The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

Babe Ruth

A Major League Baseball player from the 1910s-1930s and was considered one of the best baseball players of all time.

Jack Dempsey

A world heavyweight boxing champion from 1919-1926 known for his power and ability to knock out larger opponents and inspired generations of boxers

Red Grange

A professional and collegiate football player and broadcaster and is considered one of the 20th century's most famous players

The Great Migration

The movement of five million African Americans out of the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910-1970

The Harlem Renaissance

An intellectual and cultural movement of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship spanning the 1920s-1930s

Zora Neale Hurston

An American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker that portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Voodoo

Langston Hughes

An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist who was considered an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance

James W Johnson

An American writer, civil rights activist, and a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Bank Failures 

Caused the GNP to fall 31% and international trade to fall by 2/3

The Stock Market Crash

Begins on October 24 and led to industrial stocks losing 80% of its value

Herbert Hoover

• President during the first few years of the Great Depression

• Cared more about profit than employment

• Blamed other such as Europe and working class on Depression

• Tariffs on farmers

• Did almost nothing to help unemployed people

Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Instituted the New Deal during his first 100 days

• Defined American liberalism by protecting vulnerable citizens, reforming, rehabilitating, etc.

• Concentrated on three areas: agricultural over production, business failures, and unemployment

• Was president for four terms: first two during Great Depression and last two during WWII

Huey Long

• Opposed the New Deal

• Assessed as the most dangerous political figure in American in the 20th century

Agricultural Adjustment Act

A United States federal law designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses through the government buying livestock for slaughter and paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

A program with the goal of alleviating household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs in local and state government

Civilian Conservation Corps

A voluntary government work relief program for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28

Public Works Administration

A large-scale public works construction agency with the goal of supplying employment, stabilizing buying power, and helping revive the economy

Tennessee Valley Authority

A federally owned electric utility corporation with the initial goal to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, regional planning, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley

National Recovery Administration

The goal of the administration was to eliminate "cut throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices

Social Security Act

Created the Social Security program as well as insurance against unemployment

National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)

A foundational statute of United States labor law that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes

Works Progress Administration

An agency that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads

Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

Created the right to a minimum wage, "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week, and prohibits employment of minors in "oppressive child labor"

The First New Deal

• AAA

• FERA

• CCC

• PWA

• TVA

• NRA

The Second New Deal

• SSA

• NLRA

• WPA

• FLSA