Look through pages 515-567 and answer the questions at the top of your page:
What do you see that makes the 1920s look like a “roaring” time?
Following difficult times, do you think most people look for things that are familiar and comfortable to them? Do most look for new and different things? Explain your thoughts. You may consider what you did after a difficult time in your life.

1.
President Harding promises a “return to normalcy”: normalcy = isolationism
(stay out of foreign affairs)
2. urbanization leads to social tensions
(urban, young modernism vs. rural, old traditionalism)
3. laissez-faire (hands-off) government
Let’s return to normalcy.

How are the ideas and culture of the city different than those of small towns?
How are the ideas and culture of the younger generation different than those of the older generation?

essential question:

By the 1920s, over half of Americans live in the cities.
this sets the stage for the social tensions of the 1920s: ideas and culture of the modern young, urban America vs. ideas and culture of the traditional older, rural America
(note colors)

examples:
Are the following traditionalist or modernist?
• likes isolationism
• wants to pursue
= traditionalist
“reds” to “return to
• supports conviction
= traditionalist normalcy”
• against Palmer Raids = modernist of Sacco and
= traditionalist
Vanzetti
• supports the quota system
= traditionalist

We will begin by noting some basic information about each side of the culture clash on your pages.
You are to add an additional note at the bottom from the discussion, videos, or text.

ISSUE: RACISM
• Ku Klux Klan reemerges, especially in rural areas

• Marcus Garvey leads the “Back to Africa” movement for blacks to find equality in
Africa

• Great Migration competition for jobs race riots
(white traditionalists attack new black population) race riots (young blacks rebel against discrimination)

• NAACP and others attack discrimination more aggressively using the law video link

ISSUE: PROHIBITION
• older, rural
Americans support prohibition
(18 th Amendment)

• bootleggers illegally sold alcohol

• speakeasies were secret bars

• organized crime grows from selling illegal alcohol video link

ISSUE: FUNDAMENTALISM
• older, rural Americans supported fundamentalism (strict interpretation of the
Bible)
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
=

• Scopes trial challenges teaching evolution in school ( Tennessee = traditionalism ;
Scopes = modernism )

• William Jennings Bryan attacks evolution
• Clarence Darrow defends evolution
Clarence
Darrow, left;
William
Jennings
Bryan, right video link

ISSUE: ROLE OF WOMEN
• older, rural
Americans think women should be in the home raising kids

• flappers with new fashions (shorter hair and dresses) and more independent video link

What’s their story? Explain what is going on in each of the pictures below the picture.
example:
After a tough day of chasing bootleggers, these cops needed a beer from the local speakeasy.

Listen to Louis
Armstrong’s song
“Heebie Jeebies” and answer the following:
1. How is this song
“roaring?”
2. What do you think
“heebie jeebies” are?
3. Do you think this song is more associated with the young urban population or the old rural population in the
1920s America?
painting of Louis Armstrong by Leonid Afremov

essential question:

The Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance :
• The 1920s is commonly referred to as Jazz
Age because of the improvisational and exciting energy of the time.

• Jazz originated in
New Orleans, but would help to define the Harlem
Renaissance in
New York .

• was the first time in
America that the white population embraced the art of African Americans as true art

Skim pages
558-563 in the textbook and list more people and art associated with the Harlem
Renaissance.

literature of the Harlem Renaissance:
How do we see African-
American culture being celebrated in the following excerpts from Langston
Hughes poetry?
“In a Harlem cabaret
Six long-headed jazzers play.
A dancing girl whose eyes are bold
Lifts high a dress of silken gold.”
“The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.”
“Sure,
I'm happy!
Take it away!
Hey, pop!
Re-bop!
Mop!
Y-e-ah!”

art of the Harlem Renaissance:
How do we see African-
American culture being celebrated in the following art?

Answer the following on your notes sheet
Does the media (radio, music, movies, etc.) do more to show our culture or does the media do more to shape our culture?
Explain.

essential question:

• U.S. becomes a society of consumers by the 1920s

• middle class = who can afford goods (i.e. radios, household appliances, cars)
1926 Ford Model T Tudor Sedan

• advertising expands, leads to more buying
In the 1920s, advertising for Lysol disinfectant started subtly suggesting that it could be used as a contraceptive. Lysol offered booklets explaining "What feminine hygiene really is" for those not astute enough to realize that the repeated claims to "kill germs" were meant to be read as "kill sperm."

• music, magazines, and “talkies” both show and expand culture (how we dress, how we talk, etc.)

• media presents heroes of individual, superficial accomplishments (Babe Ruth,
Charles Lindbergh)

1920s Pictionary rules:
1. One person from the first team is chosen to draw.
2. The team has one minute to guess which term is being drawn. The person drawing may not :
• use letters or numbers of any kind.
• make any sounds.
3. Other teams can, rotating to the next group first, guess the term if the drawing team does not.
4. The same person cannot draw twice.