Roaring Twenty's Cultural Experience
Unit Objectives
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learn what made the 1920s the “Roaring 20s”
learn why the 1920s was such a prosperous decade
identify iconic figures and symbols of the 20s
identify cultural figures, facts, and trends of the 20s
To learn a little more about life in the 1920's, we will have a
cultural experience that will include an opportunity for you to bring
in food or beverages and/or dress like a Flapper or gangster.
Your Assignment:
1. You must either bring in an approved food or beverage item from the
list below (enough to share with others) OR dress as a Flapper or
gangster. If you do both you will get extra credit.
Approved food or drink items:
Homemade Brew (root beer)
Canada Dry Ginger Ale
Milk
Sanka Coffee
Butter/Margarine
Kraft Cheese
Betty Crocker
Doughnuts
Molasses Cookies
Mounds, Milky Way, Butterfinger
Wonder Bread
Hostess Cakes
Jello
Lender's Bagels
Peter Pan Peanut Butter
Campbell's Soup
Wheaties, Rice Crispies
Potato Chips
Cocoa
2. Complete the worksheet about 1920’s culture and society. On the day
of the cultural experience, we will play a game based on the answers
to this worksheet. Winners will get extra credit.
U.S. History
1920’s Culture
NAME:
1. What impact did the automobile have on America (p. 629-630)?
What was significant about “Route 66”?
2. What impact did the airplane have on America (p. 630)?
3. What led to the rise in America’s standard of living (p. 631-632)?
4. How did “buying on credit” change American shopping?
5. How was the big-city life that became prominent in the 1920s
different from the rural life most people had led during previous
generations (p. 640-642)?
6. How did Prohibition impact America?
Why did many Americans resist Prohibition?
7. What impact did Fundamentalism have on America (p. 644)?
8. How did the role of women change in the 1920s (p. 646-649)?
What was a “flapper”?
9. List some cultural fads of the 1920s (p. 650-651):
10. List some slang words and what they meant (p. 651):
11. What was the first radio station (p. 651)?
12. How did education change in the 1920s (p. 652-653)?
13. How did radio impact America (p. 653-654)?
14. Why did “entertainment” increase so much in the 1920s (p. 654)?
15. Identify the following
Singer known as the “Empress of the Blues” (p. 650):
New York Yankees baseball start that helped make baseball so
popular (p. 654):
Tennis star who dominated women’s tennis in the 1920s (p. 654):
First to fly across the Atlantic solo in an airplane (p. 655):
First woman to fly across the Atlantic (p. 655):
Jewish composer who combined popular concert music with jazz
(p. 656):
Painter who produced intensely colored pieces about New York
(p. 656):
First American to win a Noble Prize in literature; Criticized
American culture and materialism (p. 656):
Wrote The Great Gatsby (p. 656):
Writer who criticized the glorification of war in works like A
Farewell to Arms (p. 657):
Immigrant from Jamaica who believed African Americans should build
a separate society and founded the UNIA (p. 659):
Immigrant from Jamaica who was a novelist and poet and who urged
African Americans toward violence to resist discrimination
(p. 660):
Best-known poet of the Harlem Renaissance; Wrote about the
difficult lives of working class African Americans (p. 660):
Entertainment club in Harlem where African Americans were allowed
to play jazz but were not allowed in as customers (p. 661):
Trumpet player who helped bring jazz music to Chicago and New York
(p. 662):
Jazz pianist and composer who often played at the Cotton Club
(p. 662-663):