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
Ø Sigmund Freud
Ø Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Ø William J. Simmons
Ø William Jennings Bryan
Ø John J. Scopes
Ø Clarence Darrow
Ø Charles Lindbergh
Ø Henry Ford
Ø “Scarface” Al Capone
Ø Elliot Ness
Ø F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ø Claude McKay
Ø Langston Hughes
Ø Aaron Douglas
Ø Douglas Fairbanks
Ø Charlie Chaplain
Ø Calvin Coolidge
Ø Warren G. Harding
Ø Stepin Fetchit
Ø Louis Armstrong
Ø Ella Fitzgerald
Ø Marcel Duchamps
Ø Queen Victoria
Ø Hattie McDaniel
Ø Marcus Garvey
Ø W.E.B. Dubois
Ø Oscar DePriest
Ø Herbert Hoover
Ø Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ø Huey Long
Ø Father Charles Coughlin
Ø Eleanor Roosevelt
Ø John Steinbeck
Vocabulary
Ø Corset
Ø “In the Family Way”
Ø Temperance
Ø Racketeers
Ø 18th Amendment
Ø 21st Amendment
Ø Nativism
Ø Laissez-faire
Ø “on the margin”
Ø “Tin Lizzie”
Ø Speculation
Ø Catharsis
Ø Bull Market
Ø Bear Market
Ø Pinko
Ø Progressive
Ø Conservative
Ø Deficit spending
Ø Foreclosure
Ø Surplus
Concepts & Multiple Choice
Ø Comstock Law
Ø Nativism
Ø Emergency Immigration Act
Ø Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, reasons for decline
Ø militant fundamentalism
Ø Scopes “Monkey Trial”
Ø Booms in the 1920s
Ø Temperance Movement
Ø Volstead Act
Ø cultural trends during Prohibition
Ø “speakeasies”
Ø racketeering, bootlegging
Ø St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Ø results of prohibition
Ø cosmopolitan culture of the 1920s
Ø Jazz music/culture
Ø the New Morality
Ø “New Feminism”
Ø flappers
Ø changing views of marriage
Ø results of Great Migration
Ø Harlem Renaissance
Ø Negro Nationalism
Ø effects of the Ballyhoo Years (as factors of the Great Depression)
Ø reasons for a slumping economy
Ø Black Tuesday and its results
Ø human toll of the Depression
Ø Hoover’s “non-response”
Ø domino effect from Europe (reparations payments)
Ø Bonus Army
Ø “New Deal” 3-Prong Attack
Ø “Interregnum of Despair”
Ø changing views of federal govt’s role in the economy
Ø 21st Amendment
Ø National Recovery Act (NRA)
Ø Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Ø Works Project Association (WPA)
Ø Agricultural Adjustment Act
Ø Welfare Capitalism
Ø Social Security Act
Ø Court Stacking
Ø Share Our Wealth
Ø Reasons and consequences of the Dust Bowl
Ø Oakie Migration
Ø FDR’s “brain trust”
Short Essay (1-3 Paragraphs, with a THESIS)
Ø Prohibition
o Background/Reasons?
o Effectiveness?
o Difficulty of Enforcement?
Ø Roaring Twenties
o Changes in culture?
o Changes in style?
o Changes for women and blacks?
o Reflected in music, art, poetry?
Ø Great Depression
o Causes?
o Effects on Americans? Industry?
o Govt efforts to fix the problem?