The Roaring 20s - This Unit will be worth 200 points
IDs. - Define these Key terms and Id these people: – Who, What When Where and
1. Dawes Plan 1924
4. Henry Ford / Assembly Line
2. “Return to Normalcy”
5. The Jazz Singer- (the movie)
3. Policy of Isolationism
6. John L. Lewis
WHY
Comprehension:
1. USE ONE PIECE OF TYPING PAPER FOR EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: You must
color your drawings.
a. Define the term Prohibition. Restate the term in your own words. State an example of
Prohibition. Neatly Draw & Color a picture detailing the definition. You should include a
speakeasy, organized crime, bootlegging, or religious fundamentalism etc.
2.
What events brought disgrace upon the Harding presidency? Was Harding to blame? Explain
your answer using historical examples.
3.
How did Americans react to the news of the Bolshevik Revolution? Include the following: Red
Scare (1919ism), Michael Palmer (Raids), Sacco and Vanzetti, Ku Klux Klan (1920s), and
Immigration Acts (1920s). Do you think Americans were justified in their fear of radicals and
foreigners in the 1920s? Explain your answer.
4.
Why did so many African Americans migrate during the Great Migration from the South to the
North from 1916 and 1920? What types of discrimination did they face in northern cities?
5.
Name two American heroes from the 1920s and tell why they were popular at that time.
6.
Explain how did the flapper represent the ‘new woman’ of the 1920s?
7.
Why was Harlem the center of the African American renaissance? Name four authors, musicians,
or actor/actresses of the movement. What were some of the important literary themes of the
writers? How was it a "rebirth?"
8.
How did W.E.B. DuBois’s hopes for the future of black people differ from those of Booker T.
Washington? How did Marcus Garvey’s views differ from the other two?
9.
How were religious issues and fundamentalism at odd with the modernist view of the teaching of
evolution? How did the Scopes Trial test fundamentalism? Which positions did William Jennings
Bryan and Clarence Darrow each represent in the Trial?
10. Why is the term Lost Generation used to describe some writers of the 1920s? Name three such
writers and their works.
On a map of the United States label the following: Unless directed otherwise use a black star. MAKE
SURE YOU LABEL EVERYTHING!!!
1. Draw a saxophone on Harlem, NYC
2. Draw a monkey on Dayton, TN
3. Washington, DC
4. Draw a tea kettle on Teapot Dome – WY
5. Draw a trumpet on – New Orleans, LA
6. Draw a ‘bootleg’ on Chicago
7. Draw Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles (label Major Cities along the way and put two gas
stations with 25¢ per gallon.)
***I will only accept neat work! –
Sloppy work, hurried work – Will BE ASSIGNED A
GRADE OF ZERO***