Honors American History
Unit 5:  Contrasting Decades

Reading Schedule
In preparation
for class on…	Read…	Identify…	
Terms in bold print should be identified using the “CaDRES” format (if appropriate).	
Friday
December 2	Chap 19 – Sec 1
Postwar Havoc	RC - Summarize the labor unrest of the postwar years
•	communism
•	Red Scare, Palmer Raids
•	National Origins Act of 1924
•	Ku Klux Klan (see also p. 649)
•	Sacco and Vanzetti trial, anarchism	
Tuesday
December 6	Chap 20 – Sec 1
American Life Changes	RC – Summarize the new roles for women in the 1920s 
•	flapper
•	fundamentalism, Scopes trial
•	Prohibition, bootleggers, speakeasies	
Thursday
December 8	Chap 20 – Sec 2
Harlem Renaissance	•	Great Migration
•	Harlem Renaissance (see esp. pp. 657-659)
•	Marcus Garvey, UNIA, “back to Africa” movement	
Friday
December 9		Mid-Unit 5 Quiz	
Monday
December 12	Chap 21 – Sec 1
The Great Crash	RC – What factors made the 1920s economy appear prosperous?
RC – What weaknesses existed in the 1920s economy?
•	buying on margin
•	Black Tuesday
RC – Summarize the effects of the stock market crash	
Tuesday
December 13	
Chap 21 – Sec 3
Hoover as President	•	“rugged individualism,” voluntary cooperation
•	Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
•	Bonus Army March (see also p. 687)
RC – Explain why Hoover’s efforts in dealing with the Depression were ineffective	
Thursday
December 15	Chap 22 – Sec 1
Launching the New Deal	•	Election of 1932
•	public works
•	fireside chats
RC – Summarize the New Deal’s goals (relief, recovery, reform) and give one specific example of each
RC – Identify FDR’s major critics and the primary criticism of each: Huey Long, Fr. Charles Coughlin, Francis Townsend	
Friday-Tuesday
December 16-20		Midterm Exams	
December 21-January 2		Christmas Break	
Tuesday
January 3	Chap 22 – Sec 2
Second New Deal	•	Second New Deal
•	Social Security Act
•	Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
•	FDR’s court-packing plan
•	deficit-spending, John Maynard Keynes (pronounced “canes”)	
Thursday
January 5	Chap 22 – Sec 4
Analyzing the New Deal	RC - How did the New Deal change American society? (pp. 724-5)
RC - What were some of the limits of the New Deal? (pp. 725-6)
RC - Why did the New Deal end? (pp. 726-7)	
Friday, January 6 & Monday, January 9 – Unit 5 Test & Essay (Contrasting Decades)	
Essay Questions
You will be expected to answer several of these questions in essay form on the unit test, in class, and/or at home.

1)	Analyze Americans’ nativist responses to immigrants and radicals during the post-World War I Red Scare.

2)	Compare and contrast the values of “modern” Americans and “traditional” Americans in the 1920s.  Analyze these differences by examining the following:
o	flappers and women’s roles
o	religion and the Scopes trial
o	alcohol and Prohibition

3)	Analyze the effects of the Great Migration on American society, in general, and on African Americans, in particular.

4)	Analyze the ways the Great Depression altered the lives of the American people.

5)	Compare and contrast the ways in which President Hoover and President Roosevelt handled the Great Depression. 

6)	To what extent were the programs of the New Deal effective in solving the problems of the Great Depression?  

Ohio’s Learning Standards
The following content statements from Ohio’s Learning Standards (2012) will be studied in this unit.

Racial intolerance, anti-immigrant attitudes and the Red Scare contributed to social unrest after World War I. (CS #17)

An improved standard of living for many, combined with technological innovations in communication, transportation and industry, resulted in social and cultural changes and tensions. (CS #18)

 Movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, African-American migration, women’s suffrage and Prohibition all contributed to social change. (CS #19)

The Great Depression was caused, in part, by the federal government’s monetary policies, stock market speculation, and increasing consumer debt. The role of the federal government expanded as a result of the Great Depression. (CS #20)