1920s Post-war American Society Carousel
Central Question:
How did government actions during the 1920’s challenge the American people’s willingness to conform to and support federal legislation?
Essential Question:
How should citizens react to government actions if those actions do not create a system of “Normalcy”?
SSUSH16 The student will identify key developments in the aftermath of WW I.
a. Explain how rising communism and socialism in the United States led to the Red Scare and immigrant restriction.
b. Identify Henry Ford, mass production, and the automobile.
c. Describe the impact of radio and the movies.
d. Describe modern forms of cultural expression; include Louis Armstrong and the origins of jazz, Langston Hughes and the Harlem
Renaissance, Irving Berlin, and Tin Pan Alley.
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KEY INFORMATION
What was the Red Scare?
What actions did the federal government take to rid the U.S. of this scare and
return to “Normalcy”?
 Two Actions
1.
RED SCARE
2.
What were the “Traditional” roles of women
in American society?
What actions did the federal government take to elevate women into a state of
Normalcy?
WOMEN’S
SUFFRAGE
19TH AMENDMENT
How did the role of women during WWI
change the common view of their place in
society?
How did the 19th Amendment affect the role of women in the 20’s?
What was Sacco and Vanzetti charged with?
Why were they arrested?
What type of evidence was used to convict Sacco and Vanzetti?
SACCO AND VANZETT
How did government treatment of immigrants challenge the idea of “Normalcy” in the US?
Station
Key Information
What teachings were at conflict in this
court case?
Where and when did the trial take place?
SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL
What steps did the state of Tennessee take to ensure that their agenda of
“Normalcy” was upheld?
How did the public react to the government’s verdict and their attempt
to maintain “Normalcy”?
Who did the KKK focus their attacks on?
What social norms of the 1920’s did the KKK resist?
KU KLUX KLAN
How did the actions of the Ku Klux Klan challenge the “Normalcy” of the 1920’s created by the federal government?
What were Flappers?
FLAPPERS
What were they trying to accomplish or gain in
“Cultural America”?
How did Flappers attack the social “Norms” of US society and
seek to change the normal role for women?
What was the goal of prohibition?
What amendment and act outlawed the manufacture, sale and
possession of alcohol?
Amendment
Act
PROHIBITION
How did this amendment give way to organized crime? How did the public react to the government’s attempt at “Normalcy”?
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
How did this movement bring “Normalcy” to a diverse culture?
Harlem Renaissance
Who were some of the key players and what did they do?
1.
2.
Who was Henry Ford?
What did he do to improve the automobile and its production?
1.
Henry Ford
2.
How did Tin Pan Alley receive its name?
How did Tin Pan Alley give rise to popular culture and Normalcy in the US?
Tin Pan Alley
Who was the Pioneer of Commercial Radio?
How much did the first radios cost? And how many homes were they located
in across the United States
Entertainment
Who was Clara Bow and what was her nickname?