The New Deal

Wed/Mon. 5/18-23: Read 770-778
Tuesday. 5/24: Read 778-791
Wed/Thrs, 5/25-26: Read 791-799
Friday, 5/27: Test

Big Questions
1. What factors and events caused the Great Depression?
2. Why was FDR such a successful politician? Why was Hoover a failure?
3. Describe the differences between the First, Second, and Third New Deals.
4. Describe the new Democratic coalition created by FDR?
5. How did the war New Deal affect the labor movement?
6. How did the New Deal change government?
7. Why did the FDR’s “court-packing” scheme fail?
8. How did the New Deal affect African Americans?
9. What is Keynesian economics?

Know the significance of the following:

New Deal Programs: Emergency Banking Relief Act; Glass-Steagall Act.; Agricultural Adjustment Act; Tennessee Valley Authority; Rural Electrification Administration; Truth in Securities Act; Public Works Administration; Works Progress Administration; Resettlement Administration

Economics: Roosevelt Recession; John Maynard Keynes

Labor: Wagner Act; National Labor Relations Board; AFL; CIO; John L. Lewis; Trade union; Industrial Union; UAW; Sit-down strike;

Politics: FDR; Al Smith; Herbert Hoover; Fr. Coughlin; Dr. Townsend; Huey Long; Court-packing scheme

The Politics of Boom and Bust

 Fri/Mon 5/13-16:  Conservativism Returns: Read 746-760
1. Why were conservative Republicans more successful in the 1920s than the previous decade?
2. How did they change the direction of domestic and foreign policy?
3. What were thepolitical scandals of the period?
4. What happened to the money that American banks loaned to Europe?

Tuesday 5/17:  Hoover and The Great Depression: Read 760-768
1. Why did the economy crash in 1929?
2. How did Hoover react?
3. How successful was he in solving the crisis?

Cultural Change & Conflict 1920s

Tues/Wed, 5/3-4: Read 720-731 Cultural Conflict in the 1920s 1. How did World War I affect the political climate of the 1920s, especially for socialists?
2. In what ways did the 1920s see a rise in nationalism and what were the results of this rise?
3. Why was prohibition finally enacted?  What were the results?
4. In what ways was this a era a period of cultural conflict between traditionalists and modernists?

Thrs, 5/5 Read 732-745.  The Birth of Mass Culture
1. What were the prevailing political moods, policies, and issues of the 1920s?
2. How did consumerism and “mass culture” affect American culture?
3. What new entertainments emerged during the 1920s?
4. What were the prominent developments and authors in literature?
5. Was this a period of increasing personal freedom and liberty, or of social control and oppression?

Monday 5/10 Term Paper Outline Due.

Know the significance of the  ; Henry Ford; Warren Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Smoot-Hawley Tariff; Teapot Dome; Kellog-Briand Pact Herbert Hoover; “rugged individualism”; Al Smith; jazz; Jelly Roll Morton; Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington; the Charleston; George Gershwin; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway; Sinclair Lewis; T.S. Eliot; Langston Hughes; Thomas Hart Benton; Edward Hopper; Georgia O’Keefe; Alfred Steiglist; Social Conflicts; Red Scare; National Origins Act; Ku Klux Klan; Great Migration; Harlem Renaissance; Marcus Garvey; Scopes Trial; 18th Amendment; Volstead Act; Margaret Sanger