State vs. federal successes

Growth of consumerism (e.g., hire purchase and buying on the margin)

Mass production and oversupply

Structural weaknesses in the US economy in the 1920s (e.g., disparity between agriculture, traditional and new industries)

The main features of the Great Crash (October 1929)

Impact of government policies

Responses of Hoover government and industry to the Great Crash

Collapse of the financial system

Mass unemployment and its social impact (e.g., Hoovervilles and employment discrimination)

Roosevelt's responses to opposition

Development of New Deal policies and the need for the Second New Deal

Opposition from the conservative right