Unit 6: The Roaring Twenties
Content Standards and History Skills:
 11.5 Students analyze the political, social, economic and cultural changes that occurred during the
1920s.
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Essential Question: Why was the 1920s considered a decade of cultural conflicts between modern/urban values
and traditional/rural values? How was American culture revolutionized during the 1920s?
Objectives:
 Discuss the policies of Harding, Coolidge, Hoover.
 Compare and Contrast the differing theories about how African Americans should or should not achieve
equality in America.
 Describe how the fear of the spread of Communism influenced American’s attitudes toward immigration
during the 1920s.
 Describe the differences between Traditional and Modern values?
 Describe how the Harlem Renaissance changed the African American Community in the United States.
 Explain the effects that credit and consumerism had on American society.
 Trace the path to the passage if the 18th Amendment and describe its effects on American Society.
 Analyze and describe the changing role of women.
 Discuss the impact of the rise of Hollywood in the 1920s.
Essential Vocab
1920s Presidents
Ch. 8:1
 Warren G. Harding
 Return to Normalcy
 Calvin Coolidge
 Herbert Hoover
Tolerance vs Intolerance
African Americans
Ch. 7:3
 William Du Bois
 Niagara Movement
 NAACP
 Marcus Garvey
 Back to Africa
Movement
 UNIA
 Ku Klux Klan (1920s
Version) ( p. 408)
The First Red Scare
 Mitchel Palmer (p. 3934)
 Palmer Raids (p. 393-4)
Ch. 7:1
 Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
 Anarchists
 National Origins Act
1924
 Eugenics
Science vs Religion
Ch. 7:1
 Scopes Trial
 Fundamentalism
Cultural Changes
Harlem Renaissance
Ch. 7:3
 Langston Hughes
 Jazz
 The Cotton Club
 Zora Neale Hurston
 Duke Ellington
 Louis Armstrong
Economic Changes
Ch. 8:2
 Advertising
 Consumerism
 Credit
Transportation Changes
Ch. 7:2
 Charles Lindbergh
 Planes
Ch. 8:2
 Henry Ford
 Automobiles
 Amelia Earhart
Social Changes
Ch. 7:1
 Flappers
 Al Capone
 Prohibition
 Speakeasies
Ch. 7:2
 Rise of Hollywood
Movie Stars
 The Jazz Singer
 Radio
 Babe Ruth
 Baseball