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• Timeline Questions Ch.25 pgs.716-717:

• What was banned in 1918?

• What was outlawed in 1928?

• What is significant about Warren G. Harding’s Presidential term?

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• Timeline Questions ch.26 pgs.744-745:

• When did the Great Depression start?

• Who gains power in Germany in 1933?

• What happens to the Great Plains in the 1930’s?

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• Assume the role of a World War I soldier returning from war. What would you most look forward to doing? What would make your life most “normal” again after returning home from combat?

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• Turn to page 720 and read the section on “Connecting to Today: The Stock Market.” Answer the bold question.

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• Turn to page 721 and read the section on “Viewing History” and look at the picture. Answer the bold question.

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• List 3 groups of people who you think would be hardest hit by an economic depression…make sure to include a reason for each choice.

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• Read the American Profile on pg.753, then using complete sentences, answer the question in bold

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• Read the cartoon on pg.760 then answer questions 1-3 in the Political Cartoon Skills box.

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• On pg.761 use the chart of the New Deal Programs to answer questions 1&2 in the Chart Skills box

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• Read the American Profile on pg. 767 then using complete sentences answer the question in bold.

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3.2.1 SUMMARY!WRITE DOWN :3 VOCABULARY WORDS YOU

LEARNED 2 IMPORTANT PEOPLE & 1 HISTORICAL EVENT

CONTENT OBJECTIVESCONTENT OBJECTIVES

• 2.8.32.8.3 Read and use informational tools Read and use informational tools

• 8.8.48.8.4 Explain how literature, music, and Explain how literature, music, and visual arts were a reflection of the time.visual arts were a reflection of the time.

• 8.8.58.8.5 Describe the causes and effects of the Describe the causes and effects of the Great Depression and the New Deal on life Great Depression and the New Deal on life in the United States and Nevada, including:in the United States and Nevada, including:

stock market crash, family life, Hoover stock market crash, family life, Hoover Dam, & government programs Dam, & government programs

LANGUAGE OBJECTIVESLANGUAGE OBJECTIVES

• SWBAT:SWBAT:

• Fulfill the content objectives by analyzing Fulfill the content objectives by analyzing primary sources, taking notes, and viewing primary sources, taking notes, and viewing pictures and photos.pictures and photos.

The 1920’sThe 1920’sandand

THE GREAT DEPRESSIONTHE GREAT DEPRESSIONKEY TERMSKEY TERMS

Recession BankruptCommunism PolioProhibition PensionBootleggers National DebtFad Migrant WorkerFlapper Civil RightsJazz Deport

Recession

Economic slump that is milder than a depression

Communism

Economic system in which all wealth and property are

owned by the state.

Prohibition

Ban on the manufacture , sale, and transportation of liquor anywhere in the

United States from 1920 to 1933.

Bootleggers

Person who smuggled liquor into the United States during prohibition.

Fad

Activity or fashion that is taken up with great passion

for a short time.

Flapper

Young woman in the 1920s who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting.

Jazz

Music style that developed from blues, ragtime, and other early styles.

Deport

Expel from a country

BANKRUPTBANKRUPT

Unable to pay debts

POLIOPOLIO

Highly infectious disease that causes inflammation of the nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord, leading to paralysis.

PENSIONPENSION

Sum of money paid to people on a regular basis after they retire.

NATIONAL DEBTNATIONAL DEBT

THE NATIONAL DEBT THE NATIONAL DEBT $12,838,178,590,793.46 (April 15, $12,838,178,590,793.46 (April 15,

2010) and grows $4 billion each day!2010) and grows $4 billion each day!Total sum of money that a

government owes to others.

MIGRANT WORKERMIGRANT WORKER

Person who moves from one region to Person who moves from one region to another in search of work.another in search of work.

CIVIL RIGHTSCIVIL RIGHTS

The rights due to all citizens

The 1920’s

President Harding

President Coolidge

Al Capone Flapper

Republicans in Office

• 1920 President Harding takes office

• Teapot Dome Scandal with the “Ohio Gang”

• Harding dies from a heart attack

• Calvin Coolidge takes officeSecretary of the Interior Albert Fall took a bribe in the “Teapot Dome Scandal” darkening the Presidency of Warren G. Harding. Teapot Dome is an oil field on public land in Wyoming, so named for Teapot Rock, an outcrop resembling a teapot overlooking the field. Albert fall took a $100,000 bribe from an oil company for them to drill for oil in this Wyoming area.

Coolidge Prosperity

• Coolidge believed that prosperity for all Americans depended on business

• Industry booms- rapid economic growth• People switched to consumer goods: electric

refrigerators, radios, vacuum cleaners, and other appliances

• Consumers started installment buying (buying on credit)

President Coolidge’s quiet demeanor gave him the nickname “Silent Cal”

A woman walked up to President Coolidge and said “I bet I can make you say more than two words” and Cal responded: “you lose.”

Stock Market

• Corporations sold stocks- Shares of ownership

• Stock Market had a giant boost

• Increased stock selling and rising stock prices= Bull Market

This Bull Market of the 1920s led to the crash of 1929…very similar to the prosperity of the 1990s leading to many of the problems we have today.

Prohibition

• 18th amendment banned the right to alcoholic beverages

• Bootleggers= evaded the law smuggled alcohol in to the States in their boots

• Speak-easies- illegal bars

• 21st amendment repealed prohibition

The prohibition of alcohol led to the rise of organized crime such as Al Capone (pictured left). Alcoholism was traditionally a major problem in American history but the prohibition of alcohol seemed to create more problems than it solved.

The Roaring Twenties

Fashion Fads like the “flapper”

Langston Hughes was a famous writer

Louis Armstrong was a famous jazz trumpet player

Babe Ruth was the greatest sports star of the time (and maybe of all time)

SUMMARIZE

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

• THE ECONOMIC HARD TIMES AFTER THE STOCK MARKET CRASH BETWEEN 1929-1941

•Many Americans had not shared in the prosperity of the 1920s—textile workers and coal miners, for example.

•Farmers faced hard times. Over-production kept farm prices low.

•In the mid-1920s, the economy began to slow down, but no one noticed because at that time the government did not keep detailed statistics.

When the stock market opened on Tuesday, October 29, 1929, a wild stampede of selling took place.

Stocks that had been valuable were now suddenly worthless.

This became known as Black Tuesday.

1.) OVERPRODUCTION:

• Farms and factories produced vast amounts of goods in the 1920s, but wages did not keep up with prices.

• Workers could not afford to buy many goods.

• As orders slowed, factories closed or laid off workers.

2.) WEAK BANKING SYSTEM:

• When the stock market crashed, people could not repay their loans to the bank.

• Therefore, banks couldn’t give depositors their money and banks closed.

• Between 1929 and 1932, more than 5,000 banks closed.

• Many people lost their life savings.

When factories closed, the jobless had no money for food and no land on which to grow it.

As the depression spread, unemployment soared. By the early 1930s, one in every four workers was

jobless.

• On city streets, people sold apples and pencils, shined shoes, begged for money, and picked through garbage dumps.

• Marriage and birthrates dropped.

• Some families split up. Fathers, and even children as young as 13 or 14 years old, left home.

• Jobless men and women drifted from town to town looking for work. Some “rode the rails,” living in railroad cars.

• People shared what they had. • Some families doubled up,

taking in relatives.Evicted family with belongings on street

Hoover did more to reverse hard times than any previous President, still his efforts were too little too late.

Many people still blamed the President for doing too little. They gave the name Hoovervilles to the shacks of the homeless.

Hooverville," New York City,

F.D.R.

Franklin Roosevelt was elected overwhelmingly in 1932 over President Hoover

President Roosevelt promised a “New Deal” for the American people, where the government would attempt to end the Great Depression President Roosevelt had polio,

which is a disease that inflames the spinal cord leaving its victims without full use of limbs.

The New Deal

During the first 100 days of his presidency, a never-ending stream of bills was passed, to relieve poverty, reduce unemployment, and speed economic recovery.

FDR declared a four-day bank holiday to restore the faith in the banking system (bad banks would be shut down)

The government would insure bank depositsThe government created programs to put

people to work planting forests, building ditches, roads, bridges, public buildings, parks, and airports.

THE DUST BOWL

The Dust Bowl: Texas to North DakotaTop Soil dried up high winds carried the soil

in blinding dust stormsBuried farms, killed treesYears of overgrazing cattle and plowing by

farmersFarmers became unemployed and became

“migrant farmers” who move from place to place in search of work.

(1936) A farmer and his two sons during a dust

storm in Oklahoma.

THE ARTS OF THE DEPRESSION

Many artists depicted hard times through radio, paintings, and movies.

Writing: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Told how suffering farmers moved west hoping to find

a better life in California

Movies: Filmmakers tried to restore faith in Americans Shirley Temple( 5 years old): On the Good Ship Lollipop Judy Garland: The Wizard of Oz Gone with the Wind

This painting is called “Sunday on the Farm” by Thorvald Hoyer. Although the painting is

pleasing to the eye, there is no activity going on…a theme of depression era art.

SO WHAT FINALLY ENDED THE DEPRESSION?????

(December 7, 1941) Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii starting the U.S.’s involvement in World War

II.

SUMMARIZE