America 19191941
Contents:
3. 1920s: prosperity and poverty
9. Hard-copy booklet
Links:
SchoolHistory Interactive Diagrams - GREAT!
History Learning Site - excellent
Spartacus - notes on all the key events/ issues
Podcast:
- Giles Hill excellent podcasts on the USA
KEY QUESTIONS:
- How Did
America React to the end of World War I?
- Rejection of the peace treaty; reasons for refusing to join the League of Nations.
- How Did the Policies of the American Government
encourage Isolationism?
- Tariff policy: Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922; immigration controls; quota system of 1921.
- How
Far Did America achieve prosperity in the 1920?
- Mass production (e.g. Ford and the motor industry); consumer boom .
- Hire Purchase, purchase of shares - stock market boom; continuation of poverty (e.g. farmers); Afro-Americans.
- The Roaring Twenties. Is this a good description of the USA in the
1920s?
- Ku Klux Klan and racism; Prohibition; organised crime, e.g. Al Capone.
- Developments in entertainment, e.g. Hollywood, jazz.
- The flappers
- Why did the USA fall into depression in 1929?
- Problems of the 1920s, (e.g. overproduction, lack of credit control, unequal distribution of wealth; tariff controls)
- What were the effects of the
Depression on the American people?
- Effects of the Wall Street Crash collapse of business and industry; unemployment and its effects.
- Failure of Hoovers Government to deal with depression.
- What measures did Roosevelt introduce to deal
with the Depression?
- Election of FDR; the fireside chats.
- Banking crisis.
- New Deal and the Alphabet Agencies: TVA, NRA, WPA, CCC, AAA.
In this module you will learn:
FIVE reasons the America people were isolationist [IMAGE]
TWO principles of the Fordney-McCumber Act
FOUR reasons Americans wanted high tariffs [WAIF]
THREE reasons Americans wanted to stop immigration [PRT]
THREE laws to control immigration
THREE measures to 'Americanize' immigrants
NINE indications of a booming economy in the 1920s [CI SUCCESS]
TEN reasons why industry boomed in the 1920s [PAT GOT CASH]
EIGHT weaknesses of the American economy in the 1920s [FLOP CUTS]
FIVE aspects of the 'Roaring Twenties' [POWER]
SIX examples of racism in 1920s America [HACKLE]
FIVE aspects of the Black renaissance [RHINO]
SIX factors leading to Prohibition [ACRIME]
SIX ways prohibition was a failure [DAMAGE]
THREE ways Prohibition was a success [ALE]
FOUR causes of the Great Crash of 1929
SEVEN causes of the Great Depression of the 1930s
SEVEN ways the Great Depression was terrible [Some Farmers Were Handling Hardship Very Badly]
THREE ways the Great Depression was not as bad as it is often painted
THREE aspects of the First New Deal [Can Fdr Achieve]
FIVE aspects of the Second New Deal [New Social Standards 'N Fairness]
FIVE successes of the New Deal [5Rs]
THREE failures of the New Deal [3Ds]
FIVE opponents of the New Deal [BRASS]