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Bull Market Great Migration Consumerism Flappers Prohibition Bootlegging Al Capone Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age
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The Lost Generation Republican Dominated Teapot Dome Scandal—Harding Charles Lindbergh Babe Ruth Model T and Model A Scopes Monkey Trial
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Bear Market Dust bowl Okies migrated to California Democratic Party dominated New Deal FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt Prohibition repealed Depression ‘Brother, can you spare a dime?’
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Fireside chats Court packing scheme Dorothea Lange photos Hoovervilles
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CCC—boys build camps NYA—jobs for youth SEC—oversees securities Social Security—retirement money
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WPA—work for artists and musicians FDIC—insures bank deposits TVA—gave electricity to Tennessee Valley
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PWA—public works (roads etc) AAA—agriculture—helped farmers NRA—helped businesses FHA--housing
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Teapot Dome Scandal Almost impeached Died in office Coolidge became president Harlem Renaissance—Langston Hughes
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Fear of communists America was isolationist We did not sign the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations
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Newspapers Movies Radio tabloids
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Overproduction Underconsumption Unemployment Buying stocks on the margin Bad bank loans Stock Market Crash—Black Monday-- Oct. 28, 1929
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Laissez-faire Hoovervilles Hoover blankets Republican President Believed in rugged individualism
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Stock market crash Breadlines and soup kitchens Hoover blankets and Hoovervilles Bank holiday First 100 days
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Polio—biggest challenge Democrat New Deal— ‘relief, recovery and reform’ Eleanor—first lady Election of 32—landslide ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself’ Liberal—promoted government programs Brain trust—special advisors
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Record deficits ($) Court packing scheme Changed the way we view government today—good or bad
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Grapes of Wrath Migrant workers Okies to California Cesar Chavez—leader of migrant workers in 1960s and 1970s
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Write a paragraph contrasting the 20s to the 30s Suggested vocabulary: prosperity, depression, stock market, Republicans, Democrats, rugged individualism, New Deal, programs, prohibition, Jazz Age, Dust Bowl, names of politicians or heroes
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