Highs and Lows: The 1920s . . . . . . . and 1930s

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Highs and Lows The 1920s . . . . . . .
and 1930s
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I) Legacies of the Great War

• Red Scare
• Russian Revolution
• 1919 Strikes
• J. Edgar Hoover

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• Warren G. Harding
• Normalcy
• Calvin Coolidge
• Commerce Department Herbert Hoover

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• Foreign Relations
• Foreign debts
• Kellogg-Briand Treaty
• Washington Conference

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• Lynching
• DuBois/Washington
• The Great Migration
• 1919 Chicago Race Riot

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• The Rise of the KKK (again)
• 1915 Stone Mountain
• Southern Publicity Association
• Immigration Restriction--1924

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• Harlem Renaissance
• Claude McKay
• Langston Hughes
• Cotton Club/Count Basie
• Marcus Garvey/Black Star Line
• New Negro

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II) New Morals and Old Sins

• Prohibition
• Eighteenth Amendment
• Al Capone
• Volstead Act

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• Religion
• Evolution
• John Scopes
• Clarence Darrow
• William Jennings Bryan

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• A Roaring Economy
• electricity
• consumer goods
• installment buying
• the automobile

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III) 1930s The Great Depression

• The Crash of 1929
• Industrial Production
• Bank Failures
• Foreign Trade
• Unemployment

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• Herbert Hoovers Reponse
• Hoovervilles
• Bonus Expeditionary Force
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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• The New Deal
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Recovery
• Reform
• Agricultural Adjustment Administration
• Works Progress Administration
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Social Security
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
• NLRB