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The 1920s
Social Studies 8
Mrs. Francis
Name: ____________________________
Essential Question: Why was the decade of the 1920s a time of both cultural and social
energy and a time of political and cultural tension?
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Aim: How did different groups of Americans respond to the “Return to Normalcy” campaign?
Do Now: Define disarmament __________________________________________________
HW:
1920 Election
Republican Party Platform
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Warren G. Harding
• Conducted a front porch campaign where he spoke to reporters and visitors urging a “return to
normalcy.”
• ___________________________________________________________________________
• ___________________________________________________________________________
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Return to Normalcy
In the election of 1920, many Americans voted for Warren G. Harding because he promised a
“return to normalcy.” The war experience had disillusioned them. Over 130,000 American lives
had been lost and many billions of dollars had been spent to “make the world safe for
democracy,” but by 1920 most Americans felt the post-war world was in no better condition than
the pre-war world had been.
Read and analyze the statistics below, then answer the questions that follow.
World War I
Americans in Uniform
Wounded
Dead
Estimated War Costs
National Debt
4,600,000
200,000
130,000
$22,000,000,000
1914
1915
1916
1917
$1,188,235,000
$1,191,264,000
$1,225,146,000
$2,975,619,000
1918
1919
1920
1921
$12,455,225,000
$25,484,506,000
$24,299,321,000
$23,977,451,000
Unemployment
Wheat Prices
Cost of Living
1914 7.9%
1915 8.5%
1916 5.1%
1917 4.6%
1918 1.4%
1919 1.4%
1920 5.2%
1921 11.7%
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
$ .94/bu
1.29/bu
1.33/bu
2.30/bu
2.16/bu
2.42/bu
2.46/bu
1.33/bu
1.21/bu
1.11/bu
up 2% from 1913
up 1% from 1913
up 13% from 1913
up 47% from 1913
up 71% from 1913
up 84% from 1913
up 103% from 1913
up 74% from 1913
Questions:
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Why do you think unemployment declined in 1918 and 1919?
Why do you think unemployment went up in 1920 and 1921?
Why do you think wheat prices were so high in the years 1917-1920?
Why do you think wheat prices went down after 1920?
Why do you think the cost of living climbed so rapidly?
What do you think Harding meant by a “return to normalcy?”
Why do you think this slogan appealed to many Americans?
How might American’s experience during World War I have affected its attitude toward future
foreign intervention?
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After the War
The following letter was written by Bob to his friend Joe, with whom he had fought in World
War I. It describes conditions immediately following the war.
Questions to answer:
1. What is Bob saying in this letter?
2. How do you think people like Bob felt about fighting in World War I, now that it was over?
3. What does this letter tell us about conditions in Europe after World War I?
4. How would you respond to the last line of the letter, "Yeah, we Americans won that war for the
allies. We made the difference. Now, I ask you, for what?"
5. Based on what you read here, did those who fought in World War I have reason to be
disappointed with the results?
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Exercise:
List three questions you would have like to ask Harding, based on the reading above.
1. ______________________________________________________________________________
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2. ______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
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2. Calvin Coolidge
“The business of America is business.”
“The man who builds a factory builds a temple.”
-Calvin Coolidge
“Never before, here or anywhere else has a government been
as so completely connected with business.”
- The Wall Street Journal
Exercise
List three questions you would have liked to ask Coolidge,
based on the information above.
1. ______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Name: _________________________________
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Aim: Why was there an economic boom in the 1920s?
Do Now:
Characteristics of 1920s
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Big Business
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Installment Buying
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To assure a market, manufacturers and banks popularized credit buying
on the installment plan.
Registration of autos tripled and middle class life-styles changed
dramatically.
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Auto Industry
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1929 – 1 out of 9 workers in America were employed in an auto related industry.
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Education
Decency
Privacy
Property
Values
Summary:
Effect on the Economy
Big
Business
Auto
Industry
Installment
Buying
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Aim: How did the way of life change in the 1920s?
Do Now: Define prohibition __________________________________________________
HW: Study for Quiz
A Ban on Alcohol
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Getting Around the law
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Organized Crime
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Rights for women
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Movies of the 1920s
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Review for Quiz
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The Roaring Twenties
1. Describe the changes that occurred during the social revolution of the 1920s.
2. How did prohibition affect the nation?
3. How did the automobile affect the nation?
4. How did women change during the 1920s?
5. How did people disregard prohibition?
6. Describe the economy of the 20s.
7. The 1920s was called the roaring twenties. Use your creative skills and rename this decade.
Explain your reason.
8. Describe the values of people living in the twenties.
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Aim: How did American culture change in the 1920s?
Do Now: __________________________________________________
HW:
Harlem Renaissance
It was a period of creativity and exuberance among African American writers, artists,
musicians, and entertainers -- which burst forth in the Roaring 20s and was centered in
Harlem.
American Culture in the 1920s
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Questions to answer
 Who were the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance?
 What role did African Americans play during the 1920s?
 Did the Harlem Renaissance help African Americans in society? Why or why not?
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The Harlem Renaissance
Terms – Harlem is an area of New York City which became a black community during the
twenties. Renaissance means a rebirth or revival of intellectual and/or artistic achievement.
Michelangelo was a product of the Italian renaissance, which marked the transition from
medieval to modern times.
Purposes – this literary movement gave black men and women a chance to create their own
images and express their unique experiences a black Americans in the United States. Collegeeducated African American women flocked to Harlem to share their ideas, write poetry and
novels, paint pictures, and produce movies. Their written and artistic works celebrated the
vitality of life and reflected the black cultural heritage.
Harlem became a great center of African American culture as the community found a new sense
of independence and developed pride in its own traditions.
Problems – the rapid growth of the area brought its own set of problems, including overcrowding
and high rents. The death rate for African Americans was almost twice that for whites. Unable
to support themselves with their art, African Americans often took menial jobs. White people
flocked to Harlem, which they thought of as an alien and exotic place, for the fresh nightlife, but
they regarded blacks as primitive and one-dimensional. Blacks were not accepted as equals and
could not be served in many of the Harlem theaters and clubs where they performed. Writers
and artists alike worked hard to dispel these myths, and the resulting art and culture are
testimonies to their diverse abilities.
The Harlem Renaissance
During the 1920’s, African Americans participated in an important period of cultural activity that
has come to be called the Harlem Renaissance (rebirth). The famous poet Langston Hughes
describes the period below:
The so-called Negro or Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was a period when, at almost every Harlem
upper crust dance or party, one would be introduced to various distinguished white celebrities there as
guests. It was a period when local and visiting royalty were not at all uncommon in Harlem.
It was a period when every season there was a least one hit play on Broadway acted by a Negro cast, and
when books by Negro authors were being published with much greater frequency and much more publicly
than ever before. It was a period when white writers rote about Negros more successfully (in terms of the
money they made) than Negroes did about themselves. It was the period when the Negro was in style.
White people began to come to Harlem in droves. For several years they packed the expensive Cotton
Club on Lenox Avenue. But I was never there, because the Cotton Club was a Jim Crow club for
gangsters and whites with money. They were not cordial to Negro customers unless you were a celebrity.
I was in Harlem during the Renaissance. I had a swell time while it lasted. But I thought it wouldn’t last
long. Some Harlemites thought the race problem had at last been solved.
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Questions:
1. What do we learn from this reading?
2. What does this reading tell us about the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s?
The Poetry of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was a writer of many talents. He was a poet, essayist, journalist,
novelist, short story writer, playwright, translator (of Spanish and French literature), lyricist, and
newspaper columnist. However, he was best known as a poet. Two of his most famous poems,
the Negro Speaks of Rivers (1921) and I, Too (1926), appear below. After you have read these
poems, complete the exercises below.
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
I’ve known the rivers;
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older
than the flow of human blood in human veins.
I, Too
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.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were
young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to
sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids
about it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe
Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve
seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the
sunset.
I’ve known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed,
I too, am America.
Questions:
1. What are these poems about?
2. What is your reaction to I,Too?
3. Do you think these poems would be popular today? Explain.
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Blues and Jazz in the Harlem Renaissance
Many styles of music, including jazz and the blues, were made popular in Harlem in the 1920s. In the
excerpt below, Francis “Doll” Thomas, a performer during the Harlem Renaissance and part of the theater
scene, recalls the time. After you have studied the posters and read his account, complete the exercise
that follows:
The 1920’s was about the beginnin’ of the blues. The queen of blues was Bessie Smith. Bessie traveled
with her own group of musicians. I first heard the blues in joints (clubs). The theater business was so
segregated, there was no place else to go.
I knew Scott Joplin (a famous ragtime composer) very well. There were plenty of piano players and plenty
of musicians who could play as well as Joplin could, but the thing that made him different from all the
rest, he was the only one that could write the notes on paper.
We opened up the Lafayette club with a musical, “Darktown Follies.” It was so popular that we brought
syncopation (a style of playing that stresses the beat) to the white music. The music was ragtime with an
orchestra. Only they didn’t call it ragtime, on account of the churches. According to them, that was the
devils music, so we had to give it another name. We called it “jazz”.
Exercise
Complete the last sentence of Thomas’s memories of the 1920’s:
I will always remember the 1920’s for:
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Aim: Were Americans justified in their distrust of different ethnic groups?
Do Now: Define anarchist_____________________________________________________
HW:
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The Red Scare
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Radicals
Anarchists – ________________________________________________________________
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Many foreigners were _________________________________________________________
Sacco and Vanzetti
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The jury convicted them and they were sentenced to death.
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The Scopes Trial
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 1925 – John Scopes a biology teacher decided to test the law.
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 Scopes was convicted and fined $100
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The Monkey Trial
The Scopes Trial, sometimes called the Monkey Trial, was the best known trial of the decade.
Its main issue was the public school’s right to teach the science of evolution.
Background Information – Evolution is the theory which traces life on earth through millions of
years of development from simple one celled creatures through increasingly complex plants and
animals to humans. Fundamentalist Christians, among others, believe in the creation story that is
told in the Bible. The Bible states that the world was created in six days. In 1925, the Tennessee
legislature passed a law prohibiting the teaching of any theory that denies the creation story of
the bible. It also prohibited teaching that man evolved from lower animals.
When and Where – The trial took place in Dayton, Tennessee, in the summer of 1925.
How the Trail Came About – In 1920, the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) offered to
pay the legal expenses of anyone interested in testing the Tennessee law. The ACLU believed
that the law was unconstitutional since the First Amendment provides for the separation of
church and state. This amendment guarantees that the government cannot pick your beliefs,
force you to attend church, or make you pay taxes to support a particular church, for example.
The Players – The defendant is John Scopes, a 24 year old school teacher.
Clarence Darrow, an attorney and an agnostic (someone who is unsure whether there is a God or
not), represents Scopes.
William Jennings Bryan heads up the prosecution for the state of Tennessee. Well known and
well liked, Bryan has run for president three times and is a fundamentalist.
Arguments – Darrow attempted to prove that church doctrine is being imposed on public schools
because the 1925 Tennessee state law tells citizens what they should believe. Bryan accused
Darrow of wanting to slur the Bible.
Settlement – Scopes was convicted and fined $100, but the conviction was later reversed because
of a small legal error.
Present Day – In the 1980s Arkansas and Louisiana passed laws requiring public schools that
teach evolution to devote equal time to the teaching of creationism. In 1987, the Supreme Court
found that these laws are in conflict with the First Amendment.
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Do Now:
Topic: The Scopes Monkey Trial
What strides were made in education in the 1920’s?
How did fundamentalists view science and
education in the 1920’s?
Why was John T. Scopes put on trial?
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Against Immigration
Below are the comments of important United States citizens speaking over a period of about 30
years on immigration to the country. Read them and then complete the exercise that follows:
The Italians, Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, and Asiatics are those with which the English-speaking
people have never assimilated and who are most different from the people of the United States. Statistics show
that the change in the race character of our immigrants from people coming from northern and western to
people from southern and Eastern Europe has been accompanied by a decline in its quality.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator
(speaking before the U.S. Congress)
Further unrestricted immigration will flood the country with human parasites (who live off other people) and
produce a hybrid (mixed) race of good for nothings.
Kenneth Roberts, writer
Northern Europeans possess a natural superiority over Mediterranean peoples. The inferior fold of the new
immigration will pollute the Northern European stock.
- Madison Grant,
Chairman of the NY Zoological Society
author of The Passing of a Great Race
Exercise
Pretend that you are an opponent of the Quota Act of 1924 engaged in debate with the men who
made the statements above. Write one argument that you would make in response to each man’s
position.
To Henry Cabot Lodge:__________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
To Kenneth Roberts: ____________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
To Madison Grant: ______________________________________________________________
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Sacco and Vanzetti
In April of 1920, armed bandits stole a shoe factory payroll in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
The Roberts killed a guard and the paymaster. Several weeks later, Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants, were arrested. Both men were anarchists (in favor
of doing away with all forms of government). Neither spoke English well. They said they were
carrying guns because they had heard that other anarchists had been beaten and they needed to
protect themselves. Four eyewitnesses to the shooting gave the following testimony. Have each
member of your group read a different witness’s testimony. The work together to fill in the chart
that follows:
Witness #1
Witness #3
“The man who did the shooting was kind of
a short man, he had black hair, he was
bareheaded, and I would say that he weighed
probably 140 pounds. He had a gray shirt
on. His hair was blowed back, and he
needed a shave.” Asked if Sacco was the
man, Witness #1 said, “Well, my best
judgment is this: if I have a doubt, I don’t
think he is the man.”
“The men who did the shooting was dressed
sort of dark clothes with caps, dark caps. I
should say they was fellows of medium
build, fellows not quite so heavy as I am.
Why , they appeared to be foreigners. Well,
I should call them Italians.” Asked whether
he had seen the bandits again, Witness #3
said, “I don’t know as I have seen any of the
men implicated in the shooting, no sir.”
Witness #2
Witness #4
“The man who did the shooting had a dark
green pair of pants and an army shirt tucked
up. He had wavy-hair pushed back, very
strong, wiry hair, very dark. Dark
complexion. I wouldn’t say Sacco is the
man, but he is the dead image of the man I
seen.”
“The one was dressed with an army shirt on
him and I did not notice exactly what the
other was. They had something on their
heads. Both of them seemed to be pretty
well light complexioned fellows.” Asked if
he could identify the men, Witness #4 said
he could not.
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Topic: Fads of the 1920s
Aim: How did the fads reflect the values of the 1920s?
Do Now: Define fad _____________________________
HW:
Fads of the 1920s
 Fad-
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Flappers
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New Music
 Jazz- ______________________________________________________________________
Heroes of the Twenties
 Athletes ____________________________________________________________________
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Lindbergh
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean (from
New York to Paris, France). His description of the flight appears below.
About 7:40 the motor was started and at
7:52 I took off on the flight for Paris.
The field was a little soft due to the rain
during the night and the heavily loaded
plane gathered speed very slowly. After
passing the halfway mark, however, it was
apparent that I would be able to take off…
The first indication of my approach to the
European coast was a small fishing boat
which I first noticed a few miles ahead and
slightly to the south of my course. There
were several of these fishing boats grouped
within a few miles of each other. I had little
doubt that it was the southwestern end of
Ireland. In a little over two hours the coast
of England appeared. The sun went down
shortly after passing Cherbourg, France,
and soon the beacons along the ParisLondon airway became visible.
I turned slightly to the right to avoid some
high trees on a hill directly ahead, but by the
time I had gone a few hundred yards I was
high enough to clear all obstructions and
turned down the engine speed.
The haze soon cleared and from Cape Cod,
Massachusetts, through the southern half of
Nova Scotia, Canada, the weather and
visibility were excellent. I was flying very
low, sometimes as close as ten feet from the
trees and water.
I first saw the lights of Paris a little before
10:00 PM or 5:00 PM New York time, and a
few minutes later I was circling the Eiffel
Tower at an height of about 4,000 feet. The
lights of Le Bourget were plainly visible, but
appeared to be very close to Paris.
Darkness set in about 8:15, and a thin, low
fog formed over the sea. This fog became
thicker and included until only the stars
directly overhead could be seen.
Presently, I could make out long lines of
hangars, and the roads appeared to be
jammed with cars.
There was no moon and it was very dark.
Dawn came at about 1:00 AM, New York
time.
I flew low over the field once, then circled
around into the wind and landed.
As the sun rose higher, holes appeared in
the fog. Through one hole, the water was
visible, and I dropped down to less than 100
feet above the waves.
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A Changing American Culture
Jazz
Advertisements
Cars
Culture of the
1920’s
Fads
Buying on Credit
Radio
Movies
Prohibition
1.
Which aspects of American culture of the 1920’s had the most impact on Americans?
Why?
2.
Which aspects of American culture of the 1920’s had the lease impact on Americans?
Why?
3.
How has American culture changed since the 1920’s?
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Stunt Fliers and flagpole Sitters
The 1920s saw the birth of new stunts, such as stunt flying and sitting on top of flagpoles. Once,
two stunt men played tennis on the top wing of a biplane. The man in the picture on the right,
“Shipwreck” Kelly, sat on different flag poles for a total of 145 days in 1929. The mayor of the
city of Baltimore even honored him for sitting on a pole for a total of 10 days, 10 minutes and 10
seconds.
Lillian Boyer, a stunt flyer, shows that her nerves are as
steady as any man’s. Loops under the wings are to
keep them from dragging during landing.
Exercise:
Pretend you were the person performing one of the stunts in these pictures. In the space below,
write a letter to your best friend describing how you felt.
Dear __________,
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____________________________________________________________________________
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Hollywood in the 1920s
A museum exhibit on the celebrities and fashions of the 1920s would include photos of the
Hollywood stars below. Match each of the following “captions” to the photo it describes.
____ a. Mickey Mouse made his debut in the first carton to use sound, Steamboat Willie (1928)
____ b. The most popular film star of the 1920s, Charlie Chaplin invented the role of the trampclown that became the symbol of American movies.
____ c. The African American actor Paul Robeson achieved worldwide fame with his London
appearance as the lead actor in Shakespeare’s Othello.
____ d. In 1927, Al Jolson introduced Americans to their first movie with sound, The Jazz
Singer. He performed the role in blackface, wearing makeup to look like an African
American.
____ e. Rudolph Valentino performed the role of the handsome seducer with Agnes Ayres in The
Sheik (1921).
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Everyday Dress in the 1920s
The 1920s brought revolution in styles of dress, especially for women and children. Read about
the changes for each group and then do one or more of the activities.
Children - traditionally, children were dressed s miniature adults. In the twenties, one piece
rompers for infants and playsuits for older boys and girls were introduced.
Teenagers – Fashion had overlooked the teen years, taking young people straight from childhood
to adulthood. When teens went to fight in World War I, a new market developed, and fashions
just for teenagers were created. Magazines like Seventeen emerged for this new teenage market.
Women – Hemlines rose for the first time in history and exposed women’s legs. The thick,
cotton stockings available at the time were quickly replaced with rayon. Head hugging cloche
hats fit over the short, bobbed haircuts sported by most women. Flesh colored, all in one
undergarments replaced restrictive, tight laced corsets and camisoles. Women plucked their
eyebrows and wore rouge and lipstick.
Men – Styles became more relaxed and lighter, thanks to the sporting influence. Tennis sweaters
and polo shirts were allowed for casual, as well as sporting, attire. Lindbergh’s transatlantic
flight spawned a cult following and a new look: leather jackets and helmets worn with goggles.
Raccoon coats were popular.
Sewing Machine – electric sewing machines were first introduced in the twenties. Discuss what
impact this invention had on the fashion world.
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The Babe Hits Sixty
During the 1920s, the names of George Herman “Babe” Ruth and baseball became one and the
same. Below, James S. Carolan in the The New York Times, October 1, 1927, tells the tale of
Ruth’s sixtieth home run which broke his own major league record for home runs in a single
season. After reading the account, complete the exercise that follows.
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Poster Activity
This unit has focused on important changes that took place in the 1920s. Create a poster
showing life in the 1920s. The poster should include the following topics:
1. Prohibition
2. Rights and jobs for women
3. The automobile
4. New Entertainment: jazz, movies and radio
5. Fads
6. Flappers
7. Harlem Renaissance
Be sure to include all 7 areas. The poster does not have to have words, it can be all pictures.
The title should be: The Roaring Twenties (1919-1929)
Review for Test on 1920s
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Return to Normalcy
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Warren G. Harding
Installment Buying
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Reason for not joining League of Nations
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Was everyone prosperous during the 1920s?
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Why was it called the “Roaring Twenties?”
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Impact of Assembly Line
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Harding/Coolidge
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Farmers were not prosperous
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Unit 7
1920s
Mrs. Francis
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Harlem Renaissance
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Scopes Monkey Trial
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Red Scare
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Important– fear of foreigners
Impact of Auto Industry
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Growth of suburbs
Why was there an increased use of restaurants, hotels because of automobiles?
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Flappers
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Heroes of the 1920s
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
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Fads of the 1920s
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Prohibition Amendments
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Speakeasies
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 Essay - Social, Economic and Political Changes that took place during 1920s
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