The Roaring 20s and the Great Depression

  

The Roaring 20s and the Great Depression

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Digital History textbook:

1920s, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=13&smtid=2 (Links to an external site.)

Great Depression, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=14&smtid=2 (Links to an external site.)

In preparation for the final exam, be able to describe (what is it and when was it?) and analyze (what is its wider significance to the history of the United States?): 

Prohibition; the Harlem Renaissance; Immigration Restriction; modern consumer culture; the New Woman; Black Tuesday; Herbert Hoover; the Bonus Army; the New Deal; the Indian Reorganization Act

Select significant passages from at least three of the following primary sources for your Primary Source Annotation:

Jennie June, The Female Impersonators (1922), click HERE

1924 immigration act, http://library.uwb.edu/Static/USimmigration/43%20stat%20153.pdf

"Filipino Tragedy Continues," The Philippine Review (Seattle) (1931), http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Curriculum%20Packets/Asian%20Americans/Documents/43a.html

Zora Neale Hurston, "Poker!" (1931), http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15902/pg15902-images.html

Carey McWilliams, "Getting Rid of the Mexican," American Mercury (1933), http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=591

Indians at Work (1939), https://archive.org/details/indiansatwork711939unit

Post Primary Source Annotation and Comments on at least five other students' annotations