The 1920 s and 1930 s Let s

The 1920 s and 1930 s

Let’s Play Students Teachers Final Challenge Game Board Roaring 20 s Age of Conservatism Great Depression The New Deal Grab Bag 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500

Students Roaring Twenties for 100 Teachers Game Board • Americans cashed in victory bonds from World War I • Credit & Installment Buying Give one reason why the American • economy grew so rapidly in the New consumer goods became available 1920 s? • Low regulation & laissez-faire made it cheap to do business 100

Students Roaring Twenties for 200 Teachers Game Board • People went on Sunday drives instead of going to church. • Young men & women had more freedom from their parents. • Name one way that the automobile Suburbanization increases. • Car related industries & businesses expand (Ex. influenced American society OR sheet metal, rubber, glass, restaurants, garages, etc. ) thehis workers well… improved conditions for economy in the 1920 s. • Ford paid workers • Some people bought cars on credit when they really couldn’t afford them 200

Students Roaring Twenties for 300 Teachers Game Board 300 The “New Woman” or “flapper” became the ideal of style. Some How did some women challenge women wore pants, showed skin, traditional behavioral norms in the drank alcohol, smoked, swore, 1920 s? had sex before marriage, etc.

Students Roaring Twenties for 400 Teachers Game Board • Harlem Renaissance: The outpouring of African-American art, literature & music in the 1920 s • Causes: What was the Harlem Renaissance? (1) The Great Migration helped spread AND What factors caused it? ideas & culture (2) Wealthy white patrons provided money for African-American authors, artists, & musicians 400

Students Roaring Twenties for 500 Teachers Game Board 1) Companies used “branding” to sell products. 2) Name two ways that advertising Psychologists helped advertisers 3) Advertisers used celebrities like changed in the 1920 s? Babe Ruth to endorse their products. 500

Students Age of Conservatism for 100 Teachers Game Board 100 • The Scopes “Monkey” Trial in which a teacher event that demonstrated Name one was convicted for teaching evolution in Tennessee. Christian the importance of • The rise of radio evangelists Fundamentalism in the 1920 s. (preachers) like Billy Sunday

Students Age of Conservatism for 200 Teachers Game Board The 18 th Amendment prohibited the production, distribution or consumption of alcohol. 1. Christian Fundamentalists thought alcohol was evil Why was the 18 th Amendment 2. Groups like the Women’s Christian enacted? Temperance Union thought it led to domestic violence & wasted a family’s money 3. During World War I, saving grain was seen as patriotic 200

Students Age of Conservatism for 300 Teachers Game Board Nativism = Anti-Immigrant Feeling 1. The Quota Acts (National Origins Act) limited immigration, and especially discriminated against the “new immigrants” from southern and eastern Europe. Give one example of Nativism in the 2. Membership in the Ku Klux Klan soared in 1920 s? the North. 3. Italian Immigrants Sacco & Vanzetti were executed for murder despite weak evidence against them. 300

Students Age of Conservatism for 400 Teachers Game Board 400 All are arguably Palmer Raids, the What did the examples of the Red deportation of radical immigrants, Scare (the fear of Communism and the trial of Sacco &after the other radical ideologies Vanzetti 1917 Russian Revolution) have in common?

Students Age of Conservatism for 500 Teachers Game Board 500 Both were Republicans who favored low taxation, low of Presidents Describe the policiesgovernment spending, and a. Coolidge. Harding and laissez-faire approach to managing the economy.

Students Great Depression for 100 Teachers Game Board 100 Which group was left out of most of Farmers generally saw crop prices the economic prosperity of the decline after World War I. 1920 s?

Students Great Depression for 200 Teachers Game Board Rising stock prices were caused by… • Ease of credit (buying “on margin”) • Lack of accurate information about Name one reasons why stock prices the true value of companies the stock were able to go so high in the represented. 1920 s. • Psychology of expansion caused by the belief that the market could rise forever. 200

Students Great Depression for 300 Teachers Game Board 300 Hoover did little because he did not believe it was the proper role of the How did President Hoover respond federal government. He called on to the Great Depression? Americans to solve their own problems through “self-reliance. ”

Students Great Depression for 400 Teachers Game Board Because many stocks were purchased “on margin” (with loans), banks lost money. As a How did the problems in the stock result, some banks could not pay market spread to the banking back depositors, which led to sector? “Bank Runs” in which masses of people rushed to banks to demand their money. 400

Students Great Depression for 500 Teachers Game Board Domestic demand began to drop after Americans had already purchased much of want they needed. 500 Why did demand for American goods drop off so dramatically in Foreign demand dropped off when the late 1920 s? American investors stopped lending money to Europeans (who then could not afford to buy American goods).

Students New Deal for 100 Teachers Game Board 100 Fear was literally making the economy Why was Franklin D. Roosevelt worse when panic led people correct when he stated that irrationally sell stock, pull all their Americans had “nothing to fear money out of the bank, or hoard but fear itself. ” cash rather than spend it.

Students New Deal for 200 Teachers Game Board The Federal Emergency Banking Relief Act declared a “Bank Holiday” during which banks would close. They could only be How did Franklin D. Roosevelt help re-opened after government inspectors stabilize the banking industry? declared them safe. 200 (Give two ways. ) The FDIC began insuring bank deposits. This helped prevent future “bank runs. ”

Students New Deal for 300 Teachers Game Board 300 • CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) • WPATWO New Deal programs that Name (Works Progress Administration) helped create jobs? • TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)

Students New Deal for 400 Teachers Game Board 400 It set codes for various industries, What did NIRA (National Industrial setting prices, wages, and other Recovery Act) do? conditions of production.

Students New Deal for 500 Teachers Game Board The Democratic Party ended up getting support from the following groups: workers (exp. Union members), farmers, African. How did the New Deal change Americans & other ethnic minorities, American politics? and southern whites… This gave the party an advantage in elections for the next 30 -40 years. 500

Students Grab Bag for 100 Teachers Game Board • Relief: Helping people survive the depression. • Recovery: Ending R’s of the What were threethe current New depression faster. Deal? • Reform: Preventing future depressions. 100

Students Grab Bag for 200 Teachers Game Board 200 Under President Harding… The Secretary of Interior took bribes What was the Teapot Dome Scandal from Mammouth Oil company in about? exchange for allowing them to extract oil from government land.

Students Grab Bag for 300 Teachers Game Board 1. Langston Hughes 2. Claude Mc. Kay Name two writers of the Harlem 3. Zora Neale Hurston Renaissance. 4. Countee Cullen 5. And many others… 300

Students Grab Bag for 400 Teachers Game Board 1. The Executive branch had drawn too much power to itself when it What did the Supreme under rule in Court the set industrial codes the case Schecter Poultry. Act. National Industrial Recovery Corporation v. U. S. 2. Consequently, NIRA was unconstitutional. 400

Students Grab Bag for 500 Teachers Game Board 500 He wanted to “pack” the court with supporters by getting Congress How did Franklin D. Roosevelt try to to expand the number of justices get around the Supreme Court? that could serve on the Supreme Court.

Students Final Challenge Teachers End Board Game • Lost Generation: Group of American writers who lived abroad in the 1920 s and wrote literature • Whatwritingthe “Lost Generation? ” Their was reflected the trauma of World Write Your depressing, What themes appeared in Lost War I. Some of it was dark & while other parts emphasized. AND Name Generation literature. living for the Final Challenge day and partying without worrying about one author that belonged to this consequences. Wager group. • Lost generation writers include T. S. Elliot, TIME’S Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott UP! Fitzgerald and others.

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