1920’s
Learning Packet
USII.6a-c
Name __________________
“Roaring Twenties” Entrance Pass
Predict:
1)
How did Americans feel after WWI?
2)
How do you think they acted during the Twenties? “DO NOT USE
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Automobile Activity
1. Brainstorm on Your Own: List as many things (such as products, industries, or activities) as possible
that resulted from the automobile.
Products (tires)
Activities and Services
Industries (oil)
(drive-ins)
2. Partner – Share your ideas in a group. Add group members’ ideas to your chart.
3. Now, in your group, create a web of all of your ideas on separate paper. (Use the web to show the
relationships between ideas.)
4. Share your ideas with the class.
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Significant Developments in the Early 20th Century
Previous Unit
U.S. Emerges as a World Power
Next Unit
Society
I. Technological Changes
Families, farms & factories
is about
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Electrification
how technological developments in transportation, communication, and electrification changed American life
three ways electricity makes your life easier
today.
ford
1. re “dayl
moving towards
I. Soaring Transportation
opening up
II. New Ways of Communicating
2.
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3.
leading to
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Telephones (Bell)
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Radio (Marconi)
III. Changes in American Life
Through Electrification
Automobile industry
Wright brothers invent the
airplane
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Labor-saving machines
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Electric lighting
(Edison)
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Entertainment
Movies (Edison)
4. _______________
ight hours” to
SELF-TEST QUESTIONS:
TERMS, PEOPLE AND PLACES
Ford, Henry
Lindbergh, Charles
Marconi, Guglielmo
Sarnoff, David
Power
1. How did technology change the way Americans lived in the
early twentieth century?
2. How did affordable automobiles change American life?
Wright brothers
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appliance
assembly line
boom
broadcast
industries
mobility
progress
prosper
rural
electrification
suburban
talkies
technology
transportationrelated industries
Electrification
Is about …
how electricity was generated and distributed to both rural and urban areas, providing power for . . .
Labor-saving Machines
Electric Lighting
In an age of prosperity, consumers could afford
Families, farms & factories
had more “daylight hours” to
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washing machines
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work
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electric stoves
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study
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water pumps
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play
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Entertainment
Young and old used their leisure time to enjoy
dishwashers
something to help with the cleaning
List three ways electricity makes your life easier today. “Do Not USE I”
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radio
baseball and boxing
theater
concerts
humor & variety shows
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movies
newsreels
classical drama
romance
comedy
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Significant Developments in the Early 20th Century
Previous Unit
Technological Changes
Next Unit
II. Society Changes
1920s-1930s
Great Depression and the New Deal
is about
how American society changed in the years between World War I and World War II
failing with
I. Cultural Changes
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leading to
prompting
II. The Great Migration
Consumerism
Mass society
American icons
(celebrities)
Changing morals
Flappers
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Prohibited manufacture,
trade, and sale of
alcohol
 Results of the18th
Amendment
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African Americans face
hardships in the South
 face discrimination and
violence
 Results in migration to
the north
 Harlem Renaissance –
rebirth of AfricanAmerican culture
SELF-TEST QUESTIONS:
1. What was Prohibition and how effective was it?
2. Why did African Americans migrate to northern cities?
3. Who were the leaders of American cultural life in the 1920s?
4. What were the contributions of the leaders in art, literature,
and music?
5. How did the Harlem Renaissance influence American life?
III. Prohibition
1. Speakeasies
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2. Bootleggers
3. Increased crime
Repeal of 18th
amendment (21st)
TERMS, PEOPLE AND PLACES
Louis Armstrong
Aaron Copland
Duke Ellington
F. Scott Fitzgerald
George Gershwin
Langston Hughes
Jacob Lawrence
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Georgia O’Keefe
Bessie Smith
John Steinbeck
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
bootleggers
Blues
composer
culture
decade
discrimination
flappers
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
jazz
migration
organized crime
Prohibition
scarce jobs
speakeasies
Temperance
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Name __________________
“Roaring Twenties” Exit Pass (Consumerism)
1)
How did Americans behave during the Twenties? Think Consumerism
2)
Do you think Americans should have done things differently during the Twenties?
Think Credit
Why or why not?
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BIG IDEA: The 1920s and 1930s were important
decades for American sports, art, literature, and music.
1920s- 1930s
American Icons
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became celebrities
Athletes
Bobby Jones
Babe Ruth
golfer; known as gentleman
baseball; “Sultan of Swat”
captured the flavor of life in the United States
Writers
F.Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby – novel about the empty prosperity of the Jazz Age
Grapes of Wrath – novel portraying the strength of migrant workers
Musical composers
uniquely American music
Aaron Copland
Rodeo; Appalachian Spring
George Gershwin
blues and jazz influences
Artist
Georgia O’Keeffe
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paintings of both
urban scenes
and
the Southwest
African Americans could not
exercise their right to vote.
E1
For most African Americans,
jobs were scarce and pay was
low.
C5
Stories from friends and relatives,
advertisements, and recruiters
encouraged families to move north.
African Americans still faced
discrimination at work, school,
travel, and leisure.
E3
E2
Many African Americans had
the opportunity to vote and to
receive a formal education. E4
Many European-American
Northerners were also
prejudiced against African
Americans.
C3
Racial hate groups, like the
KKK, committed acts of
violence against African
Americans.
C1
Northern factories offered
plentiful jobs and higher
salaries.
C2
poor living conditions for
African Americans in the rural
South
E5
a mass movement of African
Americans to the urban North in
search of a new life
C4
The Great Migration Mix ’n’ Match
Try your hand at making sense of the Great Migration. Decide which pairs of boxes you
think best fit together in cause-effect relationships. Next you should
(1) color-code the paired boxes
and, based on your teacher’s directions, either
(2) cut out the boxes and paste them in pairs on a page in your journal (with causes on
the left and effects on the right) OR
(3) label each box ‘C’ for cause or ‘E’ for effect with a matching number 1-5.
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Date
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Harlem Renaissance
Complete a web for each item you examine. Whose work did your teacher share with you? What
was it like? Use at least 4 details for each one.
Bessie Smith
Louis
Armstrong
Duke
Ellington
Music
Harlem
Renaissance
Langston
Hughes
Wrote about
African American
culture
Jazz and
Blues
Poetry
Civil Rights
Simple paintings
Jacob Lawrence
Very colorful
Great Migration
Art
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BIG IDEA: The Harlem Renaissance drew upon the heritage
of black culture to create a powerful force for change.
Cultural Movement
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Harlem Renaissance
who changed society
People
Writers, artists, and
musicians based in
Harlem, New York
by revealing the freshness and variety of African American culture.
Musicians
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
popular throughout Europe and the
United States
jazz instrumentalists, composers, and singers
jazz instrumentalists, composers, and singers
Poet
Langston Hughes
combined cultures
“Dream Deferred,”
“Ballad of Booker T,”
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
Artist of the Great
Migration
Jacob Lawrence
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Name
Date
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18th Amendment
The 18th amendment was passed in 1919 and repealed (ended) in 1933 with the 21st
amendment. Read the following section of the amendment, and re-write its meaning in
your own words.
1) After one year from ratification of this article
2) the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
3) within (the United States),
4) the importation thereof into, or
5) the exportation thereof from the United States
6) and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof
7) for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
1)
2)
3)
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5)
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7)
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USII.6b
Name __________________________
Prohibition Four-Square
Was Prohibition a good idea or not? (Do you think it failed because the government did not do what
was necessary, or because it was fundamentally flawed – just a bad idea?)
Prohibition Pros/Cons Chart (Each person assigned pro or con position.)
a) Pros or Cons (whichever assigned) – Brainstorm by yourself.
b)
c)
d) In your opinion, was Prohibition a good idea? Why or why not?
(Explain why you do not think that the other side’s arguments are
Share ideas with another pair (opposite position).
Share ideas with a partner (same position, Pro or Con).
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Name __________________
“Roaring Twenties” Cultural Experiments Exit Pass
1)
Which of the Twenties movements that you learned about (flappers,
Harlem Renaissance, or Prohibition) do you think was most important?
2)
Why? (at least five complete sentences) “DO NOT USE
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1920s Problems
Effects
Non-Economic Problems
U.S.-supported treaties could not stop European militarism and imperialism.
Diplomatic failures
Anti-communism led to anti-immigrant feeling and the growth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Nativism
Political Corruption
Scandals like Teapot Dome led voters to turn against Republicans during the Depression.
Economic Problems Leading to Depression
Loss of Business
Eventually, businesses could not sell all of their goods and either lost money or closed.
Overuse of Credit
People borrowed and spent more money than they could afford to repay.
Stock-Market Crash
Corporations and investors lost lots of money.
Collapse of Banking System
Rapid Deflation
High Tariffs
Final Questions:
The federal banking system could not stop the crisis.
After a decade of inflation, the government suddenly decreased the money supply.
As countries tried to protect their businesses with taxes on imports, trade decreased
even more.
What are the top three things that you would have changed to try to prevent the Great Depression? Explain.