THE "MODERN" ERA: 1920'S THROUGH THE 1930'S

Thursday, Feb. 22 American Art: What can historians learn?

Due: Bibliography with minimum 8 sources, plus a general outline of what you want to learn from your sources. Even if you have not secured an interviewee or been in close contact with that person, you still know what event or period of time that interests you. Time to get informed! Please turn in the interview sheet if you have not done so.

Also, bookmark this website for future use: It's called "Clash of Cultures in the 1910's and 1920's" sponsored by Ohio State University and it is located:

http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/default.htm

Monday March 5 The 1920's: Era of Paradox

Due: go to the website http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/default.htm You are going to read about four topics tonight: Prohibition, Immigration, Ku Klux Klan and the Scopes Trial. Select each one on the home page. This takes you to the index, but then select the item again on the left and you will get several pages of text which you must read. Please pay attention to the political cartoons that are included in each topic.

Work on your research; introductory paragraph is due: Tuesday, March 13th

Wed. March 7 1920's: the "Lighter Side"

Due: go to the website http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/default.htm, read the "introduction" and then select "The New Woman". On the next page select "The New Woman" in left hand column and you will see several topics which you should select and read: Opposition, Sexuality, Image and Lifestyle, African American New Woman", and "Work, Education..."

Keep doing research for your papers.

Fri. March 9 CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Due: read pp. 846-853 (bottom) in Out of the Many

Identify:

bull market
Herbert Hoover
Bonus army
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1932 Election
New Deal

Questions to guide your reading:

1. What were the underlying causes of the Great Depression?

2. What consequences did the depression have for ordinary Americans?

3. How did the Hoover administrtation atempt to deal with the crisis?

KEEP DOING RESEARCH FOR YOUR PAPERS; PARAGRAPH DUE NEXT WEEK...

Tuesday 3/13/07 POPULAR RESPONSE TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION

DUE: Opening paragraph of historical contextualization essay due TODAY

Thursday 3/15/07 FDR and The NEW DEAL

Due: read pp.854-869, and pp.876-880 in Out of the Many

Identify:
"fireside chat"
Emergency Banking Act
"the Hundred Days"
CCC
FERA
AAA
TVA
NRA
Fr. Charles Coughlin
Francis E. Townsend
Huey Long
Share Our Wealth Society
Social Security Act
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
CIO
John L. Lewis
"New Deal coalition"
Schecter v. US
"court packing bill"
Works Progress Administratiion WPA


1. How did the so-called Second New Deal differ from the first?

2. What political pressures/criticism (from the right and from the left) did FDR face that contributed to the new policies?

3. What gains did the labor movement achieve in the 1930s?

4. How did the New Deal reshape western communities and politics? What specific programs had the greatest impact on the region? How are these changes still visible today? How did the large-scale water projects of the New Deal impact western American communities?

5. How did the New Deal fail the tenant farmer and sharecropper?

6. What were the reasons for the ecological disaster called the "Dust Bowl"? How did the federal government try to alleviate the bad situation for farmers?

7. What impact did the New Deal have upon the lives of native peoples?

8. What were the key successes of the New Deal? key failures?

9. What legacies of New Deal-era policies and political struggles can you find in contemporary America?

LAST HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT UNTIL PAPERS ARE DUE: MONDAY, MARCH 26