Atlas - Unit 5: The Crisis of Capitalism and Responses

Wayne RESA

Unit PlannerUS History and Geography

Wayne RESA – SS / Grade 9 / Social Studies / US History and Geography / Week 17 - Week 21

RESA, MAISA MC3 Units

Unit Abstract

In this unit students use primary and secondary sources (including literature and statistics) to understand how this era reshaped modern American capitalism and the role of government. They begin by examining cultural movements in the United States with particular attention to the Harlem Renaissance and the “Lost Generation.” After analyzing literary works to gain insight into the cultural movements emerging in the 1920s, students consider how these developments represented post-World War One tensions and/or social changes in America. Students also explore events from the 1920s such as the Scopes Trial, Second KKK, “new women,” Prohibition, and nativism. They analyze historical arguments that attempt to explain these events in a broader related to the distribution of power among central government, state governments, and the people. context such as the impact of a shifting demography from rural to urban America and the change from a traditional to a new culture. Next, students learn about the rise of consumerism, examine the circular flow model, and explore economic indicators to compare the state of the economy before and after the stock market crash of 1929. In doing so, students examine the causes of the Great Depression (speculation, overproduction, uneven distribution of wealth) and compare it with a recent economic problem. They then assess initial responses to the plight of Americans during the Hoover administration and examine how Americans coped with the economic crisis. After analyzing the competing views of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt through excerpts from popular speeches, students explore a variety of New Deal programs and their impact on American life. As students assess the shifting role of government in American society during the New Deal period, they evaluate the New Deal in light of their own views of the role and purposes of government. They then explore the growing opposition to the New Deal, evaluate the relationship among the branches of government, and consider constitutional issues that faced the nation during the New Deal. To conclude the unit, students examine the legacy of the New Deal. They read and discuss the historiography surrounding this topic, and consider how the responses to the Great Depression reflected the changing meaning of freedom in the United States.

Unit 5: The Crisis of Capitalism and Responses - Unit Word Document with Contextualized HSCEs

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Stage One - Desired Results

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Standards

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Compelling Question

How did domestic and international events affect the changing meaning of freedom and equality?

Supporting Questions

How did post-war changes in society manifest themselves in cultural conflict?
How did the economic, political, and social/cultural choices in the early 1900s contribute to the Great Depression?
How did the responses to the Great Depression both reflect and then shape the meaning of freedom in the United States?

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Content (Key Concepts)

checks and balances

consumerism

depression

economic indicators

executive power

fundamentalism

judicial review

limited government

nativism

social conflict

social welfare

Skills (Intellectual Processes)

Cause and Effect

Compare and Contrast

Description

Evidentiary Argument

Identifying Perspectives

Issue Analysis

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Stage Two - Assessment Evidence

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Unit Assessment Tasks

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Stage Three - Learning Plan

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Lesson Plan Sequence

Unit 5 - Instructional Organization Document
Unit 5 - Supplemental Materials

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Resources

Resources

Equipment/Manipulative

Highlighters, one per student

Note cards, blank white paper.

Student Resources

Aliens. BackStory With the American History Guys. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. August, 2008. 1 October 2015 http://www.backstoryradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/aliens.jpg

Aspiration by Aaron Douglass, 1936, Oil on canvas. University of Virginia. 1 October 2015 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA03/staples/douglas/aspirations.html

“August Savage posing with her sculpture, 1938.” 1 October 2015 http://sirismm.si.edu/aaa/newPOA/aaa_fedeartp14_5459.jpg

Barone, Michael. “Obama’s New Deal No Better Than Old One.” Real Clear Politics. 28 Oct. 2009. 1 October 2015 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/obamas_new_new_deal_no_better.html

Burke, Jacob. The Lord Provides 1934. Library of Congress. 1 October 2015 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/goldstein/9.jpg

City Life During the Great Depression. University School of Milwaukee. 15 Dec. 2009

Clashes of Cultures in the 1910-1920. Ohio State University. 1 October 2015 http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/Introduction/Intro.htm

Claude McKay. “If We Must Die.” Poem Hunter.com. 1 October 2015 http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-we-must-die/

Court Packing - Judicial Reorganization and the End of the New Deal. University of Virginia.

1 October 2015 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/volpe/newdeal/court.html

The Crisis of Credit Visualized. YouTube. 1 October 2015

http://www.crisisofcredit.com

Document Analysis Worksheets. National Archives. 1 October 2015 http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/

Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An OverviewPrints and Photographs Reading Room. 1 October 2015 http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html

Economic History of the United States. Experts.com. 1 October 2015 http://en.allexperts.com/e/e/ec/economic_history_of_the_united_states.htm

Edsforth, Ronald. The New Deal: America’s Response to the Great Depression. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. 2000. pp. 285-288.

Elliot, TS. The Hollow Men. 1925. 1 October 2015 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/784/

Future of the Supreme Court. Chicago Tribune. Feb. 7, 1937. University of Virginia. 1 October 2015 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA02/volpe/newdeal/docs/trib_ed_2.7.37.html

Gourley, Catherine. Flappers and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from 1918 Through the 1920s. Twenty-First Century Books, September 2007. 1 October 2015 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51U1oxSpWAL.jpg

The Great Depression. Eyewitness to History.com. 1 October 2015 http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief1.htm

“The Great Depression.” The Money Instructor.com. 1 October 2015 http://www.moneyinstructor.com/docs/pdf/greatdepressionles.pdf

“The Great Depression in America.” American History: America's Economy: Sorrow and Hope.

1 October 2015 Discovery Education http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com

“The Harlem Renaissance” Discovery Education. 1 October 2015 http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=D1F10809-C5CE-41FE-B7F7-6F45C97F098E&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

Hemingway, Ernest. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. 15 Dec. 2009

Hogue, Alexandre. Dust Bowl Painting, 1933. 1 October 2015 http://20thcenturyart.suite101.com/article.cfm/portraits_of_the_great_depression

Hoover, Herbert. Speech in 1928. Rugged Individualism. Teaching American History.org. 1 October 2015 http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=953

Hughes, Langston. “I look at the world.” About.com. 1 October 2015 <http://poetry.about.com/b/2009/02/03/a-trio-of-new-poems-by-langston-hughes.htm>.

“Immigration Restrictions.” Class of Cultures in the 1920s and 1920s. Ohio State University.

1 October 2015 http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/Imm_KKK/antiimmigrationKKK-index.htm

Jones, William P. “Obama’s New Deal.” The Nation. 13 Nov. 2008. 1 October 2015 http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081201/jones

"Keep on Guarding the Gates." Current Opinion, June 1923, pp. 652-4. 1 October 2015 http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/Imm_KKK/Immigration%20Pages/Documents/guardingthegates.htm

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Racism and National Consciousness News. November, 2008. 1 October 2015 http://racismandnationalconsciousnessnews.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/knights-of-the-ku-klux-klan-washington-dc-1.jpg

Lange, Dorthea. “Photo - Migrant Mother, 1936.” Eyewitness to History.com. 1 October 2015 http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/migrantmother.htm

Lavender, Catherine. The New Woman. City University of New York American Studies Department. 15 December 2009

“Lesson 1: Measuring the Great Depression.” The Great Depression. St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. 1 October 2015 http://stlouisfed.org/greatdepression/pdf/GD_d-lesson_1.pdf

Lydon, Sandy. Snakes in the Garden: The History and Racism of the KKK in Santa Cruz County. 15 December 2009

Marchand, Roland. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the “Court Packing” Controversy of 1937: A Documentary Source Problem.” A Teachers History Bag of Tricks. 15 Dec. 2009

Marsh, Reginald. Painting, 1933. Sheldon Museum of Art. 1 October 2015

http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Marsh_R/ParkBench_AS.html

McKay, Claude. “Enslaved.” 1921. Poem Hunter.com. 1 October 2015

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/enslaved/#end

McKay, Claude “To One Coming North.” 1921. 1 October 2015

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-one-coming-north/

Motley, Jr., Archibald. Cocktails, c. 1926. Traditional Fine Arts Organization. 1 October 2015

http://www.tfaoi.com/musimage/mnews332.jpg

A Photo Essay on the Great Depression. Modern American Poetry. University of Illinois. 1 October 2015 http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/depression/photoessay.htm

“Please Help US, Mr. President –Black Americans write to FDR.” History Matters. George Mason University. 1 October 2015 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/137/

Powell, Richard. African American Art. Palmer Hayden painting, “Jeunesse.” 1 October 2015 http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/h/images/harlem_hayden_jeunesse_lg.jpg

Pound, Erza. “The Garret.” Poem Hunter.com. 1 October 2015 http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-garret/#end

Pound, Ezra. “Lone, Dead the Long Year.” Poem Hunter.com. 1 October 2015 http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ione-dead-the-long-year/

Pound, Ezra. “These Fought in Any Case.” Poem Hunter.com. 1 October 2015 http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/these-fought-in-any-case/

Presidential Politics. Franklin D. Roosevelt. American Experience. 1 October 2015 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/32_f_roosevelt/f_roosevelt_politics.html

Prohibition. October, 2008. 1 October 2015 http://moretimespace.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/prohibition.jpg

Prohibition Poster, The Agonist. 1 October 2015

http://agonist.org/files/active/1/ProhibitionPoster.jpg

Reinhardt, Claudia and Bill Ganzel, the Ganzel Group. Farming in the 1930s. 2003. 1 October 2015 http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_01.html

Rosenberg, James N. Drawing: Oct 29 Dies Irae ("Days of Wrath") 1929. 1 October 2015 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/goldstein/48.jpg

Scopes Trial. Houston Press Blogs: Hairballs. January 12, 2009. 1 October 2015. http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/scopestrial012109.jpg

Scopes Trial Transcripts. 1 October 2015 http://faculty.smu.edu/jclam/science_religion/trial_transcripts.html

Social Studies Help Center. 1 October 2015 http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_13_Notes.htm

Suri, Jeremi. Era Letters. University of Wisconsin. Depression 15 Dec. 2009

“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”: FDR’s First Inaugural Address. 1 October 2015 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5057/

Tygiel, Jules. San Francisco State University. 15 Dec. 2009

Uys, Errol Lincoln. “What was life like during the Great Depression.” 1 October 2015 http://www.erroluys.com/WhatLifeWasLikeintheGreatDepression.htm

Waring, Laura Wheeler. Marian Anderson, 1944. Explore History. 15 Dec. 2009

Wheelock, David C. “What Caused the Great Depression?” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 1 October 2015

http://www.stlouisfed.org/education

Wilkinson, Will. “Obama’s Stale New Deal.” The Cato Institute. 1 October 2015 http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3969

The Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Civil Rights and Labor History Photo and Document Repository. Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington. 1 October 2015 http://depts.washington.edu/labpics/repository/v/KKK/watcher/Women+of+KKK+Ad.jpg.html

“Written Document Analysis Worksheet,” National Archives. 1 October 2015 http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/document.html

You and your whole race by Langston Hughes. About.com 1 October 2015 http://poetry.about.com/b/2009/02/03/a-trio-of-new-poems-by-langston-hughes.htm

Teacher Resource

*1920’s. South Dakota Department of Education. July 2002. 15 December 2009

*Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority. American Law and Legal Information. Great American Court Cases vol. 18. 1 October 2015 http://law.jrank.org/pages/13456/Ashwander-v-Tennessee-Valley-Authority.html

*Carter v.Carter Coal Company. American Law and Legal Information. Great American Court Cases vol. 18. 1 October 2015 http://law.jrank.org/pages/13621/Carter-v-Carter-Coal-Co.html

*FDR Cartoon Archive. Paul Bachorz. October 5, 1998. 1 October 2015 http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/

*FDR and the Supreme Court. 1 October 2015 http://newdeal.feri.org/court/cases.htm

The Great Depression and the New Deal. Foundation for Teaching Economics. 1 October 2015 http://www.fte.org/teachers/programs/history/lessons/lesson09.htm

Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials. Library of Congress. July 31, 2008. 1 October 2015 <http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/harlem/harlem.html>.

*Helping the People. The Great Depression. October 2004.

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum. National Archives and Records Administration. 1 October 2015 http://hoover.archives.gov/

*Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell. American Law and Legal Information. Great American Court Cases vol. 18. 1 October 2015 http://law.jrank.org/pages/13455/Home-Building-Loan-Association-v-Blaisdell.html

McElvaine, Robert S. Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man. The University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

*Nebbia V. New York. Michaelariens.com. 1 October 2015 http://www.michaelariens.com/ConLaw/cases/nebbia.htm

New Deal Achievements. Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center. 2007. 15 December 2009

New Deal Network. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. 2003. 1 October 2015 http://newdeal.feri.org/

*NLRB v. Jones Laughlin Steel Corp. American Law and Legal Information. Great American Court Cases vol. 18. 1 October 2015 http://law.jrank.org/pages/8822/NLRB-v-Jones-Laughlin-Steel-Corp.html

Oakland Schools Teaching Research Writing Website: Skills Progression & Lessons http://www.osteachingresearchwriting.org/

Picturing America. NEH. 1 October 2015 http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/index.php?sec=gallery

*Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States. American Law and Legal Information. Great American Court Cases vol. 18. 1 October 2015 http://law.jrank.org/pages/13620/L-Schechter-Poultry-Corporation-v-United-States.html

*Social Security Online. U.S. Social Security Administration. Aug. 20, 2008. 1 October 2015 http://www.ssa.gov/

*Steward Machine Co. v. Collector of Internal Revenue. Social Security Online. 1 October 2015 http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/supreme2.html

Tennessee v. John Scopes: The “Monkey Trial”. Famous Trials in American History. University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School. April 25, 2005. 1 October 2015 http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm

*Tennessee Valley Authority. 1 October 2015 http://www.tva.gov/

*U.S. Department of Labor. 1 October 2015 http://www.dol.gov/

*U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. June 20, 2005. 1 October 2015 http://www.sec.gov/

*West Coast Hotel v. Parish. American Law and Legal Information. Great American Court Cases vol. 1 October 2015 http://law.jrank.org/pages/13595/West-Coast-Hotel-v-Parrish.html

Resources for Further Professional Knowledge

Allen, Frederick Lewis. Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America (1940).

American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl. PBS Online. 1998. 1 October 2015 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/

Boyle, Kevin. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2004.

Drake, Frederick D. and Sarah Drake Brown. A Systematic Approach to Improve Students’ Historical Thinking. The History Teacher. 1 October 2015 http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/36.4/drake.html

Drop Me Off in Harlem. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. March 2003. 15 December 2009

Ferguson, Jeffrey. The Harlem Renaissance: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008.

Flint Sit-Down Strike Audio Gallery. HistoricalVoices.org. Michigan State University. 15 December 2009 http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/index.php

Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. Foner traces the idea of freedom and its evolution in American history. For a brief description, see http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-9780393319620-1

Historical Background and Development of Social Security. Social Security Online. January 14, 2008. 15 December 2009 http://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html

Kennedy, David M. The American People in the Great Depression. NY: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Leuchtenburg, William. Franklin D. Roosevelt and The New Deal (1963).

Powell, Jim. FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression. Crown Forum 2003.

Wineburg, Sam. Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.

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Expectations/Standards

MI: Social Studies (2007)

High School

Civics & Government

C1 Conceptual Foundations of Civic and Political Life
1.1 Nature of Civic Life, Politics, and Government Explain the meaning of civic life, politics, and government through the investigation of such questions as: What is civic life? What are politics? What is government? What are the purposes of politics and government?

1.1.3 Identify and explain competing arguments about the necessity and purposes of government (such as to protect inalienable rights, promote the general welfare, resolve conflicts, promote equality, and establish justice for all).

C2 Origins and Foundations of Government of the United States of America
2.1 Origins of American Constitutional Government (Note: Much of this content should have been an essential feature of students’ 5th and 8th grade coursework. High School U.S. History and Geography teachers, however, revisit this in USHG Foundational Expectations 1.1, 1.2, and 2.1.) Explain the fundamental ideas and principles of American constitutional government and their philosophical and historical origins through investigation of such questions as: What are the philosophical and historical roots of the foundational values of American constitutional government? What are the fundamental principles of American constitutional government?

2.1.4 Explain challenges and modifications to American constitutional government as a result of significant historical events such as the American Revolution, the Civil War, expansion of suffrage, the Great Depression, and the civil rights movement.

C3 STRUCTURE AND Functions of Government in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
3.1 Structure, Functions, and Enumerated Powers of National Government Describe how the national government is organized and what it does through the investigation of such questions as: What is the structure of the national government? What are the functions of the national government? What are its enumerated powers?

3.1.5 Use case studies or examples to examine tensions between the three branches of government (e.g., powers of the purse and impeachment, advise and consent, veto power, and judicial review).

Economics

E2 THE NATIONAL ECONOMY OF THE UNITES STATES OF AMERICA
2.1 Understanding National Markets
Describe inflation, unemployment, output, and growth, and the factors that cause changes in those conditions, and describe the role of money and interest rates in national markets.

2.1.2 Circular Flow and the National Economy – Using the concept of circular flow, analyze the roles of and the relationships between households, business firms, financial institutions, and government and nongovernment agencies in the economy of the United States.

2.1.7 Economic Indicators – Using a number of indicators, such as GDP, per capita GDP, unemployment rates, and Consumer Price Index, analyze the characteristics of business cycles, including the characteristics of peaks, recessions, and expansions.

US History & Geography

USHG ERA 7 – The Great Depresion and World War II (1920-1945)
7.1 Growing Crisis of Industrial Capitalism and Responses Evaluate the key events and decisions surrounding the causes and consequences of the global depression of the 1930s and World War II.

7.1.1 The Twenties – Identify and explain the significance of the cultural changes and tensions in the “Roaring Twenties” including
• cultural movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance and the “lost generation”
• the struggle between “traditional” and “modern” America (e.g., Scopes Trial, immigration restrictions, Prohibition, role of women, mass consumption)

7.1.2 Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression – Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression by analyzing
• the political, economic, environmental, and social causes of the Great Depression including fiscal policy, overproduction, under consumption, and speculation, the 1929 crash, and the Dust Bowl (National Geography Standards 14 and 15; p. 212 and 214)
• the economic and social toll of the Great Depression, including unemployment and environmental conditions that affected farmers, industrial workers and families (National Geography Standard 15, p. 214)
• Hoover’s policies and their impact (e.g., Reconstruction Finance Corporation)

7.1.3 The New Deal – Explain and evaluate Roosevelt’s New Deal Policies including
• expanding federal government’s responsibilities to protect the environment (e.g., Dust Bowl and the Tennessee Valley), meet challenges of unemployment, address the needs of workers, farmers, poor, and elderly (National Geography Standard 14, p. 212)
• opposition to the New Deal and the impact of the Supreme Court in striking down and then accepting New Deal laws
• consequences of New Deal policies (e.g., promoting workers’ rights, development of Social Security program, and banking and financial regulation conservation practices, crop subsidies) (National Geography Standard 16, p. 216)

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