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Unit 12

The Roaring 20’s and the Great Depression

“from Boom to Bust”

Chapter 19.3 and Chapter 20

Test:

A-Day: 3/28/19

B-Day: 4/1/19

Click Here to Access Book Section 19.3

(go to page 16/22)

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Click Here to Access Book Chapter 20

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Unit 12 Daily Activities and Agendas

  • 3/18/19 and 3/19/19
    • Roaring 20’s Videos and Video Questions
  • 3/20/19 and 3/21/19
    • Unit Introduction and Notes
    • Unit 12 Vocabulary Story
  • 3/22/19 and 3/25/19
    • Complete Unit 12 Vocabulary Story
  • 3/26/19 and 3/27/19
    • Complete Unit 12 Notes
    • New Deal Handout and Unit 12 Study Guide
  • 3/29/19 and 4/1/19
    • Unit 12 Test Day

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3/19 Agenda

Agenda:

  • 1920’s Video Questions Handout (Videos on Slide #5)
  • Choose one word from your Unit 12 Vocab list and create a vocab graffiti square for it (WORD,definition,picture). If you don’t have a words list you can scroll to the bottom of the Unit 12 Webpage.

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3/19

  • Go to Slide #5 of this PowerPoint and answer watch the 4 videos to answer the questions on the handout provided.

1920’s Video Questions Link to 1920's Video Questions

    • Use the videos on the next slide to answer the questions on your video handout.

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SLIDE #4

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1920’s Videos

Video 1

Video 3

Video 4

Video 2

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3/27/19 Warm-Up

Complete the New Deal Handout. Use SLIDE 29 of the Unit 12 PowerPoint. If you don’t have a chromebook, use the blue book page 456 for assistance.

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1920’s Vocabulary Story

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_c5vbcNCaTbzFGktlNWNsqRumemwg9kYQ0Wy-7HttpM/edit?usp=sharing

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SLIDE 7

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Post World War I America

  • Most Americans wanted to return to neutrality.

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  • America becomes a world superpower.
    • Americans experience good times and great changes.

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Americans Gain Rights

  • Native Americans
    • Granted citizenship
    • Given constitutional rights like the right to vote.
  • African Americans
    • Creation of the NAACP (W.E.B. Dubois)
    • Fought for the rights of African Americans
  • Women
    • 1920-U.S. Government passes the 19th Amendment (Suffrage)
    • Flappers

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American Heroes of the 1920’s

  • Babe Ruth
    • Baseball Player (Boston Red Sox & New York Yankees)

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  • Charles Lindbergh
    • Flew the Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic.

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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • Author of The Great Gatsby

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  • Louis Armstrong
    • African American Jazz Musician

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African American Progress

  • Millions of African Americans move to northern big cities.
    • Increase in job opportunities.

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  • Harlem Renaissance
    • Highlighted the cultural achievements of African Americans.
      • Literacy and the arts.
    • Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington

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The Red Scare

  • Communists take control in Russia.
    • Many fear the same will happen in America.

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  • People were accused of being Communist without any evidence.

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Immigration Reform

  • Americans feared that immigrants would spread Communism or take jobs from Americans.

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  • Government sets limits on the number of immigrants allowed to enter the country.
    • Chinese immigrants were not allowed to enter.

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Prohibition

  • The ban on alcohol leads to an increase in crime.
    • Bootleggers manufacture alcohol illegally.
      • Most famous was Al Capone.

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    • Speakeasies were places where people could drink in secrecy,

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  • Since most people disagreed with prohibition, it was impossible to the U.S. Government to enforce.
    • 21st Amendment repeals Prohibition

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The Scopes Trial

  • Tennessee passed a law making it illegal to teach evolution.
    • John Scopes does anyway.

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  • Scopes was found guilty and fined $100.

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Unit 12 Part II

The Great Depression

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Weaknesses In the Economy

  • Many families still earned very little money.
    • Could only afford to buy new products on credit.

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  • People began to go further into debt and could no longer make their monthly payments.

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The Great Bull Market of the 20’s

  • People want to share in manufacturer's profits by buying stocks.
    • Buy stocks on margin.

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  • Problem: when stock values fall, people don’t have money to pay back the loan.

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The Crash of 1929

  • Stock values begin to drop as companies profits decreased.

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  • Everyone wants to sell their stocks quickly so they could pay their margins.
    • Stock prices drop dramatically.

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  • On October 29th, the stock markets collapses
    • Black Tuesday

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The Great Depression Begins

  • People want to withdraw their savings from the bank to pay the debt.
    • Banks have no money and many close.

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  • People stop buying new goods and many businesses are forced to close.

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President Herbert Hoover

  • Makes small, unsuccessful attempts to help solve the nation's problems.
    • Many of his solutions actually made problems worse.

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  • Many people become homeless and form small clusters of shacks.
    • Hoovervilles

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Effect of Americans

  • Farms foreclosed, no more luxuries, businesses shut down, banks closed and schools close.

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  • Many people had to wait in long lines for bread to feed their families.

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The Dust Bowl

  • A drought and over farming leads to a massive dust bowl.

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  • Many houses were buried no crops were being produced.

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  • Worst natural disaster of the 20th century.

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The Bonus Army

  • 20,000 WWI Veterans march on Washington D.C demanding that they receive their bonus earlier than expected.

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  • Hoover has U.S. Army remove them.

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  • Causes people to hate Hoover even more.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Becomes president in 1932.

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  • Pledges to tackle the problems caused by the Great Depression.
    • Became known as the New Deal.

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  • Eleanor Roosevelt
    • First Lady
    • Fought for women's rights.

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Roosevelt’s New Deal

  • Believed that it was important to give hope to Americans

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  • Gave talks over the radio telling people that things would get better.
    • Fireside Chats

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  • Closed the banks for 4 days.
    • “Bank Holiday” to restore hope in banks.

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The Hundred Days

  • Roosevelt believed that it was the government's responsibility to help the needy.
    • Different from Hoover!

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  • Calls a special session of congress in which a bulk of the New Deal programs were passed.
    • Goals: Relief, Recovery, Reforms.

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Social Security Act

  • Intended to help the elderly, laid off and disabled workers and needy with children.

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  • Roosevelt runs for reelection
    • Many fear he will raise taxes more.
    • Wins election because working-class and African Americans support FDR.

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New Deal Programs

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Warm-Up: Practice NCFE in SCHOOLNET

Go to SCHOOLNET, put in code below. Do not click start test until I tell you to do so.

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TEST CODE:

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WY8DY2SA4

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Unit 12 Test Day

  • Warm-Up: Study for your Test (last slide of PowerPoint helps)
  • Take the Unit 12 Between the Wars Test
  • Unit 12 Test Corrections (DO ALL 3 COLUMNS correctly)
  • Unit 13 Cover Page:
    • Unit 13
    • WWII
    • No Test Date

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3/29/19 A-Day --- 1 Assignment/Study Hall Day

Your 1 Assignment today is to watch the following U.S. History Review video and complete the handout. (GO TO SLIDE 32 and CLICK THE LINK FOR THE VIDEO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49oo1zCgy3Y

After your “1 Assignment” you must make sure you have the following done:

  • 1920’s Vocab Story printed out, completed, vocab and slang words highlighted
  • Your Unit 12 Test Corrections

If you have all of the above assignments completed you may sit back and enjoy the Roaring 20’s/Great Depression Era Film

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Answers to Unit 12 Study Guide

Click Here for Study Guide Answers