Competency Goal 9: Prosperity and Depression (1919-1939) - the Learner Will Appraise The

Competency Goal 9: Prosperity and Depression (1919-1939) - The learner will appraise the economic, social, and political changes of the decades of “The Twenties” and “The Thirties.”

Objective 9.01: Elaborate on the cycle of economic boom and bust in the 1920s and 1930s.

Essential Questions:

• How did the economic, social, and political events of the early 1900s lead to the economic cycles of the twenties and thirties?

• How did the variations in the economy in the 1920s cause major changes in that decade and in the 1930s?

• How did early government reactions to the economic bust serve to worsen its effects?

Warren G. Harding

“Return to Normalcy”

Teapot Dome scandal

Albert Fall

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Calvin Coolidge

Speculation

Buying on margin

“Black Tuesday”

Herbert Hoover

Direct relief

Rugged individualism

Objective 9.02: Analyze the extent of prosperity for different segments of society during this period.

Essential Questions:

• How were different groups of people affected by the business cycles of the 1920s and 1930s?

• How do economic changes impact society?

• Why and how does economic prosperity vary so much from one segment of society to the next?

Business cycle

Easy credit

Installment plan

Overproduction

Hoovervilles

Soup kitchens

Breadlines

Bonus Army

Dust Bowl

Objective 9.03: Analyze the significance of social, intellectual and technological changes of lifestyle in the United States.

Essential Questions:

• How do technological and social changes impact American traditions?

• To what extent should the federal government attempt to effect economic and social change?

• What should the role of the federal government be in the economic and social lives of its citizens?

• What long term effects did the New Deal have on the United States?

Jazz

Louis Armstrong

Silent films and “talkies”

The Jazz Singer

Lost Generation

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ernest Hemingway

Sinclair Lewis

Prohibition

Speakeasies

Bootleggers

Babe Ruth

Charles Lindbergh

Automobiles

Marketing/advertising

Radio

FDR’s “Fireside Chats”

Objective 9.04: Describe challenges to traditional practices in religion, race, and gender.

Essential Questions:

• How were government programs in the 1920s and 30s a challenge to traditional practices in religion, race, and gender?

• How does conflict promote change in a nation’s identity?

• To what degree did America experience social progress during the 1920s and 30s?

• How was America changed the 1920s and 30s?

Ku Klux Klan

Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston

Marcus Garvey

“Back to Africa” Movement

United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

W.E.B. Du Bois

1924 Native American Suffrage Act

Sacco and Vanzetti

Scopes Trial

Aimee Semple McPherson

Billy Sunday

Margaret Sanger

Flappers

Objective 9.05: Assess the impact of the New Deal reforms in enlarging the role of the federal government in American life.

Essential Questions:

• How did the role of the federal government change during the 1920s ands 30s?

• Is it appropriate for the government to be involved in social and economic change?

• To what degree did America change positively or negatively during the 1920s and 30s?

• Why did citizens allow the federal government to increase its power during the Great Depression, and how did it impact the future of the

nation?

Deficit Spending

Social Security

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

Public Works Administration (PWA)

TennesseeValley Authority (TVA)

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)

Fair Labor Standards Act

Father Charles Coughlin

Huey P. Long

Frances Perkins