Before we meet, please be sure to have read through chapter 24 and watched the following videos:

The 1920s: Boom to Bust:

The Economic Boom of the 1920s:

And the lectures from your textbook:

1920s:

The Great Depression and the New Deal:

The 1920s: Post War Economic Boom

1. Overall, Americans feeling confident and more prosperous after WW I

-------------All groups making more money, but middle class (especially the very wealthy seeing the most improvements).

------------European competition weakened

-------------Welfare capitalism

------------Consumerism increases

-------------------------Advertising & Credit (both discussed in your text)

2. Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance

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3. Nativism

---------Rise of the KKK

---------National Origins Act---1924

4. Red Scare

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5. Causes of the Great Depression: Too Much Debt

6. The Great Depression--1929-1942

----------------Effects: Unemployment, Homelessness, and Poverty

----------------Migrant Workers, Dads leave families, schools close

---------------Herbert Hoover's response: Laissez-Faire

--------------Election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt--1932

7. New Deal

---------Recovery

------------SEC, FDIC, CCC, and TVA

---------Challengers: Dr. Townsend, Hughey Long, and Father Coughlin

1936 Election

---------Reform:

--------------WPA, SSA, Wagner Act

--------------------Frances Perkins

9. Role of Eleanor Roosevelt

````````````advocated for the poor, women, and African Americans

Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson:

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