Study Guides

Unit Summary

In this unit pupils undergo a period study that provides an unfolding narrative which tells a story about a period that shaped the world we live in today. They look at the key events, developments, people and stories that defined the chosen period.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to explain how some groups in the USA lost out during the boom.

Key Notes

• Agriculture and the coal industry suffered from overproduction, tariffs and new competition in the 1920s.
• Native Americans lived in poor conditions on reservations and faced discrimination under US law.
• Poverty, discrimination and racism made African American lives difficult.
• By the 1920s, most immigrants travelling to America came from eastern and southern Europe.
• Recent immigrants faced widespread intolerance.

Vocabulary To Learn

• discrimination: unfair treatment of someone because of their gender, race, sexual orientation, age, disability or religion is described as discrimination
• reservations: reservations are areas of land set aside for use by Native Americans
• segregated: groups of people are segregated if they are separated from one another. In the USA, people were often segregated based on their race
• ghetto: a ghetto is an area of a city where people of a particular race or religion live, especially a poor area
• quota: a quota sets a maximum or minimum number for the amount of people who can do something

Common Mistakes To Avoid

• Losers were only those who belonged to minority groups who suffered because of racism.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

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• American recovery from the Great Depression Study Guide
• American society in the 1920s Study Guide
• Black Power and the Civil Rights Movement Study Guide
• Causes of the 'boom' Study Guide
• Change in Post-War America Study Guide
• Civil rights legislation in the 1960s Study Guide
• Direct action and the Civil Rights Movement Study Guide
• Effects of the Great Depression on American society Study Guide
• Martin Luther King and peaceful protest Study Guide
• McCarthyism and the second Red Scare Study Guide
• Opposition to the New Deal Study Guide
• Post-war American popular culture Study Guide
• President Hoover and the 1932 presidential election Study Guide
• Racial tension in early 20th century America Study Guide
• Roosevelt's New Deal Study Guide
• Segregation in the USA Study Guide
• Social and civil progress in the USA, c.1950-1973 Study Guide
• The American Dream in the 1940s and 1950s Study Guide
• The Great Depression Study Guide
• The New Frontier and Great Society Study Guide
• The Red Scare in 1920s America Study Guide
• The role of Henry Ford in the 'boom' Study Guide
• The US Feminist Movement in the 1960s and 1970s Study Guide
• The Wall Street Crash Study Guide
• Women and the 'boom' in 1920s America Study Guide
• World War Two and the US economy Study Guide
• World War Two and US society Study Guide