Between the Wars

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AMERICAN BETWEEN WARS – the 1920’s
The Roaring 20’s
President Harding’s Administration
Flappers
Harlem Renaissance
Red Scare
Immigration Quotas
Sacco and Vanzetti
Prohibition
Bootlegging
Scopes Trial
Women’s Suffrage

CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Stock Market Crash
- buying on margin
Unequal Distribution of Income
Installment Buying
Overproduction and Underconsumption
Laissez-faire government

EFFECTS OF THE DEPRESSION
Unemployment
Hoovervilles
Dust Bowls
Bonus Army


GOVERNMENT’S REACTION TO THE DEPRESSION
President Hoover
 Rugged Individualism –
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) –
FDR’s New Deal
3 R’s
Relief -
Recovery -
Reform -
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
Social Security Act (SSA)
Wagner Act
(National Labor Relations Act)
Fair Labor Standards Act
FDR’s Court Packing Plan