The Roaring Twenties Book
Your task is to create a book summarizing American culture and politics in the 1920s. Each day you will have 1
page to create with information and illustrations. Your final product should be informative, creative, and neat.
Title Page
The front cover should have a title (ex: The Roaring Twenties; The Jazz Age, etc.) and your name.
Fear – Pages 618 - 624
Title the first spread of pages “Fear”, describe/define all of the following terms in the context of the 1920s, and
include at least 2 images/illustrations:
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Nativism
Isolationism
Communism
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Sacco & Vanzetti
Ku Klux Klan
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Quotas
Boston Police Strike
Steel Mill Strike
John L Lewis
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
A. Phillip Randolph
Change – Pages 640 – 649, 652 - 654
Title the second spread of pages “Change”, describe/define all of the following terms in the context of the
1920s, and include at least 2 images/illustrations:
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Automobile
Airlines
Urban sprawl
Electrical conveniences
Advertising
Rural versus Urban differences
Prohibition
Speakeasies
Bootleggers
Organized Crime
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Al Capone
Fundamentalism
Scopes Trial
Flappers
Double Standard
New jobs/roles for women
Changes in public schools
News Broadcasts
Radio
Politics & Business – Pages 625 - 633
Title the third spread of pages “Politics & Business”, describe/define all of the following terms in the context of
the 1920s, and include at least 2 images/illustrations:
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Warren G. Harding
Tariffs
Reparations
The Dawes Plan
Scandals
Ohio Gang
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Teapot Dome
Calvin Coolidge
“The business of America is…”
Surplus goods
Credit
Installment plans
Arts & Entertainment – Pages 654 - 663
Title the fourth spread of pages “Arts & Entertainment”, describe/define all of the following terms in the context
of the 1920s, and include at least 2 images/illustrations:
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Entertainment
Sports Heroes
Charles Lindbergh
Movies
George Gershwin
“The Jazz Age”
o Sinclair Lewis
o F. Scott Fitzgerald
o Edna St. Vincent Milay
o Ernest Hemingway
o The Lost Generation
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The Harlem Renaissance
o The Great Migration
o James Weldon Johnson
o Marcus Garvey
o Claude McKay
o Langston Hughes
o Paul Robeson
o Louis Armstrong
o Duke Ellington
o Bessie Smith
Living that ‘20s Life! – Pages 650-651, 664-665, Slang Handout, Literature Sources
On the final spread of pages…
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Create your own title
Write a journal entry about a 1920s prom using at least ten 1920s slang words
Draw a picture of yourself getting all dressed up to go out in the 1920s
Write a verse or stanza from a song or poem from the arts of the Harlem Renaissance or Jazz Age