early 1920 s and the crash of the stock market

  1. How and why did the Republican administrations of the 1920s support business?
  2. How and why did the automobile become such a driving force in the U.S. economy in the 1920s?
  3. Why was Henry Ford so central to the new wave of industrialism? What did “Fordism” mean?
  4. What is “welfare capitalism?” Why and how was the practiced in the 1920s?
  5. Who benefitted most and least from economic growth in the 1920s? Why?
  6. What roles did radio play in the social and cultural lives of Americans during the 1920s?
  7. How and why did a new consumer culture develop in the 1920s? What were the characteristics of consumer culture?
  8. To what degree was there a “new woman” emerging in the 1920s? How were the political, social and economic conditions of women changing?
  9. What was the Harlem Renaissance? Who are the artists, writers and musicians associated with it? What it the significance of the Harlem Renaissance?
  10. What did the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti illustrate about the 1920s?
  11. Why was there so much nativist and “anti-radical” sentiment in the 1920s? How did the Immigration Act of 1924 reflect fears and bigotry? What was the significance of this act?
  12. Why and how did the Scopes Trial illustrate the cultural tensions of the 1920s? What was the outcome of the trial?
  13. In summary, how and why was America transformed during the 1920s? How did the developments of that era reflect a modern America?
  14. What role does the stock market play in capitalism? Why did the stock market crash in October 1929? Why did the crash trigger a depression?
  15. Why and how was this depression different from those that occurred previously?
  16. Why did so many banks fail at this time? How did this affect depositors?
  17. Why was there an unequal distribution of wealth and income in the 1920s? How did this affect the economy?
  18. What problems persisted in the international economy? Why did trade policies make the situation worse?
  19. How and why did President Hoover deal with the economic collapse as he did? What steps did he take? How did he continue the trickle-down economics of his immediate predecessors? What limited his actions?
  20. Generally, how did Americans cope with the hardships of the depression? How were men, women, children and families affected?
  21. How were African Americans and Mexican Americans affected by the depression?
  22. Why did so many people blame themselves for the depression? How did this affect their reactions to their plight?
  23. Why and how did Hoover eventually become an object of ridicule?
  24. How did films deal with the depression? Why were they a popular escape from the hard times? Why did the public express some tolerance for outlaws?
  25. Why did unemployed workers march on the Ford Motor Company in March 1932? What were the results of this protest?
  26. How and why were farmers and farm workers protesting? What effect did their protests have?
  27. Why were socialists and communists gaining support in the 1930s?
  28. Why did WWI veterans march on Washington in 1932? Why and how were the Bonus Marchers driven out of the capital? What were the results of this action?
  29. In summary, why did the Great Depression happen? How did people cope? How did the Great Depression change the U.S.?
 
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