Unit+10--Prosperity+&+Depression

Lesson 1: Postwar Tensions Lesson 2: The Roaring Twenties  Lesson 3: The Politics of Normalcy  Lesson 4: The Great Depression  Lesson 5: The New Deal and Its Legacy Key Concepts: 7.1 Governmental, political, and social organizations struggled to address the effects of large-scale industrialization, economic uncertainty, and related social changes such as urbanization and mass migration. 7.2 A revolution in communications and transportation technology helped to create a new mass culture and spread "modern" values and ideas, even as cultural conflicts between groups increased under pressure of migration, world wars, and economic distress. There are a number of **American Experience videos** that you can watch on line that help explain the 20s and the 30s. I have listed a few below. The Crash of 1929 The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire The Great Famine (In Russia)  Riding the Rails  Surviving the Dust Bowl //**Essential Question **//
 * 1) The Twenties as conservative: Was the era of the 1920s a repudiation of the Progressive Era? To what extent was it a throwback to the Age of Big Business? Was there anything “progressive” about the age?
 * 2) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Examine the 1920s in the following ways: Did the decade represent a conflict between urban and rural values? How did African-Americans and women fare during this era? While the Republican Party dominated the decade, what key developments took place that helped the Democratic Party in the future?
 * 3) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Compare and contrast Franklin Roosevelt’s policies with those of Herbert Hoover
 * 4) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What were some of the fundamental causes of the Great Depression? What signs were there in the 1920s that there were fundamental problems with the structure of the American economy
 * 5) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How did international events impact the depression in the United States
 * 6) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Who were some of the principal critics of the New Deal
 * 7) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What were the 3 Rs of the New Deal? Select two New Deal agencies and assess how well each satisfied one of the 3 Rs?
 * 8) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How did the New Deal evolve from 1933-1939?
 * 9) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How did the Depression and New Deal impact women and minorities?
 * 10) <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How did the American people cope with the Depression?

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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">For Monday, March 24, 2014 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Read Chapter 20, The Business of America: 820-827 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Review this video about the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 **
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 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Review this song by Woody Guthrie about the Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti. **
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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For Tuesday, March 25, 2014 **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 20: Business & Government, pps. 828-836 **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**For Wednesday, March 26, 2014**
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 20: The Culture Wars, pps. 836-847 **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Select ONE of the following essays. Print off and bring to class on Friday, March 28, 2014 **
 * <span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">The 1920’s witnessed an assault by rural and small town America on Urban America. Assess the validity of this generalization.
 * <span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">In what ways did economic conditions and developments in the arts and entertainment help create the reputation of the 1920’s as the Roaring Twenties?
 * <span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">How did TWO of the following help shape American national culture in the 1920's? Advertising? Entertainment? Mass production?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**For Friday, March 28, 2014**
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 20: The Great Depression, pps. 847-854 **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Republican Presidents] **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Watch the videos listed below. Open a google doc and take notes over the videos. Share with me by Tuesday, April 1, 2014 **

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 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For Monday, March 31, 2014 **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Read Chapter 21: The First New Deal, pps. 861-875 **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For Tuesday, April 1, 2014 **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Read Chapter 21: The Grassroots Revolt, 875-898 **

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For Wednesday, April 2, 2014 ** > > **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Task: ** > **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Process: ** > **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1. Individually review the provided resources, noting the types of hardships faced by Americans across the nation. Topics to be addressed include: ** > **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2. Select three images that best epitomize your understanding of the time. ** > **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3. Analyze each picture, closely examining all parts of the photograph and any provided captions. ** > **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4. Write a summary explaining how the images depict the suffering of the Great Depression. In the explanation, include related facts, quotes, the topics listed in step number 1, and interpretations of what the photographer may have intended. ** > **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Resources: ** > **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For Thursday,April 3, 2014 ** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For Friday, April 4, 2014 ** **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For Tuesday, April 8, 2014 **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Finish Chapter 21 **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Great Depression/WPA **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Select images taken by WPA photographers and use them to tell the story of the tragedy of the Great Depression and the triumphs of the American spirit. **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Poverty **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Environmental hardship **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Family and personal struggles **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Movement, including migration from the Dust Bowl to California **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Video Segment: [|Surviving the Dust Bowl], Chapter 4: Death and Destruction (22:38) **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Video Segment: [|The Civilian Conservation Corps], Chapters 1-2: Introduction and The Great Depression (0:01-3:16) **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Video Segment: [|The Civilian Conservation Corps], Chapter 6: CCC Projects (28:25) and People and Chapter 7: Lasting Effects (37:20) - includes information on the people of the CCC and their work and education **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|The Drought] **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Black Sunday] **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Article from Digital History on [|The Human Toll] of the Great Depression **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Article from Digital History on [|The Dispossessed] of the Great Depression **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">From the Library of Congress, Dorthea Lange’s [|Migrant Mother series] — a collection of photographs **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">From the Federal Writer’s Project, [|Voices from the Thirties] — a collection of interviews conducted by Life Histories **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">From the Federal Writer’s Project, [|American Life History – 1936-1940] — a collection of manuscripts **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">From Webster University Professor Bill Barrett, [|Farm Security Administration Photographers] **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">From the Library of Congress, [|Documenting America – Photographs from the Depression through WWII] **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">From the U.S. Department of Agriculture, [|Dust Bowl Photographs] **
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Read Chapter 22, Fighting WWII, pps. 906-915 **
 * <span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[[file:Pacific Map.pdf]]
 * [[file:Map of Europe.pdf]]
 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Read Chapter 22: The Homefront, 915-926 **
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 22: The American Dilemma, 926-944 **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">For Wednesday, April 9, 2014 **

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 * **<span style="color: #880000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Celebration of Knowledge, Chapters 20, 21 and 22 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Review the following clips from American Century, Stormy Weather, 1-3 for Review **