1920s & 1930s

1920s

The "Roaring 20's"

Women's Suffrage

The Flapper Age

Harding (21 -23)

    Washington Naval Conference

    Teapot Dome Scandal

Coolidge (23-28)

Left out of Prosperity?

    African Americans

    Farmers

    Working Class

    Native Americans

Mass Consumerism

Credit - Installment Plan

Chain Stores / Grocery Stores

Leisure Time

    Movies / Professional Sports / Vacations

Arts

    Jazz

    Harlem Renaissance

Nativism

    Sacco & Vanzetti

    Red Scare

    Palmer Raids

    KKK

Scopes Monkey Trial

Prohibition (18th & 21st amendments)

1930s

Causes of the Great Depression

    Overproduction

    Poorly Managed Banking

    Unequal purchasing power

    Decline in Demand for US Goods

    Poor Economic Decisions (Hawley Smoot Tariff)

    Stock Market Crash (more of a symptom than a cause)

        Black Tuesday, Buying on Margin, results

Hobos

Effect on men/Women & Children

The Dust Bowl

Hoover (28-32)

    Hoovervilles (Hoover Blankets)

    Trickle Down

    POUR - Private Charity

    Some public works - Hoover Dam

    Bonus Army

Roosevelt (32-45)

    Eleanor's role

    Priming the Pump

    The Brain Trust

    Fireside Chats

    "100 Days"

    Relief, Recovery, Reform

    Bank Holiday

    Emergency Banking Act

    1st & Second New Deal

    FERA, CWA, WPA, CCC, AAA, NIRA,NRA, SEC, SSA, NYA, TVA

    Glass Stegall Banking Act (Created FDIC)

    Wagner Act

Schechter Poultry Corporation vs. US

Butler vs. US

Role of WWII