Students should be able to identify and explain the importance of the following people, events, and concepts:
"Black Tuesday"
"underemployed"
"Dust Bowl"
"Okies"
Scottsboro Case
International Labor Defense
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Walker Evans
Ben Shahn
Margaret Bourke-White
Dorothea Lange
Erskine Caldwell
Richard Wright Amos 'n Andy Dick Tracy The Lone Ranger
Jack Benny
George Burns
Gracie Allen
The Hindenberg
Orson Welles
King Vidor Our Daily Bread
John Ford The Grapes of Wrath
Frank Capra Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Gold Diggers of 1933
Marx Brothers
Walt Disney
Mae West Gone With the Wind Life
John Dos Passos
Popular Front
John L. Lewis
Spanish Civil War
Francisco Franco
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
American Communist Party
Socialist Party of America
Norman Thomas
Southern Tenant Farmer's Union
H.L. Mitchell
Hamilton Fish
Martin Dies
Pare Lorentz The Plow that Broke the Plains
James Agee Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
John Steinbeck
Herbert Hoover
Agricultural Marketing Act
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
"Hoovervillles"
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Farmer's Holiday Association
"Bonus Army"
Douglas MacArthur
Franklin Delano Roosevelt