Quiz #3-US History -Chaffe Chapter 4-5 -20 Points

1: Discuss the "Roaring twenties" How do thbe stereotypes of the decade match the realities of the 1920's? The Roaring twenties is an era in our history widely seen as one of our greatest times of prosperity, the age of the lauphably unenforcable prohibition, of great change in the lives of normal americans, and the time of women breaking free from millenia-old traditions. True, the time was a relatively prosperous one for people of all classes, for this was the decade of widespread ownership of things previously exclusive mostly to the rich like Personal Automibiles, Radios, made cheaper through the power of mass production. But this, unfortunately, was not caused by true buying power on the part of most people, as over half population was unable to earn enouph money to support the new standard of living, procuring this new american life by spending money they did not have through the new and wonderous power of credit. Women, though being much more active recrearationally, were unable to really change the fundemental strucure of soceity in referance to themselves, and ethnic minorities did not have the eqoulity that some think they did; the klu klux klan had a massive resurgance, and ethnic seperation dominated many cities.

2: Compare the repiblicam philosophy of geverment in the 1920's with FDR's New Deal in the 1930's: The Philsophy of the republican goverement of the 20's seemed largely passive until hoover, who's changes were too little too late because of the crisis at hand during his presidency. The Lieazes-faire economy, it seemed, was doing its job and there was little reason to fix what did not seem broken. The New Deal, however, represented, a desisive, problem by problem intervention by the goverment, the desperate times of the depression calling for desperate measures. under this radical "war" on the economic crisis, america came closer to full on socialism than it ever had been, regulation, funding, and even outright controll of things from banks to industry to food was taken.

3: Describe some of the great social and culteral changes in the 1920's and 1930's

cities became larger, owing to great surges of migration, and more efficiant agriculteral methods destroying many country jobs. Women became more active, as already mentioned, a spirit of good times and economic growth pervaded. Though the conflict between old and new was far more two sided than is often assumed, the underlying spirit of the new was far louder, and to some degree more succecful, seeing many old religious and culteral veiws that were once unassailabole declining, and a bigger role for the us goverment became more acceptable by her people

4: Discuss the opponents of the New Deal. What happened to the New Deal after 1936? Despite its popularity and relative sucess, the new deal had its fair share of opponents, including most people who had high or even middle of the road incomes. to make matters worse, FDR, making several mistakes, like tampering with the holy constittution of the USA, attacking consertatives within his own party, and trying to load the seats of the supreme court, made himself many enemies in both parties, and making the goverment and the people unrecoverably skeptical of now so-called reform, many comparing him to dictators like stalin.