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76835-41973500Name: Answer the following questions as you view each of the presentations of the Core Content and read the notes from Module 9! Click below each question to type your response. Please have all of your answers in either blue or red color. This portion of Module 9 is worth 50 points!VUS.10a; Pop Culture of the 20’s and 30’s1. What is popular culture?2. What forms of entertainment were popular during the 1920’s and 1930’s?3. What is mass media?4. How did Franklin Roosevelt use radio to benefit the ideas for his programs?5. What were the various ways the cinema (movies) was used?6. How did the mass media serve as a “nationalizing” agent?7. Describe the significance of the Scopes Trial:8. How did women challenge their traditional roles during the 1920’s and 30’s?9. What were the results of the mounting opposition to open immigration?10. What was prohibition?11. Describe the un-anticipated results of the prohibition experiment:12. How did popular culture of the 1920’s reflect the prosperity of America?VUS.10b; The Crash!1. When was the stock market crash?2. Why was stock speculation so dangerous?3. What were the general causes of the stock market crash?4. Why did banks lose their money when the stock market crashed?5. How did the laws of supply and demand encourage the crash?6. What happened to money people had invested in banks that closed?VUS.10c; Causes and Impact of the Great Depression1. What is an economic depression?2. How did the stock market crash help bring about the beginning of the Great Depression?3. How did the Federal Reserve help cause further economic collapse?4. How did high tariffs (like the Hawley-Smoot Tariff) help cause the Great Depression?5. What were the general effects of the Great Depression?6. Why was there a decrease in demand for goods?7. What did many farmers need to do in response to foreclosures?8. Look carefully at the image titled “The Employment Exchange”. Identify two statements about the Depression the artist is trying to make.VUS.10d; The Great Depression and the New Deal1. What is an economic depression?2. What caused the stock market to crash? When did it happen?3. How would the stock market crash help cause the Great Depression?4. What was the problem with the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?5. How did the Great Depression affect the lives of the American people?6. What is a foreclosure?7. What did Franklin Roosevelt promise America in 1932?8. What did Franklin Roosevelt say about how America feels?9. What were the “3 R’s” of the New Deal and how were each supposed to work?10. Identify two examples of Relief Programs:11. Identify two examples of Recovery Programs:12. Identify two examples of Reform Programs:13. What was the purpose of the Social Security Act?14. Which of these programs are still around today?15. In what ways did the New Deal change the relationship between the American People and the Government?16. How did the New Deal help out labor organizations?17. What happened to the size and power of the government under the New Deal?18. Did the New Deal bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression? ................
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