Unit VI - Renaissance and Discovery
    • Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Crisis of Faith
      • Unit VIII - Revolutionary World
      • Unit IX - Industrial Imperialism
      • Unit X - The Great War
      • Unit XI - World War II
      • Unit XII - Cold War & Globalization
    • *NEW* under construction >
      • Unit 1 - State Building in the Global Tapestry
      • Unit 2 - Networks of Exchange
      • Unit 3 - Land-Based Empires
      • Unit 4 - Transoceanic Interconnections
      • Unit 5 - Revolutions
      • Unit 6 - Consequences of Industrialization
      • Unit 7 - Global Conflicts
      • Unit 8 - Cold War and Decolonization
      • Unit 9 - Globalization
  • AP European History
    • Early Modern History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
    • Late Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Civic Literacy