11th Grade American History
Mr. Dalton’s Class
Subject: Chapter 14
The Roaring Twenties!!!!
Objectives:
• Describe the social tensions that arose
in the United States after World War
One
• explain how the policies of Presidents
Harding and Coolidge encouraged
business expansion and prosperity
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Objectives:
• Describe new sources of popular
entertainment during the 1920s
• describe the messages and forms of
artistic expression in the 1920s
Objectives:
• Identify and explain the reasons for
divisions in American society
• explain what led to the wave of strikes
in industry
• describe what developments
characterized the literature of the 1920s
Activity One:
• Have the students read excerpts from
the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott
Fitzgerald. It is a coming of age story
illustrating the moral emptiness of
society during the 1920s.
Activity Two:
• The students will be put into groups of
4 and each will create a short visual or
oral report on some aspect of American
society during the twenties. The
students may create a tape of popular
songs, a poster of famous sports
figures, examples of fashions in clothing
or a model of a speakeasy
Activity Three:
• The students will watch the video, The
Reckless Years, 1919 - 1929. It
demonstrates how corruption and
government inaction contributed to the
worst depression in the nation’s history.
Then they will discuss the main points
of the video.
Activity Four:
• The students will get into their groups
and work at the computers on the CD
ROM, America’s Presidents Series: world
Wars, Prosperity and Depression Presidents between the two World
Wars. After they are done reviewing
the Presidents from this time period,
they will write a paragraph explaining
what they would have done if they were
president
Activity Five:
• The students, as a class, will create a
newspaper called, The Tense Times. By
using the book they will come up with
headlines that dealt with this decade
and come up with stories to write and
they will have the chance to read the
other class’s papers and discuss their
ideas as well.
Activity Six:
• Each student will list five important
events of the country’s adjustment after
WW I and write an explanatory
statement about each. They will share
this with the class. Mainly discussing
the atmosphere of the U.S. after WW I.
Activity Seven:
• Working in groups the students will
imagine that they are part of the
Harding administration and list the
people that they would indict as well as
list the reasons for doing so. We will
then discuss it as a class, making notes
on the board
Activity Eight:
• The students will do a short report
researching the automobile industry
during the 1920s. They may draw a
diagram of an assembly line, create an
illustrated timeline of the styles of cars,
or write a history of the development of
the nation’s major car manufacturers.
Activity Eine:
• As a class we will discuss the prosperity
of the 1920s, with the class after
listening to the question, how were the
lives of the workers affected by
economic growth in the 1920s.
Activity Ten:
• The students will get into their groups
and discuss the things that parents
criticized in the 1920s, and compare
that to what their parents criticize of
them today.
• They will also discuss how radio
changed life in America.
Important Terms:
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Red Scare
Palmer Raids
American Plan
Ohio Gang
Teapot Dome
Scandal
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Flapper
Harlem Renaissance
Lost Generation
Volstead Act
Important People:
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Al Capone
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Ford
Marcus Garvey
Ku Klux Klan
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Charles A. Lindbergh
John Scopes
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Web sites to get more
information:
• Http://www.wic.org
• http://www.whitehouse.gov/library
• http://ethics.acusd.edu/roaringtwenties.
html
• http://www.yahoo.com/hist/greatdepres
sion
• http://www.yahoo.com/stockmarketcras
h.html
More Web sites:
• Http://www.altavista.com/roaringtwenti
es/
• http://www.history-journals.de
• http://www.classroom.net/19191929.hmtl
• http://www.mindspring.com/history/sto
ckmarketcrash.htm