Major Themes:

• The rejection of world leadership, but not isolationism
• Cultural conflicts of the 1920s
• The failure of prohibition
• Government and business, was this really laissez faire?
• Organized Intolerance
• The persistence of progressive reform
• The role and responsibilities of government in society
• The New Deal and the Welfare State
• Hoover as the first of the "new" presidents
• Social, economic and political causes and impacts of the depression

Chapter 32 American Life in the Roaring Twenties Lecture Notes on Ch 32 Ch 32 Study Guide Ch 32 Key Terms Consumerism 1920's Theme Questions & Discussion Questions 1920's Essay Post WWI America & its Intolerances 'The Birth of a Nation': When Hollywood Glorified the KKK Reading

Chapter 33 The Politics of Boom & Bust Lecture Notes on Ch 33 Ch 33 Study Guide Ch 33 Key Terms Don't Blame Hoover Essay The Ordeal Of Herbert Hoover The Great Depression Notes Hoover vs. FDR DBQ

Chapter 34 - The Great Depression & the New Deal Lecture Notes on Ch 34 Ch 34 Study Guide Ch 34 Key Terms Causes of the Depression PowerPoint The Great Depression Begins PowerPoint F.D.R.'s Philosophy & the 1st New Deal PowerPoint FDR's Second Term & Opposition from the Left & the Right PowerPoint Second New Deal & Labor PowerPoint The Bonus March: Herbert Hoover's View Reading Great New Deal Web Site

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