USII - Loudoun County Public Schools
1920’s
Learning Packet
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USII.6a-c Name __________________
“Roaring Twenties” Entrance Pass
Predict:
1) How did Americans feel after WWI?
2) How do you think they acted during the Twenties? “DO NOT USE I”
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Automobile Activity [pic]
1. Brainstorm on Your Own: List as many things (such as products, industries, or activities) as possible that resulted from the automobile.
Products (tires) Activities and Services Industries (oil)
(drive-ins)
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2. Partner – Share your ideas in a group. Add group members’ ideas to your chart.
3. Now, in your group, create a web of all of your ideas on separate paper. (Use the web to show the relationships between ideas.)
4. Share your ideas with the class.
USII.6a-c Name __________________
“Roaring Twenties” Exit Pass (Consumerism)
1) How did Americans behave during the Twenties? Think Consumerism
2) Do you think Americans should have done things differently during the Twenties?
Think Credit
Why or why not?
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USII.6c Name
Date
Harlem Renaissance
Complete a web for each item you examine. Whose work did your teacher share with you? What was it like? Use at least 4 details for each one.
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Music
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Poetry
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Art
USII.6b Name
Date
18th Amendment
The 18th amendment was passed in 1919 and repealed (ended) in 1933 with the 21st amendment. Read the following section of the amendment, and re-write its meaning in your own words.
1) After one year from ratification of this article
2) the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
3) within (the United States),
4) the importation thereof into, or
5) the exportation thereof from the United States
6) and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof
7) for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
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USII.6b Name __________________________
Prohibition Four-Square
Was Prohibition a good idea or not? (Do you think it failed because the government did not do what was necessary, or because it was fundamentally flawed – just a bad idea?)
Prohibition Pros/Cons Chart (Each person assigned pro or con position.)
|a) Pros or Cons (whichever assigned) – Brainstorm by yourself. | b) Share ideas with a partner (same position, Pro or Con). |
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|c) Share ideas with another pair (opposite position). |d) In your opinion, was Prohibition a good idea? Why or why not? (Explain why you do not think|
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USII.6b-c Name __________________
“Roaring Twenties” Cultural Experiments Exit Pass
1) Which of the Twenties movements that you learned about (flappers, Harlem Renaissance, or Prohibition) do you think was most important?
2) Why? (at least five complete sentences) “DO NOT USE I”
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III. Prohibition
• Prohibited manufacture, trade, and sale of alcohol
• Results of the18th Amendment
1. Speakeasies
2. Bootleggers
3. Increased crime
• Repeal of 18th amendment (21st)
II. The Great Migration
• African Americans face hardships in the South
• face discrimination and violence
• Results in migration to the north
• Harlem Renaissance – rebirth of African-American culture
I. Cultural Changes
• Consumerism
• Mass society
• American icons
(celebrities)
• Changing morals
• Flappers
how American society changed in the years between World War I and World War II
is about
TERMS, PEOPLE AND PLACES
|Louis Armstrong |Georgia O’Keefe |composer |jazz |
|Aaron Copland |Bessie Smith |culture |migration |
|Duke Ellington |John Steinbeck |decade |organized crime |
|F. Scott Fitzgerald |18th Amendment |discrimination |Prohibition |
|George Gershwin |19th Amendment |flappers |scarce jobs |
|Langston Hughes |bootleggers |Great Migration |speakeasies |
|Jacob Lawrence |Blues |Harlem Renaissance |Temperance |
II. Society Changes
1920s-1930s
SELF-TEST QUESTIONS:
1. What was Prohibition and how effective was it?
2. Why did African Americans migrate to northern cities?
3. Who were the leaders of American cultural life in the 1920s?
4. What were the contributions of the leaders in art, literature,
and music?
5. How did the Harlem Renaissance influence American life?
Next Unit
Great Depression and the New Deal
Previous Unit
Technological Changes
Significant Developments in the Early 20th Century
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how electricity was generated and distributed to both rural and urban areas, providing power for . . .
❑ radio
baseball and boxing
theater
concerts
humor & variety shows
❑ movies
newsreels
classical drama
romance
comedy
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Entertainment
Young and old used their leisure time to enjoy
leading to
opening up
moving towards
III. Changes in American Life
Through Electrification
• Labor-saving machines
• Electric lighting (Edison)
• Entertainment
II. New Ways of Communicating
• Telephones (Bell)
• Radio (Marconi)
• Movies (Edison)
I. Soaring Transportation
• Automobile industry
• Wright brothers invent the airplane
how technological developments in transportation, communication, and electrification changed American life
is about
TERMS, PEOPLE AND PLACES
|Ford, Henry |appliance |mobility |suburban |
|Lindbergh, Charles |assembly line |progress |talkies |
|Marconi, Guglielmo |boom |prosper |technology |
|Sarnoff, David |broadcast |transportation- related |
| |industries |industries |
|Wright brothers | |rural electrification | |
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I. Technological Changes
SELF-TEST QUESTIONS:
1. How did technology change the way Americans lived in the early twentieth century?
2. How did affordable automobiles change American life?
Next Unit
Society
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Previous Unit
U.S. Emerges as a World Power
Families, farms & factories
hElectrification
three ways electricity makes your life easier today.
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Significant Developments in the Early 20th Century
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❑ work
❑ study
❑ play
Electric Lighting
Families, farms & factories
had more “daylight hours” to
❑ washing machines
❑ electric stoves
❑ water pumps
❑ dishwashers
something to help with the cleaning
Labor-saving Machines
In an age of prosperity, consumers could afford
List three ways electricity makes your life easier today. “Do Not USE I”
Electrification
Is about …
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failing with
leading to
prompting
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uniquely American music
Musical composers
captured the flavor of life in the United States
Writers
paintings of both
Artist
golfer; known as gentleman
baseball; “Sultan of Swat”
Aaron Copland
George Gershwin
Rodeo; Appalachian Spring
blues and jazz influences
The Great Gatsby – novel about the empty prosperity of the Jazz Age
Grapes of Wrath – novel portraying the strength of migrant workers
F.Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
urban scenes
and
the Southwest
Georgia O’Keeffe
BIG IDEA: The 1920s and 1930s were important
decades for American sports, art, literature, and music.
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Athletes
1920s- 1930s
American Icons
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became celebrities
Bobby Jones
Babe Ruth
The federal banking system could not stop the crisis.
Anti-communism led to anti-immigrant feeling and the growth of the Ku Klux Klan.
U.S.-supported treaties could not stop European militarism and imperialism.
After a decade of inflation, the government suddenly decreased the money supply.
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Corporations and investors lost lots of money.
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For most African Americans, jobs were scarce and pay was low. C5
African Americans still faced discrimination at work, school, travel, and leisure. E3
African Americans could not exercise their right to vote.
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Stories from friends and relatives, advertisements, and recruiters encouraged families to move north.
E2
Many African Americans had the opportunity to vote and to receive a formal education. E4
Racial hate groups, like the KKK, committed acts of violence against African Americans. C1
ricans (including lynching).
poor living conditions for African Americans in the rural South E5
The Great Migration Mix ’n’ Match
Try your hand at making sense of the Great Migration. Decide which pairs of boxes you think best fit together in cause-effect relationships. Next you should
1) color-code the paired boxes
and, based on your teacher’s directions, either
2) cut out the boxes and paste them in pairs on a page in your journal (with causes on the left and effects on the right) OR
3) label each box ‘C’ for cause or ‘E’ for effect with a matching number 1-5.
a mass movement of African Americans to the urban North in search of a new life C4
Northern factories offered plentiful jobs and higher salaries. C2
Many European-American Northerners were also prejudiced against African Americans. C3
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Economic Problems Leading to Depression
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Scandals like Teapot Dome led voters to turn against Republicans during the Depression.
As countries tried to protect their businesses with taxes on imports, trade decreased even more.
Eventually, businesses could not sell all of their goods and either lost money or closed.
1920s Problems
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Final Questions: What are the top three things that you would have changed to try to prevent the Great Depression? Explain.
People borrowed and spent more money than they could afford to repay.
Collapse of Banking System
Stock-Market Crash
High Tariffs
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Rapid Deflation
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Artist of the Great Migration
Jacob Lawrence
Langston Hughes
Poet
combined cultures
“Dream Deferred,”
“Ballad of Booker T,”
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
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jazz instrumentalists, composers, and singers
jazz instrumentalists, composers, and singers
Musicians
popular throughout Europe and the United States
Writers, artists, and musicians based in Harlem, New York
People
who changed society
by revealing the freshness and variety of African American culture.
BIG IDEA: The Harlem Renaissance drew upon the heritage
of black culture to create a powerful force for change.
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Harlem Renaissance
Cultural Movement
Overuse of Credit
Loss of Business
Political Corruption
Nativism
Diplomatic failures
Non-Economic Problems
Effects
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Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Bessie Smith
Jazz and Blues
Langston Hughes
Wrote about African American culture
Civil Rights
Harlem Renaissance
Jacob Lawrence
Great Migration
Simple paintings
Very colorful
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