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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Ap Us History Study Guide, Period Seven: 1890 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning module for Advanced Placement U.S. History course material for 1890-1945. Comprehensive study guide with multi-media sources including, videos, essays, historical documents and timeline.
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression (1920 1939)

For Students 9th - 10th
Getting back to the daily grind after World War I led to an age of consumerism and wealth which created an entirely different culture of affluence in the United States until Black Tuesday in 1929. Find lessons, videos, slideshows, and...
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Msu Libraries: American Radicalism

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Radicalism Collection holds over 17,000 items. It includes books, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemeral material covering a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, and economic issues in America. The emphasis...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Depression and War

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at the Great Depression in America and the events of World War II under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Adapted from A History of US by Joy Hakim. Includes timeline, glossary, quiz, historic photographs, audioclips, links for further...
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US Senate

Historical Minutes: An Era of Investigations: 1921 1940

For Students 9th - 10th
Read these series of essays written by U.S. Senate historians that detail important events and people during the era of investigations in the Senate just before the Great Depression and continuing up to the entrance to World War II. The...
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Digital History

Digital History: Keynes and the Multiplier [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
John Maynard Keynes was an English economist who had definite ideas on how to end the Great Depression. Read about his economic theories and see whether Franklin Roosevelt followed his advice. Charts show information about the country's...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Economic Growth and Stability

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of the early 20th Century, post-depression era period of economic growth and stability brought about by Keynesian economics and the New Deal.
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Other

Cowles Library: Editorial Cartoons of J. N. "Ding" Darling

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive collection of editorial cartoons created by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist J. N. Ding Darling, who was active during the first half of the twentieth century and commented on all the significant happenings and history...
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Flow of History

Flow of History: Post War Boom and Bust

For Students 9th - 10th
A great graphic and explanatory text that give a succinct description of the boom and bust cycle and resulting problems in the 1920s.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Unit Test

For Students 9th - 10th
A thirteen question unit test over US history from 1890-1945.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Decade That Roared

For Students 5th - 8th
A very brief overview of the decade between the end of World War I and the Great Depression.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Review 1920's Technology, Tensions, and Prohibition

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is filled with review questions and pictures from the 1920s about electrification, radio, broadcasting, tensions, prohibition and other topics from that decade.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: The 20's and 30's

For Teachers 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides an extensive review of the 1920's and 1930's in which students write down their answers to questions, read extra information, and check their answers on the next page.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: 1950s vs. 1920s

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an interactive Venn Diagram activity that allows students to compare and contrast the era of the 1950s with the era of the 1920s.