Read Chapter 15 from Howard Zinn's A Peoples' History of the United States and answer the following questions. Each answer should include examples and complete explanations.

1. Why are the 1920's not really the "Roaring 20's"

2. What was the real cause of the Great Depression?

3. Why were veterans angry during the Great Depression

4 Didi the American Federation of Labor help workers?

5. Did FDR"s New Deal help?

6. What happened to labor and labor unions between the 1920's and the 1940's?

Chapter 25

What did the depression mean to typical Americans in terms of standard of living and lifestyle? Why suffered most? How did basic American social and political values stand up to the economic crisis?

Chapter 26

Chart on Alphabet Soup

Describe Roosevelt's court-packing plan? Why was it proposed and what was the outcome? Why?

Which groups made up the new Democratic coalition that reelected FDR by a landslide in 1936? Why was each group attracted to the New Deal?

FACTS, figures, people, and places.   Be prepared to identify, define, describe, and explain the significance of the people, places, and events listed below.

44. Bonus Marchers
45. Brain Trust
46. Frances Perkins
47. Harold Ickes
48. Public Works Administration
49. The Hundred Days
50. Civilian Conservation Corps
51. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
52. Federal Emergency Relief Act
53. Harry Hopkins
54. Tennessee Valley Authority
55. Agricultural Adjustment Act
56. National Recovery Administration
57. Section 7a
58. Federal Securities Act
59. Securities Exchange Commission
60. Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
61. Dust Bowls
62. "Okies"
63. "Fireside Chats"
64. Second New Deal
65. Charles E. Coughlin
66. Francis E. Townsend
67. Huey Long
68. Works Progress Administration
69. National Youth Administration
70. John Maynard Keynes
71. Keynesian Economics
72. Resettlement
73. Farm Security Administrations
74. National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act

75. Social Security Act
76. Revenue Act of 1935 ("Soak the Rich" Law)
77. Mary McLeod Bethune
78. The "Black Cabinet"
79. Mary Dewson
80. National Housing Act, 1937
81. Fair Labor Standards Act
82. John J. Lewis
83. Sidney Hillman
84. Committee for Industrial Organization, later Congress of Ind. Org. (CIO)
85. Walter Reuther
86. United Automobile Workers
87. Sit-downs
88. Harry Bennett
89. Battle of the Overpass
90. Tom Girdler
91. "Little Steel"
92. Memorial Day Massacre
93. Scottsboro Boys
94. Richard Wright
95. John Collier
96. Indian Reorganization Act 1934
97. Pare Lorentz
98. "The River"
99. "The Plow That Broke the Plains"
100. The Marx Brothers
101. Stepin Fetchit
102. James T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan
103. John Dos Passos, U. S. A.
104. Nathanial West, Miss Lonelyhearts
105. John Reed clubs
 
 
 
 
 
 

1. Causes of the economic growth and prosperity of the 1920s.
2. Ways in which business influenced American life and values in the 1920s.
3. How economic, technological, cultural, and social changes affected women in the twenties.
4. Who benefited most and least from the prosperity.
5. Why agriculture was depressed during the twenties.
6. The corruption of the Harding years and the probusiness attitudes of both the Harding and Coolidge administrations.
7. U. S. foreign policy in the 1920s.
8. Indications that some progressive reform impulses remained in the 1920s.
9. What happened to the feminist movement in the twenties.
10. Cultural and social changes in the 1920s.
11. Achievements in the arts and sciences.
12. Political, social, and artistic activities of northern, urban black Americans during the decade.
13. Indications of social conflicts and intolerance in American society in the 1920s.
14. Candidates, issues, and outcome of the election of 1928.
15. Herbert Hoover's social thought and how it hindered him in fighting the depression.
16. Causes of the stock market crash and the depression that followed.
17. President Hoover's responses to the depression and why he acted in those particular ways.
18. Who was hurt by the depression and how those depression victims protested.
19. Candidates, issues, and outcome of the election of 1932.
20. What is meant by the New Deal and which groups and individuals helped to shape it.
21. The programs and laws passed during the Hundred Days; what they accomplished and what they failed to do.
22. How nature and the workings of the Agricultural Adjustment Act hurt the rural poor.
23. The unusual outcome of the 1934 congressional elections and what that outcome signified.
24. What the Second New Deal was and why Roosevelt launched it in 1935.
25. The groups that were helped by Second New Deal programs and how they were helped; which groups opposed the legislation and why.
26. What is meant by Keynesian economics and whether Roosevelt followed Keynes's theories.
27. The groups that made up the Democratic coalition and produced FDR's 1936 victory, and why those groups voted Democratic.
28. Why and how Roosevelt tried to reform the Supreme Court; why Congress rejected his "court packing plan".
29. Causes of the Roosevelt recession.
30. What brought about the end of the New Deal and what its lasting effects on American society have been.
31. The kinds of physical and emotional distress people suffered because of  the depression.
32. What happened in the labor movement in the 1930s and why.
33. What happened to working women during the depression.
34. The impact of the depression on African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans.
35. John Collier's New Deal for Indians and why it was controversial.
36. The impact of the depression on family life and on population trends.
37. The popular entertainments of the 1930s and how these treated the depression and related social problems.
38. How literature, drama, art, and music were affected by the depression, the Popular Front, and the rising cultural nationalism.