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Essential Themes

1. Modern Culture and Conflicts: A new culture emerged in the 1920s

that challenged the past and caused a cultural divide across the country. .

Conflicts centered around immigrants and fears of communism (the first Red

Scare), prohibition of alcohol, the role of the modern woman (flapper), and

was most apparent with the new rise of the KKK even in the north. New

forms of entertainment transformed the culture; radio, jazz music, leisure

sports, cinema, and a consumer culture that valued owning things more than

the traditional Protestant value of hard work and personal restraint. These

cultural conflicts will eventually subside but will reemerge in a firestorm in

the 1960s.

How were the culture conflicts of the 1920s similar to culture conflicts in America

today?

2. Expansion of the Federal Government: The Progressive Era ushered in

a more active government to balance the power of industrialists, solve social ills,

and provide worker and consumer protections through regulations. To fight in

both world wars, the government was forced to grow in scope and scale to manage

a total war. While the 1920s attempted to withdraw back to traditional laissez-

faire role, FDR’s New Deal forever altered the relationship between the

government and the citizenry. The role of the modern government that we are

familiar with today, essentially came out of this period.

How did President Hoover and FDR differ on the proper role of government in responding

to the Great Depression?

3. A New Foreign Policy: With the closing of the frontier, America looked

outward and with the Spanish American War in 1898, America became an

imperial power. Similar arguments and motivations were made for empire as

for Manifest Destiny, but it did not come without debate. America’s entered

the Great War to ‘make the world safe for democracy’ but the carnage of the

war, worries over entangling alliances and loss of sovereignty led to a

rejection of the League of Nations. Stern isolationism throughout the twenties

and thirties was only to be shattered by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Again,

trust into a world war, America rose to its finest hour in defeating fascism

abroad and in the aftermath, be left as the sole power to resist the Soviets.

How did America’s isolation in the 1930’s play into the hands of Germany and Japan?

The Utmost Essential Terms

Definition or Description Significance or Image

Muckrakers

16, 17, 18, Amendment

(Progressive

Amendments)

16th 17th 18th

USS Maine

Anti-Imperialism

League

White Man’s Burden

Roosevelt Corollary (to

Monroe

Doctrine)

Square Deal

Wilson’s New

Freedom

Lusitania

14 Points

Sedition Act

(& Scheck v US)

1st and 2nd

Great Migration

Treaty of Versailles

(& League of Nations)

Immigration Act of 1924

Scopes Trial

Fordism

Flappers

Stock Market Crash

New Deal

(a few) NEW DEAL ACTS

FDIC-

AAA-

NRA-

SSA-

Wagner Act

Neutrality Acts of

1935,36,37

Atlantic Charter

Double Victory

Executive Order of

9066 (Korematsu v

US)

D-Day

Manhattan Project

Historical Thinking Skills: Comparison

Unique Similar Unique

WWI Impact on

Homefront

WWII Impact on

Homefront

THESIS PRACTICE: Compare and contrast the how World War I and World War

II impacted the American homefront.

Historical Thinking Skills: Causation

CAUSES EFFECTS (most significant to least) (most significant to least)

Explain the changes and continuities in the role of the

American government between 1890-1932

CONTINUITIES CHANGES

Progressive Reforms

Short (and Sweet) Answer Question! Tips and Tricks: Remember to “ACE it” for the SAQ. Answer, Cite, and Explain!

Answer: reuse key words from the prompt to answer it by Citing specific evidence and

then Explaining how the evidence supports your Answer.

Source 1: Thomas Kessner, “New Deal” 2010

With a blaze of bold executive action in his first 100 days, he dashed the torpor and malaise

that enveloped Washington. Declaring that he intended to employ powers similar to those

granted by the Constitution to fight a war, Roosevelt led a compliant Congress to enact

legislation assigning him unprecedented responsibilities for economic planning and assistance

to the unemployed. And while a fuller perspective reveals how bounded these changes were,

the swift pace and broad scale of the reforms conveyed a resolute engagement with the

people’s troubles.

Source 2: Howard Zinn, “A People’s History of the United States.” 1980

When the New Deal was over, capitalism remained intact. The rich still controlled the nation's

wealth, as well as its laws, courts, police, newspapers, churches, colleges. Enough help had

been given to enough people to make Roosevelt a hero to millions, but the same system that

had brought depression and crisis-the system of waste, of inequality, of concern for profit over

human need- remained.

1. Explain an important difference between how sources 1 and 2 view the New Deal.

2.Explain one specific piece of evidence that would support Kessner’s view.

3.Explain one specific piece of evidence that would support Zinn’s view.

Document Analysis for the DBQ

Prompt: Analyze the economic and social changes America

experienced in the 1920s.

Doc 1 Source: Lorna Mason et al,

“America’s Past and Promise”, 1998

Doc 2 Source: “Step by Step” Green,

Sydney 1919

Cartoons, paintings, and even

photographs often have a point-

of-view that is easy to

recognize. This engraving,

however, has a purpose that is

very easy to recognize- use that

when you HIPP!

When reading graphs, look for

general trends and any aberrations.

For this graph, while this is about

automobiles sales in the 1920s, to

make best use of this document- do

not just talk about sales of cars, go

on to analyze the different changes

(soc and econ) that cars had on

America!

HIPPING a cartoon is easy b/c there will be a

recognizable POV with a clear purpose (to

influence people’s opinions) Try to use 2 HIPPs

to ensure that one makes the cut! “A cartoon

from the perspective of ____ was trying to

show how _____________...Next explain the

significance of the topic in the doc to the

prompt and your thesis statement!”

Source: John F Carter, “These Wild Young People”, Atlantic Monthly, 1920 Now my generation is disillusioned, and, I think, to a certain extent, brutalized, by the

cataclysm which their (previous generation) complacent folly engendered. We have seen

man at his lowest, woman at her highest, in the terrible moral chaos of Europe…We have

been forced to live in an atmosphere of “tomorrow we die,” and so naturally, we drank and

be merry…Our music is distinctly barbaric, we drink when we can, what we can, we gamble,

we are extravagant.

When using docs, consider what specific historical facts or terms you can

use that support the doc. The more historical knowledge you can show,

the stronger your essay will be. (For instance, this doc does not mention

‘flappers’ or __?__ but those both should be used in your analysis!)

DBQ Writing Practice 1 pt:Set the Context! What events immediately proceeded and led the topic and events of the DBQ?

1 pt Thesis Statement [Ensure to answer ALL parts of the question and provide categories that

will be argued in your body paragraphs!]

Body paragraphs [up to 5 points: HIPP, Use of Docs, advanced

argumentation, and outside information]

Topic sentence linked to thesis category:

Introduce doc(s) with HIPP, explain useful information inferred, explain how it proves thesis:

Topic Sentence linked to thesis category:

Introduce doc(s) with HIPP, explain useful info inferred, explain how it proves thesis

Outside info to prove thesis (outside evidence should not be connected to any doc)

If you can explain how/why

docs and/or ideas are

connected or contradictory,

you earn the argumentation

point

Historical Thinking Skill: Chronological Reasoning

Pivotal Events in Period 7

1898

1945

Provide what you feel are the 8 most pivotal

and tide turning events of this period.