Topic 9 Study Guide from the Era of Excess to the Crash

US History Topic 9 Study Guide – From the Era of Excess to the Crash Notes –Prohibition and Its Effects, Life in the Roaring Twenties, the Pitfalls of Prosperity, New Deal – New Era Readings – The Roaring 20s: Culture and Headlines of the 1920s; 1920s cultural webquest; Langston Hughes poetry; Intro to the Great Depression

Names to Know  Sigmund Freud  Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti  William J. Simmons  William Jennings Bryan  John J. Scopes  Clarence Darrow  Charles Lindbergh  Henry Ford  “Scarface” Al Capone  Elliot Ness  F. Scott Fitzgerald  Claude McKay  Langston Hughes  Aaron Douglas  Douglas Fairbanks  Charlie Chaplain  Calvin Coolidge  Warren G. Harding  Stepin Fetchit  Louis Armstrong  Ella Fitzgerald  Marcel Duchamps  Queen Victoria  Hattie McDaniel  Marcus Garvey  W.E.B. Dubois  Oscar DePriest  Herbert Hoover  Franklin Delano Roosevelt  Huey Long  Father Charles Coughlin  Eleanor Roosevelt  John Steinbeck

Vocabulary  Corset  “In the Family Way”  Temperance  Racketeers  18th Amendment  21st Amendment  Nativism  Laissez-faire  “on the margin”  “Tin Lizzie”  Speculation  Catharsis  Bull Market  Bear Market  Pinko  Progressive  Conservative  Deficit spending  Foreclosure  Surplus

Concepts & Multiple Choice  Comstock Law  Nativism  Emergency Immigration Act  Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, reasons for decline  militant fundamentalism  Scopes “Monkey Trial”  Booms in the 1920s  Temperance Movement  Volstead Act  cultural trends during Prohibition  “speakeasies”  racketeering, bootlegging  St. Valentine’s Day Massacre  results of prohibition  cosmopolitan culture of the 1920s  Jazz music/culture  the New Morality  “New Feminism”  flappers  changing views of marriage  results of Great Migration  Harlem Renaissance  Negro Nationalism  effects of the Ballyhoo Years (as factors of the Great Depression)  reasons for a slumping economy  Black Tuesday and its results  human toll of the Depression  Hoover’s “non-response”  domino effect from Europe (reparations payments)  Bonus Army  “New Deal” 3-Prong Attack  “Interregnum of Despair”  changing views of federal govt’s role in the economy  21st Amendment  National Recovery Act (NRA)  Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)  Works Project Association (WPA)  Agricultural Adjustment Act  Welfare Capitalism  Social Security Act  Court Stacking  Share Our Wealth  Reasons and consequences of the Dust Bowl  Oakie Migration  FDR’s “brain trust”

Short Essay (1-3 Paragraphs, with a THESIS)  Prohibition o Background/Reasons? o Effectiveness? o Difficulty of Enforcement?  Roaring Twenties o Changes in culture? o Changes in style? o Changes for women and blacks? o Reflected in music, art, poetry?  Great Depression o Causes? o Effects on Americans? Industry? o Govt efforts to fix the problem?