Lesson Five
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Role of Women & Prohibition
Outcomes
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Students will analyze how women’s roles and attitudes changed during the
1920’s
Students will identify the important contributions of women such as Agnes
MacPhail, Emily Carr and the Famous Five
Students will compare the attitudes taken towards prohibition by Canada
and the US.
Activities
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Take up Role of Women assignment from last class.
Show segment from “The Jazz Age” on the 20’s.
Student scrapbook assignment. Use the class set of 1920’s in Canada
scrapbooks and attached assignment for students to find out what life
was like in 1920’s Canada.
political cartoon assignment – for newspaper. Introduce this and
students can have this class to get started.
Quiz in 2 classes!
Materials
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DVD “The Jazz Age”
Power Point – The Role of Women & Prohibition
1920’s Canada scrapbooks and assignment and key
newspaper political cartoon assignment
Events of…
1923 
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King Tut’s tomb discovered by Lord Carnarvon
Oklahoma’s Governor tried to stop KKK rallies, but failed
Dance marathons!
1924 
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First Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France
KKK’s membership at 4 million – an all time high
1925 
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“When We Were Very Young” is published by A.A. Milne
The “Charleston” sweeps the nation!
Henry Ford paints his cars green, blue, brown, gray OR black!
“Scopes Monkey Trial” finds Scopes guilty and fines him $100 for teaching
evolution in Tennessee schools
Roaring Twenties Scrapbook Quest!
Name: ___________
Date: __________
Consumerism in the Twenties
1. The 1920s was characterized by mass production (assembly line!),
mass consumption and mass media.
What evidence to you find of these three ‘masses’ in the scrapbook? Refer
to specific examples.
Famous Folks!
2. Who was Agnes Macphail and what was she known for?
a. Frederick Banting?
b. Nellie McClung?
d. Who was Emily Murphy and what was the ‘Persons Case’?
Were the Twenties Roaring or Conservative?
3. Find and explain about 4 examples that indicate that the Twenties
were not as wild and crazy as we all think! (I.e. Teacher’s contract,
Sunday laws…)
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4. What were the roles in the family like in the 1920s?
Father-
MotherLabour Unrest
5. Analyze the graph on ‘Strikes and Lockouts.’ Were strikes successful?
Which year had the highest incidence of strikes? Why do you suppose
this is the case?
Prohibition
6. What is meant by the quote “It’s impossible to keep liquor from
dripping through a dotted line.”
a. What were some ways that people got around prohibition?
b. What was “Rum Alley?”
c. What is the message of this primary source prohibition political
cartoon?
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What is the message of this political cartoon?
e. To what extent do the two cartoons corroborate each other?
Transportation
7. Name 3 forms of transportation that people used to get around. What
were some forms that did not get used that much?
8. Immigration
a.Where were most immigrants from?
b.Where they always welcomed or did prejudices exist? In what form?
Socials 11
Name ________________________
PROHIBITION AND CHANGING ROLES FOR WOMEN IN THE 20’S
The 3 masses
Agnes MacPhail
The Famous 5 and the “Persons Case”
Women’s Christian Temperance Union &
Prohibition
Woman now has very nearly the same political and educational advantages as man, but
you cannot be much impressed by the use she has made of them. Politics have surely
never been more treacherous or commercial than they are in those Utopian days, when
woman has the vote, and education seems to have persuaded some women to think that
their highest aim in life is to produce a feeble imitation of their brothers. Marriage is
going out of fashion as a vocation, and a great deal of nonsense is talked about men and
women working together side by side and being independent of each other. I have even
heard it said in praise of the modern woman that she does not look upon marriage as her
aim in life, but looks forward to entering a profession and earning her living
independently of male support.
Excerpted from "The New Woman" by Sheila Kaye-Smith, Living Age, November 5,
1929
1. Identify these documents as primary or secondary sources. Give a rationale
to defend your answer.
2. Identify any bias in the photograph. In the newspaper article.
3. Do the two documents corroborate each other? Give a rationale to defend
your answer.
“Yes, it is a noble experiment.”
“There are today, in round numbers, about 190 000 churches in the United States.
Suppose a church averages in deprivation of one male member a year through the
saloons. This is a low average. It means an actual deprivation of the church by
saloons of 190 000 male church members per year, or over 900 congregations of
200 members each. More Christians than there are today in the whole state of
Maine. Therefore, let the Church strenuously war against saloons as the best
means of increasing her membership and saving men.
The Wisconsin Issue Newspaper, 1905
1. Identify these documents as primary or secondary sources. Give a rationale
to defend your answer.
2. Identify any bias in the cartoon. In the newspaper article.
3. Do the two documents corroborate each other? Give a rationale to defend
your answer.
Socials 11
Name ___________________________
GROUP NEWSPAPER PROJECT
POLITICAL CARTOON
In your assigned group, each of you is to create a 1920’s themed political
cartoon. It can be in the form of one image representing a 1920’s issue OR in a
comic strip form.
Here are your choices for your cartoon’s theme:
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Prohibition & Gangsterism
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Rumrunners from Canada to the States
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Flappers and the changing role of women
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The Persons Case
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Prohibition and the WCTU
Your political cartoon can include the use of some or all of these techniques:
Caricature – exaggerate any characters to make them identifiable or
stereotypical
Light/dark – use of this shading can indicate “mood” of your cartoon – lighthearted or doom & gloom
Size - disproportionate figures can represent power vs. helplessness