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Key Terms
Boston Police Strike, Red Scare, communism, Sacco and Vanzetti, Scopes Trial, assembly line, flapper, jazz, prohibition, Great Migration, buying on margin, credit, Herbert Hoover, Black Tuesday, Great Depression, foreclosure, Dust Bowl, Hooverville, Hoover Dam, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), Eleanor Roosevelt, New Deal, Social Security, FDIC, SEC, TVA, WPA, National Labor Relations Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, Black Cabinet

Students will understand that…
*There is a virtually constant tension in America between progressive ideas and traditional values. *Divisions of American society by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic class often lead to conflict. *Banks and the stock market play vital roles in the American economy. *Consumers and investors must evaluate the risk involved in their economic transactions. *There is an unresolved debate about the impact the government can have on the cyclical nature of a free-market economy.

Students will know…
*The 1920s was a decade of peace, prosperity, social change, and cultural conflict. *The fear of communism and its potential spread to the United States, The Red Scare, occurred in response to the 1917 communist revolution in Russia. *The Red Scare triggered a larger fear of foreigners and anti-American activists. *There was widespread post-war labor unrest, including over 3,000 strikes involving over 4 million workers nationwide. *In the early 20th century, thousands of African-Americans left the southern United States to escape racial discrimination and pursue jobs in northern cities. *In the 1920s, many Americans began using credit to buy new consumers products and invest in the stock market. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*A slow down in consumer demand along with investor panic led to a stock market crash that set into motion an economic crisis known as the Great Depression. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*The Great Depression lasted the decade of the 1930s and was characterized by bank, farm, and business failures, extremely high unemployment, homelessness, a lack of consumer confidence, and a slowdown in global trade. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt had vastly different ideas about the role of the federal government in America. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*Eleanor Roosevelt revolutionized the role of First Lady by bringing to the forefront certain social issues and by traveling the country as a representative of her husband. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*The New Deal was the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration's attempt to use government programs to lift the country out of the Great Depression and create a system to avoid future collapses of the economy. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*There were critics of the New Deal on the left and the right, some of whom believed that it did not go far enough and others who believed in went too far. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*The effectiveness of the New Deal is still being debated today, but the legacies are clearly seen in programs that have remained in existence, such as Social Security. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*The end of the Great Depression occurred due to the industrial manufacturing boom brought about by the onset of World War II.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Students will be able to...
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*Describe how the roles of women changed in the 1920s <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*List the problems associated with prohibition <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*Describe the culture of the 1920s <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*Analyze the Sacco and Vanzetti court case and explain why Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent or guilty <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*Explain how the stock market crashed in 1929 and how it affected Americans <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*Identify the effects of the Great Depression on the American people <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*Explain the differences in philosophies and policies between President Hoover and President Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*Describe how the programs of the New Deal helped to solve the problems of the Great Depression

United States Presidents - 1920s

 * [[image:http://www.shmoop.com/media/images/large/warren-g.-harding.jpg width="306" height="419" caption="Warren Harding 1921-1923 died in office"]] ||
 * Warren Harding 1921-1923 died in office ||


 * [[image:http://www.shmoop.com/media/images/original/coolidge.jpg width="401" height="292" caption="Calvin Coolidge 1923- 1929"]] ||
 * Calvin Coolidge 1923- 1929 ||


 * [[image:http://www.entmoney.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Herbert_Hoover.jpeg width="317" height="390" caption="Herbert Hoover 1929 - 1933"]] ||
 * Herbert Hoover 1929 - 1933 ||

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