Goal 9 - Prosperity and Depression
Prosperity and Depression (1919-1939) - The learner will appraise economic, social, and political changes of the decades "The Twenties" and "The Thirties."
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Objective 9.01
Objective 9.02
Objective 9.03
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Objective 9.04
Objective 9.05
9.01 Elaborate on the cycle of economic boom and bust in the 1920's and 1930's. 9.02 Analyze the extent of prosperity for different segments of society during this period. 9.03 Analyze the significance of social, intellectual, and technological changes of lifestyles in the United States. 9.04 Describe challenges to traditional practices in religion, race, and gender. 9.05 Assess the impact of New Deal reforms in enlarging the role of the federal government in American life.
- The impact of presidential policies on economic activity (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Roosevelt) - Rise and/or decline of major industries in the United States - Factors leading to the stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression
* �Return to Normalcy� * laissez-faire * Teapot Dome scandal * Albert Fall * Hawley-Smoot Tariff * Speculation * Buying on the margin * Mechanization * �Black Tuesday� * Rugged individualism * Direct relief
- Consumer spending habit and trends - Difficulties of farmers - Response to Prosperity: the stock market crash, Dust Bowl, Bonus Army march and bank failures on various groups of the population
* Easy credit * Installment plan * Overproduction * Hoovervilles * Soup kitchens * Breadlines
- The impact of mass media - Public response to the Great Depression - The Harlem Renaissance - Prohibition - Leisure time and spectator sports
* Radio * Market/advertising * Jazz * Silent and �talkies� films * �The Jazz Singer� * Lost Generation * Langston Hughes * Louis Armstrong * F. Scott Fitzgerald * Ernest Hemingway * Sinclair Lewis * Speakeasies * Bootleggers * Babe Ruth * Charles Lindbergh * Automobiles * FDR�s �Fireside Chats�
- The �Back to Africa� movement and Pan-Africanism - The Fundamentalist versus Freethinking movement - Religion in politics - The changing role of women
* Zora Neal Hurston * Marcus Garvey * United Negro Improvement Association * Fundamentalism * Scopes Trial * Aimee Semple McPherson * Billy Sunday * Margaret Sanger
- Responses to the New Deal program - The Three R�s (Relief, Recovery, Reform) - Expansion of the role of federal government
* Deficit spending * Social Security * Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) * Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) * Public Works Administration (PWA) * Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) * Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) * Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) * National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) * Works Progress Administration (WPA)