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ARE You????
LEARN Part 1 ______/ 100 pts
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20’s 30’s
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1920’s
and
1930’s
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Link
30 pts
Student Teachers
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Help your “students” link
information.
Find and Create
Due:
Each person helps to create:
 Find and have 8-15 Presentation
Visuals or Media for your
“students” to use to cement
information into their brain.
(2-3 from each group member)
E
Educate
30 pts
A
Active
Learning
20 pts
R
Reflect
10 pts
N
Now I
know it
5 pts
Present your need to
know information to
your “students”.
 Web page power
pts
 Mrs. Garman’s 20’s
30’s Research
 Textbooks
 World Wide Web
The class will participate
in an activity where they
can practice knowledge.
 Create a 2 page handout to help
your “students” know what they
need to learn.
 Your hand out will guide your
“students” while you teach them
the information.
 Side 1: Matches Visuals/Media
 Side 2: Dictionary Words,
definitions, and pictures.
Create Activities that helps your
“students understand” what they
need to know.
Reflect and summarize
what was learned.
 Did I Learn It “Quiz”
 Grade on 4, 3, 2, 1 scale by the
group (1 question from each group member)
Summative Assessment
• Provide Ms. Zahora with 4 test
questions to add to her test.
(1 question from each group member)
Cite Your Sources: 5pts
Ms. Z’s Web page power points
Mrs. Garman’s 20’s 30’s Research
Textbooks
World Wide Web
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What
everyone
needs to
understand
Questions to
Ask
Technology extended progress into all areas of American
life, including neglected rural areas.
How was a person’s social life and economic/$ life in the
early twentieth century different from that in the late
nineteenth century?
What increased factory and labor productivity?
What does
Results of improved transportation brought about by
everyone
affordable automobiles
need to
 Greater mobility (movement of people)
know?
 Creation of jobs
 Growth of transportation-related industries (road
construction, oil, steel, automobile)
People in
 Movement to suburban areas
group # 5
Economy
 Boom: How was the Economy doing explain?
 Consumerism: What does this mean and how does it
affect the economy?
Invention of the airplane
 The Wright brothers: Why was flight important?
Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart
Hindenburg Advanced flight by?
Use of the assembly line and machines
 Henry Ford, automobile. What did he add or change?
 Rise of mechanization (using machines more to do
work)
 Other machines used
20’s vs. 30’s Technology: How different?
 Medical Discoveries
 Examples
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What
everyone
needs to
understand
Questions to
Ask
Technology extended progress into all areas of American life,
including neglected rural areas.
How was social/people and economic/$ life in the early
twentieth century different from that in the late nineteenth
century?
How did Thomas Edison’s Electric lighting and the use of
electricity to power machines changed lives?
What does
Communication changes
everyone need  Increased availability of telephones
to know?
 Development of the radio and broadcast industry
Guglielmo Marconi and David Sarnoff
1920’s Radio shows
People in
Ways electrification changed American life
group # 4
 Labor-saving products: How did they change life?
Provide Examples and pictures: washing machines, electric
stoves, water pumps
Created more Entertainment
(radio/theater/movies/sports)
 Development of the movies: Silent verses Talkies
 Charlie Chaplin
 Greta Garbo
 First Cartoon Movie: Mickey Mouse
Icons/Famous Sports People of the 1920’s:
Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey, Jesse Owens
Any women?
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What
everyone
needs to
understand
Questions to
Ask
Reforms (change by law) in the early twentieth century
could not legislate how all people behaved.
Economic conditions and violence led to the migration of
people.
What was prohibition, and how effective was it?
What does
everyone
need to
know?
Prohibition was imposed by a constitutional amendment
that made it illegal to manufacture, transport, and sell
alcoholic beverages. (18th Amendment)
People in
group # 3
Why did African Americans migrate to northern cities?
What created prohibition? Temperance Movement
 18th Amendment
 What did it say?
 How did it get passed?
 How did it end? Why?
Results of prohibition
 Speakeasies were created as places for people to drink
alcoholic beverages. The secret?
 Gangsters and Bootleggers made and smuggled alcohol
illegally and promoted organized crime.
 FBI Why created? What it did?
 Moonshine and bathtub gin
Great Migration North and West
 Jobs for African Americans in the South were scarce and low
paying.
 Jim Crow Laws in the South.
 African Americans faced discrimination and violence in the
South.
 African Americans moved to cities in the North and Midwest in
search of better employment opportunities.
 African Americans also faced discrimination and violence in the
North and Midwest.
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What
everyone
needs to
understand
Questions to
Ask
The 1920s and 1930s were important decades for great
changes to our Culture including art, literature, and music.
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Who were the leaders in art, literature, and music during
the 1920s and 1930s?
What were the contributions?
How did they change America?
What does
everyone
need to
know?
People in
group # 5
Cultural climate of the 1920s and 1930s
1920’s Culture:
Mass Culture:
 Women 20’s vs. 30’s
20’s Flapper, an independent woman
30’s woman
 20’s vs. 30’s Fads and Crazes (What was popular
then?)
King Tut and Egypt
 20’s vs. 30’s Fashion
 20’s vs. 30’s Dance
 20’s vs. 30’s Education
 Art: Georgia O’Keeffe, an artist known for urban scenes
and, later, paintings of the Southwest
 Literature: F. Scott Fitzgerald, a novelist who wrote
about the Jazz Age of the 1920s Great Gatsby; John
Steinbeck, a novelist who portrayed the strength of
poor migrant workers during the 1930s Grapes of
Wrath.
 Music: Aaron Copland and George Gershwin, composers
who wrote uniquely American music
 Architecture: 20’s vs. 30’s
 20’s vs. 30’s Toys
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What
everyone
needs to
understand
Questions to
Ask
The 1920s and 1930s were important decades for
American
art, literature, and music.
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The leaders of the Harlem Renaissance drew upon the
heritage of African American culture to establish
themselves as powerful forces for cultural change.
Who were the leaders in art, literature, and music during
the 1920s and 1930s?
What were the contributions of these leaders?
What does
everyone
need to
know?
People in
group # 3
How did the Harlem Renaissance influence American life
(change America)?
Harlem Renaissance
African American artists, writers, and musicians based in
Harlem revealed the freshness and variety of African
American culture.
 Art: Jacob Lawrence, a painter who chronicled the
experiences of the Great Migration through art
 Literature: Langston Hughes, a poet who combined the
experiences of African and American cultural roots
 What was Jazz? What are the Blues?
 How did Jazz lead to today’s music and songs.
 What was the Cotton Club? Why was it important?
 Musical Artists and Song writer: Duke Ellington and
Louis Armstrong, jazz musicians; Bessie Smith, a blues
singer; Ella Fitzgerald
The popularity of these artists spread beyond Harlem to
the rest of society.
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What
everyone
needs to
understand
Questions to
Ask
What does
everyone
need to
know?
People in
group # 6
The optimism “positive vibe” of the 1920s concealed problems
in the American economic $ system and attitudes about the role of
government in controlling the economy.
The Great Depression had a widespread and severe impact on
American life.
Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal used government programs to help
the nation recover from the Depression.
What were the causes of the Great Depression?
How were the lives of Americans affected by the Great Depression?
What were the major features of the New Deal?
Causes of the Great Depression
How did the Stock Market Crash: Explain:
 People over-speculated on stocks, using borrowed money that
they could not repay when stock prices crashed. What does over
speculation mean? What does buying on the margin mean?
 How did the crash play out? Black Thursday and Black Tuesday
 What was wrong with their math?
What else failed and plunged us into a Great Depression:
 The Federal Reserve failed to prevent the collapse of the banking
system. What was its’ job? Like a babysitter for….
 High tariffs discouraged international trade. What is a tariff and
how did it discourage trade?
Herbert Hoover did not help the situation.
 His plan to fix the Depression
 Hoovervilles
 What would Teddy Roosevelt have done to fix the problem?
Impact on Americans: Hungry, Sad, Homeless
 A large number of banks and other businesses failed.
 One-fourth/25% of workers were without jobs or unemployed.
 Large numbers of people were hungry and homeless.
 Farmers’ incomes fell to low levels, lost farms.
Dust Bowl contributes to the Depression
 What happened? Scientifically
 Migrant workers
 Grapes of Wrath (book)
 How contributed to the Dust Bowl
Major features of the New Deal/Put People to Work
Explain and give examples of federal work programs,
environmental programs and farm assistance programs.
 RELIEF: Explain and give 2 examples.
 RECOVERY: Explain and give 2 examples
 REFORM: Explain and give 2 examples
 Social Security: How does it work?
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