Expert Learning
Centers
The Roaring ’20’s
Presentation Day
 Please get into your teams from
yesterday.
 Take out worksheet: “Learning Centers”
 Experts – pick up folder and practice your
presentations one more time!
Presentation Directions
 Experts will have 5 minutes to “tell your story”
about your topic. Be enthusiastic and detailed in
your description.
 Group members are to take bullet-point notes on
their worksheet.
 Show and describe the pictures to your audience.
 To check for comprehension, experts are to ask
all the questions on the reading to the group
members. Choose specific students to answer
each question.
 If a student is not able to answer the question, you
need to re-teach the information.
Standard 11.5: Students analyze the major
political, social, economic, technological, and
cultural developments of the 1920s.
3. Examine the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the
Constitution and the Volstead Act (Prohibition).
4. Analyze the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the
changing role of women in society.
5. Describe the Harlem Renaissance and new trends in
literature, music, and art, with special attention to the
work of writers (e.g., Zora Neale Hurston, Langston
Hughes).
6. Trace the growth and effects of radio and movies and their
role in the worldwide diffusion of popular culture.
7. Discuss the rise of mass production techniques, the growth
of cities, the impact of new technologies (e.g., the
automobile, electricity), and the resulting prosperity and
effect on the American landscape.
Today’s Objective
SWBAT discuss the cultural,
technological and social
developments of the 1920’s by
completing expert learning
centers.
Directions: Expert Learning Centers
1920’s
 Your group will be assigned one of the
following topics:
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1. Increasing Consumerism
2. Harlem Renaissance
3. Prohibition
4. Popularity of Radio & Movies
5. Sports Mania
6. Improved Transportation
7. Changing Role of Woman
Directions: Expert Learning Centers
1920’s
 STEP 1: groups read info about assigned topic and
complete worksheet: The Roaring 20’s Learning
Centers
 STEP 2: groups choose experts (experts: get copy
of worksheet)
 STEP 3: experts rotate from group to group teaching
about their topic (students complete worksheet: The
Roaring 20’s Learning Centers
 STEP 4: When worksheet is complete create the
acrostic: “TWENTIES”
 STEP 5: class chooses best “expert” = 10 points for
team
Increasing Consumerism
Standard 11.5.7: Discuss the rise of
mass production techniques, the
growth of cities, the impact of new
technologies (e.g., the automobile,
electricity), and the resulting
prosperity and effect on the
American landscape.
Increasing Consumerism
 National income rose:
 1850 - $95 per month
 1918 - $586 per month
 New goods:
 car, vaccum, fridge, irons, fans
 Growth of U.S Economy
 1922-1929 national production increased 34%
 Advertising
 “psychology of buying”
 Make the people want what you sell”
 Installment buying
 Buy goods on credit
 Helped to create the economic boom
Model posing for advertisement
Billboard Advertising
Harlem Renaissance
 Standard 11.5.5
Describe the Harlem
Renaissance and new trends in
literature, music, and art, with
special attention to the work of
writers.
Harlem Renaissance
 A time period during the 1920’s in which
African-American literature, art, music,
dance, and social commentary began to
flourish in Harlem, a section of New York
City.
 became known as "The New Negro
Movement" and later as the Harlem
Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
 The main factors contributing to the
development of the Harlem Renaissance:
 African-American urban migration
 trends toward experimentation throughout the
country
 and the rise of radical African-American
intellectuals.
Harlem Renaissance
 Jazz first created in New Orleans:
 Famous Jazz performers:
Louise Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Music of the
Harlem Renaissance
 Muskrat Ramble by Louis Armstrong and
His Hot Five (early Jazz)
 Downhearted Blues by Bessie Smith
(early Blues)
Harlem Renaissance
 Poets and Writers:
 Langston Hughes
 Zora Neale Hurston
Harlem Renaissance Writers
 Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother. They send
me to eat in the kitchen When
company comes, But I laugh,
And eat well, And grow strong.
Tomorrow, I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in
the kitchen," Then. Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed-- I, too, am
America.
Silhouette by Langston Hughes
 Southern gentle lady,
Do not swoon.
They've just hung a black man
In the dark of the moon. They've hung a black
man
To the roadside tree
In the dark of the moon
For the world to see
How Dixie protects
Its white womanhood
Southern gentle lady,
Be good!
Be good!
Harlem Renaissance Writers
 Zora Neale Hurston
“Anyway, the force from
somewhere in Space which
commands you to write in
the first place, gives you no
choice. You take up the
pen when you are told, and
write what is commanded.
There is no agony like
bearing an untold story
inside you. “
Harlem Renaissance
 Painters:
 Laura Wheeler Waring
 Edwin Harleston
 Aaron Douglas
Laura Wheeler Waring
Edwin Harleston
Aaron Douglas
Harlem Renaissance
 The Harlem Renaissance transformed
African-American identity and history,
but it also transformed American culture
in general. Never before had so many
Americans read the thoughts of AfricanAmericans and embraced the AfricanAmerican community's productions,
expressions, and style.
Prohibition
 Standard 11.5.3
Examine the passage of the
Eighteenth Amendment to the
Constitution and the Volstead
Act (Prohibition).
Prohibition
Prohibition
 18th Amendment (Volstead Act)
(1919)
Prohibited the manufacture,
transportation, and sale of
beverages containing alcohol.
Did not make it illegal to buy,
possess, or consume alcohol
Federal agents destroying
Moonshine
Reasons “Dry’s” gave for Prohibition
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Close dangerous saloons
Cut crime in half
Improve public health
Cleanse the race of birth defects
Reduce poverty
Cut taxes
Stimulate the economy
Stop on the job accidents and absenteeism
Slow down the labor movement
Prevent riots and violence
Protect and preserve “native” morals
Prohibition
 Consequences:
 People began to drink MORE liquor
 Speak-easies: illegal bars
 “gangsterism” and crime (Al Capone)
 The 18th amendment was overturned by
the 21st amendment in 1933
Al Capone
Popularity of Radio & Movies
 Standard 11.5.6
Trace the growth and effects of
radio and movies and their role
in the worldwide diffusion of
popular culture.
Popularity of Radio & Movies
 1920 – 1st Radio Broadcast
 American Broadcasting
Corporation (ABC)
 National Broadcasting
Corporation (NBC)
 The radio was TV in the 1920’s.
(music, news, sports,
comedies, dramas, mysteries,
etc.)
Popularity of Radio & Movies
 By the mid-20s, movies were big business (with a capital
investment totaling over $2 billion)
 By the end of the decade, there were 20 Hollywood
studios
 The greatest output of feature films occurred in the
1920s and 1930s (averaging about 800 film releases in a
year) - nowadays, it is remarkable when production
exceeds 500 films in a year.
 Throughout most of the decade, silent films were the
predominant product of the film industry
 films were becoming bigger (or longer), costlier, and
more polished.
 They were being manufactured, assembly-line style, in
Hollywood's 'entertainment factories,' in which
production was broken down and organized into its
various components (writing, costuming, makeup,
directing, etc.).
The Big 5 Studios
Loew's, Inc.
(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Warner Bros.
Famous Players-Lasky
(Paramount)
20th-Century Fox
RKO
Famous Films
Douglas Fairbanks
Mary Pickford
Lillian Gish
Rudolph Valentino
Charlie Chaplin
Sports Mania
 New laws limiting working hours and increased
productivity led to more leisure time and income.
 Popular sports during the 1920’s
 Baseball “America’s Pastime”
 Jim Crow laws segregated sports
 Babe Ruth
 Boxing
 Jack Dempsey/Gene Tunney
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Golf
Football
Tennis
Swimming
 Gertrude Ederle: first woman to swim across the English
Channel
Jack Dempsey v Gene Tunney
Harold Grange
Babe Ruth
Gertrude Ederle:
First woman to swim across the English Channel
Surfing
Improved Transportation
 Standard 11.5.7
Discuss the rise of mass production
techniques, the growth of cities, the
impact of new technologies (e.g., the
automobile, electricity), and the
resulting prosperity and effect on the
American landscape.
Improved Transportation
 The Automobile
 Henry Ford
 The Model “T” (affordable)
 Used “scientific management”: assembly line and standardized
parts
 1921 Federal Highway Act
 By the mid-1920’s Chrysler and General Motors were
competing with Ford
 The Airplane
 Famous flyers: Amelia Erhart & Charles A. Lindbergh
made flying popular.
 By 1929 planes were being used to carry passengers
for profit
The Model “T” Advertisement
Passenger Plane
Charles Linbergh
Amelia Erhart
Science & Technology
Changing Role of Women
 Standard 11.5.4
Analyze the passage of the
Nineteenth Amendment and the
changing role of women in
society.
Suffrage
Changing Role of Women
 19th Amendment (Woman’s Suffrage)
 Woman obtained the right to vote in 1920
 Required lengthy and difficult struggle
 The beginning of the fight for women
suffrage is usually traced to the
"Declaration of Sentiments" produced at
the first woman's rights convention in
Seneca Falls, N. Y. in 1848.
 Influenced by woman who participated in
WWI
 Several generations of woman suffrage
supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied,
and practiced civil disobedience to achieve
what many Americans considered a radical
change of the Constitution
National Women’s Party Headquarters
Changing Role of Women
 New found freedom and independence
 Challenged traditional ideas of women’s role
in society.
 “Flappers”:
 Wore shorter skirts
 Cut hair “the shingle bob”
 Wore makeup
 Smoked
 Danced “the Charleston”
 Used birth control
 Increased sexuality
 Increased attention to female sports stars
Changing Role of Women
Flappers
Flappers
Acrostic
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Women’s roles changed dramatically
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Essential Question
How did the American
way of life change in
the 1920’s?