Prohibition and the Flappers
The Roaring 20s!!!
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/roots
-of-prohibition/
It’s a Wonderful Life
Charleston
General Mood…
• 1920s dominated by conservative Republican
presidents
• Americans experienced an unprecedented burst
of consumer activity due to mass-production
commodities available
• Tensions prevailed between rural and urban
America
• Feelings of nativism and racism ran high
• U.S. government persecuted radicals in the red
scare.
Aim: Should the 1920s be considered a cultural shift or a
revolution?
Vocab/Identifications
Christian Women’s Temperance Union
Prohibition fundamentalist roots
KKK support for Prohibition
18th Amendment
Volstead Act
Charleston
Speakeasies
Racketeers
Al Capone
Sigmund Freud
Essential Questions:
(1) Who can we consider the corrupt ones, the law makers or the
law breakers?
Activity
Walk around the room to the stations (there are 4 total…each half of
the room has a set).
Read the sheets with your group. Jot down notes.
Go back to an empty area with your group and discuss what
conclusions you can draw from what you read/heard/saw. Use your
knowledge from this and the other 1920s lessons to come up with
your answer to
(1)Who can we consider the corrupt ones, the law makers or the law
breakers?
(2)Were the law breakers and flappers revolutionaries in their own
right? Why or why not.
(3)Are flappers a version on feminists?
(4)Which wins – fundamentalism or modernism?
USE EVIDENCE FOR YOUR RESPOSES!!!
The Lingo
Tin Lizzie (1915) – automobile. “Let’s go for a ride in my tin
lizzie.”
Sheik (1919) – ladies’ man (dreamboat, heartthrob)
Know One’s Onions (1922) – to be thoroughly
knowledgeable or competent in a subject area. “That
Plumber really knows his onions.”
Hotsy-totsy (1926) – pleasing, perfect, fine, sometimes
used ironically… “Once I got bumped up to first-class,
everything was hotsy-totsy.”
Ankle (1926) – to walk. “She ankled over to the popsicle
stand.”
All-Wet (1923) – completely wrong, in error. “He’s all wet
on those dot-com stocks.”
The Bee’s Knees (1923) – extraordinary person or thing,
unparalleled excellence.
“This American History class is the bee’s knees.”
The Berries (1917) – something or someone unusually
attractive, pleasing, or excellent.
“My new boyfriend is the berries.
Introduce DBQ
Directions: The following question requires you to
construct a coherent essay that integrates your
interpretation of the following Documents and
your knowledge of the period referred to in the
question. High scores will be earned only by
essays that both cite key pieces of evidence from
the documents and draw on outside knowledge of
the period.
“The economic prosperity of the 1920s failed to
prevent the social, cultural, and political
divisions of the United States.” Assess the
validity of this statement using the documents
and your knowledge of the period of the 1920s.
DBQ…
20s Presidents
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