1. The Booming Economy

1. How the American economy worked - A look at capitalism, American-style 2. Markets - Understanding how markets can grow 3. Two sectors of the economy: the relationship between agriculture and industry 4. Government Policy and the Economy 5. Why did the American economy boom in the 1920s? 6. The importance of the balance of power in the American constitution 7. Herbert Hoover 8. How did Americans gain from the boom?

2. The Roaring Twenties

1. The Roaring Twenties - What was it? To what extent did it happen? 2. Analysing American Society 3. How the lives of women changed 4. Famous Flappers 5. Prejudice - The roots of prejudice, the types of prejudice and how it shows itself 6. The Futility of Prohibition 7. Al Capone 8. Did the lives of Americans improve in the 1920s?

3. The Wall Street Crash

1. Fundamental weaknesses in the American economy 2. The problem with debt - You can't live without it but it can be dangerous to live with it 3. Hoover and Roosevelt - A contrast in style and degree rather than ideology 4. Unemployment 5. The Cyclical Economy 6. How can a bank go bankrupt? 7. The Crash: What a family might go through 8. The impact of the Crash on the American economy 9. The social consequences of the Crash

4. The New Deal

1. Roosevelt's Overall Aims 2. The purpose of the New Deal - A focus on confidence 3. The Hundred Days 4. The TVA - Looking for Recovery and Reform in the TVA initiative 5. The "American Way" and the New Deal 6. Measuring the success of the New Deal 7. What did Hitler do? 8. Eleanor Roosevelt