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Part 1:The Tulsa Race RiotsInstructions: Watch the 5-minute video about the Tulsa Race Riots and answer the questions below.1. What year did the Tulsa race riots take place?2. Where is Tulsa located? (You may have to google this)3. What was the African American community in Tulsa like? 4. What sparked the local whites to become angry and why did that one false accusation cause mass violence against the African American community?5. Describe the violence that took place in “Black Tulsa”. Map of Violence Against Black Communities 1. What are your thoughts as you first look at the map? Does anything surprise you? You can click on each location to see details about the act of violence that took place. 2. The map traces “collective punishment”. What does that mean?3. Click on four different locations, and compare and contrast the violent actions. Do they have similar/different numbers of victims, time periods, details?Part 2: Racial Terrorism One-Pager InstructionsOnce you have examined all of the resources for “Part 2”, you will need to create a one-pager on the following page.Requirements: Other than one part, you can organize your one-pager in the way you feel is best, but your page must include all of the requirements listed below.-Title your one-pager-The definitions of racial terrorism and lynching should fill the border area-Stats related to lynching: Overall numbers and time period-Draw the two states the have the highest numbers of lynchings and include the number-Descriptions of two of the main reasons why an African American would be lynched-Include two examples of what happened to the victim(s) (these can be from the map website or the reading)-Explain what role the legal system and laws played in lynching.-Why do you think it was fairly common for lynchings to become a public spectacle during this time period? -Think about the history of race in the United States that you have learned so far. Why did parts of America participate in lynchings, choose to witness a lynching, or say or do nothing as thousands of African Americans were murdered? -Two things you wonder about this topic.Part 3 Resources/Instructions: The Great Migration For this part, you will be learning about the mass movement of African Americans out of the South during the 1910s and 20s, and will take a look at the everyday life of African Americans in Harlem during what the time period that is called the Harlem Renaissance. 1. Maps of The Great Migration: Please look at the interactive map and Map #2 2. Great Migration Reading3. After reading and examining the sources in #1 and #2, you will be creating a map of the United States. For the map:-Shade the map to show the population change in the 5 states that had the greatest decrease in African American population and the 5 states that had the largest increase. Include some of the city stats from the interactive map. -Title the map-Create a box that includes 1) a sentence summary of the great migration 2) the main reason(s) African Americans left the South and/or moved to the North and 3) the 2-3 stats and facts that are the most important and 4) Why did African Americans tend to create distinct black communities within cities. -13047538247700Part 4:” The New Woman”Part 4: “The New Woman” Article and FashionThe New Women Read the article and answer the following questions.1. How did male politicians initially react to women getting the right to vote in 1920?2. What divided the women’s movement during the 1920s? Why did it divide them?3. How were some feminist groups perceived by the government and the public? 4. What types of jobs did women work in? What kind of obstacles did female workers face?Fashion Questions1. In what ways did fashion change for women during the 1920s?2. Who pushed for the change in fashion?3. Describe what fashion was like prior to the 1920s.Part 4: Smithsonian Magazine Flapper ArticleQuestions: 1. In the article, there are two accounts written by flappers from the 1920s. How do those women describe themselves? 2. How did older women view flappers?3. What factors contributed to young women changing the way they dressed, thought and behaved?Directions: For this part, use the hierarchy graphic organizer, on the following page, to illustrate how women in the 1920s progressed, and how the lives and rights of many women didn’t improve.What your graphic organizer should include: -Specific examples of how women’s fashion, lifestyle, interests, hobbies, rights, relationships, etc. progressed (improved) during the 20s.-Specific examples of how women’s rights, labor rights, relationships, etc. did not improve during the 1920s and how women’s rights groups became divided. Part 5: The Consumer Economy and American Mass Culture QuestionsRead the article and look at these 1920s ads and then answer the following questions.1. List at least 4 inventions or new products and how they changed the lives of most Americans.2. How did the auto industry expand during the 1920s? What impact did the automobile have on America?3. How did what Americans eat change during this time period? Why did it change?4. What was different about advertising during the 1920s? 5. Advertisements can offer insights into culture and society. Pick one of the ads and explain what that ad tells you about society and culture during the 1920s. Be sure to describe specific details in the ad that support what you write. The ad you picked: ______________________6. Find a current ad for a popular product today. Copy and paste the ad into this document. What does the ad say about society and culture today? Be sure to describe specific details in the ad that support what you write. 5. How widespread did consumer credit become? What does credit allow a consumer to do? Part 6: “Why it Happened” Questions1. What was life like for most Americans during the 1920s? Did all Americans share in the prosperity that was described at Station 4?2. Describe the economic condition of Native Americans and Mexican-Americans during the 1920s.3. What happened to farmers during the 1920s? What caused their problems?4. Describe income inequality during the 1920s. Was everyone able to enjoy the inventions and new forms of entertainment that the 1920s provided?5. What made economic hard times even worse in the US?Part 7: Prohibition Video and Article QuestionsPart 7: Prohibition Video ()Questions: 1. How does Al Capone relate to the Prohibition Era?2. What kind of behavior was Al Capone involved in? 3. What was Chicago like during Prohibition and the height of Al Capone’s power?4. Describe how famous Al Capone became.Part 7: Prohibition Article Questions: Use evidence from the article to support your answer. 1. How did the government try to enforce the law? Was enforcement successful? Explain2. What were some of the benefits of prohibition?3. Describe some of the unintended consequences of prohibition..4.Why did the US decide to repeal the 18th amendment with the 21st amendment?5. Did prohibition have a positive impact or was it a waste of the government’s time?6. What can the US currently learn, about legislating morals or trying to ban harmful substances, from prohibition?Part 8: Immigration and NativismPart 8: Mexican Immigrant Worker Primary Document Questions1. What type of document is this? Do you trust the information in it? Why or why not?2. Based on the document, where in the US did Mexicans live ? What type of work did they do? 3. Why do you think the man being interviewed had to move so many times? If he moved again, where do you think he went to? Why?Immigration Chart Questions1. What does this chart show?2. Why does the chart change over time? Did the Immigration Act accomplish its goals?Part 8: “When Americans Lynched Mexicans” QuestionsRead the article at this station and answer the following questions?1. Were you aware that Mexicans were commonly the victim of lynchings in the United States? If so, where did you learn that information? If you weren’t, what is your reaction to reading and learning about this?2. Why do you think people wanted to watch other people being lynched? What do you think this says about people?3. How did the lynching of Mexicans differ from the lynching of African Americans?4. When was this article published? 100 years later, are we still learning more about his time period?Part 8: Flowchart InstructionsDirections: For this part, create a flowchart, on the following page, that illustrates how immigration went from the historic highs of the Gilded Age (late 1800s) to historic lows following the Immigration Act of 1924. Use the graphic organizer Bullman has copies of. What your flowchart should include: -Specific information about how immigrants were viewed by society and how they were treated. Quotes and stats from the NY Times article would be useful. -Numbers of immigrants per decade before the Immigration Act of 1924-Information about the Immigration Act of 1924 and the impact it had on immigration ................
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