1. Regents Review

2. Immigration Immigration in the United States
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Japanese Gentlemen's Agreement
Literacy Tests
Immigrants working and living in Slums and Ghettos
Nativism in American society
Old Immigration – Northern and Western Europe,
New Immigration, , Southern and Eastern Europe, China and Japan
Immigration slows down after World War I, concerns over the spread of communism

3. Roaring 1920’s Scopes Monkey Trial (Education, Science and Religion)
Rise of Crime
Over Production of products
Rise of Nativism
Isolationism
Refuse to follow the Treaty of Versailles
Farm Foreclosures
Credit purchases
Rise of the Ku-Klux-Klan
Harlem Renaissance
Poor American Presidents
Lassieze-Faire
Dawes Act and financial aid to Europe/Reparations

4. Causes of the Great Depression
Rugged Individualism
Bonus Army and marchers
Stock Market Crash
Dust Bowl
No Confidence in Hoover
25% Unemployment
Hoover’s concern over too much government involvement

5. Great Depression FDR – First Hundred Days Bank Holidays Brain Trust
Greater Confidence in Government
Total Government Involvement
Fireside Chats

6. FDR and the Positives of the New Deal
Puts Americans back to work
Provides unemployment insurance
Fights the Supreme Court over the New Deal
Social Security, FDIC, CCC, TVA
Minimum Wage is established
Greater collective bargaining rights
Four term President, breaks Washington two term precedent
Unemployment rate is lowered

7. FDR and Negatives of the New Deal
Creates modern day welfare system
Too much government power
Concerns over checks and balances and separation of powers – Supreme Court Packing Plan
New Deal does not end the Great Depression
Deficit Spending
Schecter Poultry v. New York
National Recovery Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Act are unconstitutional