Unit 7: Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

1. Unit 7: Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

2. Day 1: Harding, Nativism, consumerism

3. Do Now

4. Looking Forward

5. Election of 1920 • People wanted a return to the security they felt before WWI • Warren G. Harding • A “return to normalcy”

6. What is “normalcy”? • Normalcy = an idealized version of the way things are, or the way things should be • In groups of 2-3, act out a scene of “normalcy” • Family Life • Women’s Rights • Education • Transportation • Now, in groups of 2-3, act out the same scene, but as “reality”

7. 1920s Stations

8. Day 2

9. Do Now • What do you know about the Harlem Renaissance? • Tweet your answer @ms_keale • Write it down on a post-it note and post it on the white board

10. Looking forward • Harlem Renaissance work over break (I’ll explain later!)

11. “Red Scare” • Russian Revolution • Monarch replaced by a “republican” • (“Republican” = communist) • Communism: political and economic philosophy in which the government owns all property and individual rights mean very little • “Red Scare” • Anarchists attempt to assassinated Attorney General Palmer • Palmer Raids: suspected communists are arrested and jailed • Sacco and Vanzetti: convicted and executed

12. “Red Scare” • Nativism: opposition to immigration • Immigration quotas (limitations) – designed to allow more immigrants from Western Europe than Eastern Europe • Ku Klux Klan • Redeveloped out of fear of communism and mistrust of immigration • Expanded to attack Jews, Catholics and immigrants • Lynchings, violence

13. Great Migration • African-Americans moving North • Goal: jobs, economic equality • White response: • Racism (KKK) • White Flight (migration) • Race Riots • (YouTube)

14. Harlem Renaissance • 1919-1930s • African American pride and awareness • First time African American intellectuals wrote works portraying the daily lives of working class African Americans • Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston

15. Twitter Project • You have just been transplanted back in time to the Harlem Renaissance • Your Twitter followers want to know what it is like • Use the remainder of this class period to work on your project, it’s due on the Monday we return!

16. Review day

17. Do now

18. Looking Forward

19. “Fishbowl” • Round 1: TabooDescribe the vocab term on your card using any words, sounds or hand motions EXCEPT the words on your card • Round 2: CharadesDescribe the vocab term on your card using hand motions or body language. You may not make any sounds. • Round 3: PasswordDescribe the vocab term on your card using one word

20. Recap: the 1920s • Consumer society • “Red Scare”: period of time when Americans feared a communist takeover • Palmer Raids: suspected communists and “subversives” were arrested and jailed • Sacco and Vanzetti • Nativism: opposition to immigration • Quotas: limitations on the number of immigrants that could enter the US annually from different parts of the world • Ku Klux Klan • Prohibition: a national ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol • Bootleggers, mobsters, gangsters (Al Capone)

21. Amazing race • With a partner, race to complete all of the stations • You do not need to complete the stations in order • You must get your answer checked after every station • When you have finished the stations, work on your homework!

22. Station 1

23. Station 2

24. Station 3

25. Station 4

26. Station 5

27. Station 6

28. Station 7

29. Day 3

30. Do Now • Put your homework on your desk (do NOT email it to me) • Add something to THIS KWL chart that you know about the Great Depression (either from prior knowledge OR your reading last night) or want to know about the Great Depression

31. Looking Forward • Tonight’s Homework: Chapter 22.2 – Main Idea Questions • 1920s & Great Depression QUIZ on FRIDAY

32. Prosperous 1920s • President Calvin Coolidge: the government should not interfere with the growth of business (laissez-faire economics) • Stock Market: • Speculation: high-risk investments in the hopes of making money • “Buying on margin”: purchasing stocks for a portion of what they cost (10%) • Technology • Mechanization = mass production • Manufacturers flood the markets with products = cheap goods!

33. Farmers in the 1920s • OVERPRODUCTION! • Agricultural prices drop drastically • President Coolidge refuses to help (says it is unconstitutional) • PREDICT: What is going to happen to farmers in the 1930s?

34. Stock market game Today we’re going to complete a simulation in which you’ll have the opportunity to make decisions that will cause you to succeed or fail at the Stock Market • Every person should have: • 4 $100s • 1 $50 • 5 $10 • Step 1: Read the Stock Prospectus • Step 2: Begin to buy stocks from the Stock Brokers • Consider: How will you make the most money? • Consider: How will you lose the least amount of money? • Suggestion: “Buy low, sell high!”

35. start • Each share is worth $10 • To purchase a stock certificate, you need to purchase 10 shares ($100) • Everyone must purchase something each round • When the market is “closed”, you may purchase/trade with each other, but may not trade with the stock brokers

36. 1920

37. 1922

38. CRISIS: PRESIDENT HARDING President Harding is suffering from a coronary seizure and may have pneumonia. He is reported to be dying. The Stock Market will be closed for 2 minutes for new postings

39. 1925

40. 1927

41. 1928

42. October 23, 1929 The market slipped today as the government announced that home construction, an indicator of prosperity, was at an all-time low. The Federal Reserve Board also announced that a change in the prime interest rate would take place in the near future; speculation on the stock market is getting out of hand. It is rumored that the House of Morgan intends to sell 12 million shares of common stock at a loss, before interest rates change. The Gotham Bank announced that margin buyers of stock are being notified that they must put up more money to cover today’s losses. The Stock Market will be closed for 5 minutes.

43. October 24, 1929(black Thursday) • Stock brokers must buy back all of the stocks

44. reflection • Did you have a system for what would make you money, or lose you money? • Did you start with the same amount of money with which you ended the game? • Did anyone sell out before the crash?

45. The beginnings of the great depression • President Herbert Hoover: opposes government interference in business • October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday): Stock Market crash • Prices drop drastically • Buying on speculation or the margin = lose everything • Financial ruin • Beginning of the Great Depression

46. Exit ticket Write one paragraph Could the Great Depression have been avoided? Why or why not?

47. Day 4

48. Do Now Rich or poor, most Americans have possessions and take for granted the hundreds of big and little conveniences that having a home gives them Imagine NOT having a home and having a limit in your possessions. You can only own what you can carry with you. What five things would you take with you if you had to migrate on a daily basis? Why?

49. Looking Forward • 1920s and Great Depression Quiz on FRIDAY • StudyBlue terms are now up!(Paper copies available) • Tonight’s Homework: Chapter 22.3 – Main Idea Questions

50. Root Causes of the Great Depression • Stock Market Crash of 1929 Two months after the crash, stockholders had lost $40 billion • Bank Failures Over 9,000 banks failed (people lose all their savings) Banks refuse to issue new loans • Reduction in Purchasing Across the Board Consumerist society ends Unemployment rises to above 25% • American Economic Policy with Europe Smoot-Hawley Tariff: high tax for imports • Drought Conditions “The Dust Bowl”