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People to Know
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Vocabulary
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Peardeck™
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Unit Guide

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.
KEY TOPICS
  • "return to normalcy" 
  • nativism​
  • The Roaring 20s
  • Prohibition
  • Harlem Renaissance
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Notes
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Visual Aids
Ms. Esakov    Ms. Frazier
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Videos - Coming Soon
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

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.
KEY TOPICS
  • consumer trends
  • laissez-faire economics
  • Black Tuesday
  • The Great Depression
  • Dust Bowl
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Visual Aids
Ms. Esakov    Ms. Frazier
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Videos - Coming Soon
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

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.
KEY TOPICS
  • First Hundred Days
  • The New Deal
  • Critics of the New Deal 
  • The Second New Deal
  • Court Packing
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Visual Aids
Ms. Esakov    Ms. Frazier
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Videos
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