The+Roaring+20s

= = =**[|ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS] **= = = = EQ1. Do movements away from traditional values have a positive impact on society? = = = = EQ2. Is change always positive? = = = = EQ3: What is the appropriate role for government in citizens' lives? =

Put Worksheet for preview here** =[|Quick view - events of this decade]= =[|Terms for Unit - Review Paragraph & Game]= =Life After the Great War = 

[|American Women]

[|Changing Roles of Women] [|The Roaring '20s]

19th Amendment - Women's Suffrage - 1920
This amendment to the US Constitution gave **women suffrage - or the right to vote** throughout the __entire country__. Even before this law passed, women in some states mostly in the west had already acquired the right to vote. Due to a smaller population in a fairly large state, Wyoming had given women the right to vote in 1869. This was 51 years earlier than the 19th Amendment! Wyoming didn't stop there. **Nellie Tayloe Ross** became the first women to be elected governor in 1924 in the state of Wyoming. Nellie's husband passed away tragically while campaigning for governor, Nellie carried on in her husband's footsteps. Despite her inexperience, Nellie advocated for changing labor laws protecting children, women & miners. She also proposed tax cuts, banking reforms, & government assistance for farmers. Many of her reforms were passed in one way or another. She served one term as governor and was narrowly defeated for a second term, but went on to serve Wyoming & later in Franklin Roosevelt's administration.
 * Nellie Tayloe Ross - 1st Woman to be elected governor of Wyoming 1924.**

A Decade of Change - 1920s
[|CEPA] - Magazine Article & Cover -  [|Magazine Cover Rubric]

The 1920s was a decade of peace after the Great War, prosperity, social change, and cultural conflict. Technology greatly impacted the life of the common man, woman & child with new inventions or new innovations on older ideas: Cars, Radios, Movies, Refrigerator, Washers etc. *The Red Scare, or fear of Communism triggered a larger fear of foreigners and anti-American activists. *There was widespread post-war labor unrest, including over 3,000 strikes involving over 4 million workers nationwide. *In the 1920s, many Americans began using credit to buy new consumers products and invest in the stock market.
 * American women were granted the right to vote in 1920.
 * Prohibition divided the nation.

*Key terms: Boston Police Strike, Red Scare, communism, Sacco and Vanzetti, Scopes Trial, Flappers, Harlem Renaissance, Great Migration, buying on installation, Nellie Tayloe Ross [|Life in 1920s - Post World War I] [|Roaring Twenties - Great Website] [|"Great Gatsby"]

**United States Presidents - 1920s -** **A Return to "Normalcy**"The 1920s were known as the "Roaring Twenties" - a time when the United States was trying to return to a "normal" life as President Harding & his Vice-President Coolidge promised in their campaign in 1922. But the the decade was anything but normal with all of the new trends, habits & inventions that were to make life easier. The controversies of the '20s, opposition to organized labor(p.625 - Anthem), the growing distrust of foreign political philosophies, questioning of new scientific theories, increased discrimination toward immigrants & continued racist policies were just a few ideas affecting societies. Combine the argument of Prohibition vs. Temperance to the news breaking cases of Sacco & Vanzetti or the Scopes Trial, and you have yourself quite a turbulent decade known as the Roaring Twenties! [|Chart: Harding & Coolidge]

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Rise of the Bolsheviks in Russia 1917 - Communism & the Red Scare
[|Digital History - The Red Scare & Palmer Raids]
 * == How did the Russian Revolution affect American lives?? ==
 * == Why did the Bolsheviks replace the Germans (sometimes called Huns or Krauts - unflattering terms) as the object of American fear & hatred? ==

Russian peasants were extremely poor and starving and no longer had confidence in their leader, Czar Nicholas II nor his type of autocratic rule. World War I failed to stir Russian nationalism as soldiers were ill- equipped for battle and food and supplies were scarce. In March of 1917, Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate the throne as people rioted in the street for food. Disagreements continued on who should lead the government and what type of government was best for Russia. In October of 1917, Vladimir Lenin, a follower of the ideas of Karl Marx led the Bolshevik Revolution. Karl Marx in 1848 published his theories of social, political, and economic change in the //Communist Manifesto.// In this revolutionary work, Marx encouraged workers to unite and revolt. Following the Marxist theory, Lenin returned from being exiled to lead the Russian peasants to overthrow both the czar and the interim provisional government in Russia. Lenin called for his new government to take all private property and redistribute all wealth among all comrades. All property was seized and life as was formerly known in Imperial Russia completely changed according to the mandate of the Communist Party. In 1922, Russia was renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, commonly known as the Soviet Union until 1991.
 * Russian Revolution in a Nutshell**



How do these issues add to changes in America in the 1920s? Are these changes positive?
**1.)American Reaction to Red Scare** **2.) Labor Strife Grows**

3.) Limiting Immigration
[|Pied Piper - Political Cartoon]

[|GREAT VIDEO for the 3 topics]
Congress set quota laws for immigration in 1921 and 1924. Which immigrant populations were affected and why might they have been targeted?

**[|Sacco & Vanzetti]**



[|Trial of Sacco & Vanzetti] Review the statements of the witnesses for the defense & witnesses for the prosecution. Do you think the convictions of Sacco & Vanzetti were justified? Explain your answer. [|more info & primary sources]

[|Upton Sinclair on the case]

D[|igital History Sacco & Vanzetti]

= =Theory of Evolution vs. Creationism 1927 Scopes(Monkey)Trial =

[|Scopes Trial]

= = = Clarence Darrow- Evolution Theory vs. William Jennings Bryan - Creationism = [|Scopes Retell Worksheet] [|Scopes Case Timeline PBS] [|Evolution vs. Creationism Today: Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham] [|Scopes Monkey Trial - Video]

[|Historic footage] 1.Reporter: What would you say if you were the reporter at the Scopes Trial. Millions of Americans would hear your report of the Scopes situation. 2.Housewife: Listening to the report of the Scopes Trial. What would your reaction be?
 * __In Their Shoes: Choose a role & write a short paragraph for your role.__**

Technology Note: Up to the end of WWI, radios had been mainly used to transmit Morse Code. In 1920, the Radio Corporation of America(RCA) began to manufacture radio music boxes like you see in the picture. Some radios could be placed on a table top or the more expensive units like the one above were as large as the 1970s television sets. People often tuned into regular shows for entertainment --the first soap operas were broadcast on the radio. The radio was a new way to get the local news. 1.Reporter: What would you say if you were the reporter at the Scopes Trial. Millions of Americans would hear your report of the Scopes situation. 2.Housewife: Listening to the report of the Scopes Trial. What would your reaction be?
 * __In Their Shoes: Choose a role & write a short paragraph for your role.__**



= Prohibition - 18th Amendment =

[|Prohibition Reading] [|Prohibition Video Journal] = Controversy! Wets vs. Drys = = The Argument over Prohibition =



[|Prohibition - 5 min.]



How did the US enforce Prohibition - the 18th Amendment? Unique job opportunities: [|Izzy & Moe - Prohibition Enforcers] media type="custom" key="27274666" [|End of Prohibition] [|Al Capone]

**Do Now: What is the difference between migration & immigration?** > === ===
 * 1) ===According to the map, which northern cities were popular destinations? What possible advantages could these cities present?Choose 3 cities & brainstorm what attracted people to this city. Thin of the economic/social/political/ reasons. ===
 * 1) ====**What were some of the reasons why African Americans migrated north? (Use the text p. 224-226)** ====
 * 2) ====**Were the problems of racism left behind in the South? Explain your answer.** ====

W.E.B.Du Bois, one of the founders of the NAACP and a leading voice in the African American community began publishing //The Crisis// in 1910. This magazine served as a forum for literary talents such as [|Langston Hughes], Countee Cullen, and [|Claude McKay]. [|Marcus Garvey], who came to New York from Jamaica in 1916, spread the message of racial pride and tried to popularize the the idea of returning to Africa. Although he attracted a large following, Garvey never realized his dream. media type="custom" key="25470382" [|The Harlem Renaissance]

==The Jazz Age- Of all the music that filled dance halls and blared from that new contraption, the radio, no sound was more American than jazz. Jazz was born in the South, probably New Orleans, and blended harmonies with West African rhythms, work songs & spirituals to form the unique American art form. Musicians improvised on a theme to make jazz what it is: flexible, unpredictable & alive. Great composers/musicians/singers like [|Bessie Smith], [|Josephine Baker], [|Duke Ellington], [|Louis Armstrong], & [|Count Basie] helped to create the sounds of the Harlem Renaissance.== [|Map for types of jazz connected w/ Great Migration] ==[|Ella Fitzgerald] and [|Billie Holiday] appeared on the jazz scene in the 1930s.==

Henry Ford & the Model T [|Rise of Henry Ford] [|From RR to Automobiles]

[|Reading: Henry Ford & Impact of Automobile]

[|Eyewitness to History: Impact of Car on Society]

=[|More Cultural Heroes of the 1920s] = Charles Lindbergh &Amelia Earhart What do you think you know about these famous Americans? __Aviation__[|__T__imeline] ||
 * = Charles Lindbergh[[image:http://www.charleslindbergh.com/images/map4.gif width="389" height="179"]] = || = Amelia Earhart =
 * [[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xEdRg-6CKJM/TA0wL2pd8uI/AAAAAAAAAE4/bIdzI-gM7E8/s1600/StLouis1920s.jpg width="384" height="297"]] || [[image:https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/8d/82/be/8d82be2e7644db7006ba7b241787771c.jpg width="349" height="299"]] ||


 * = = Babe Ruth = ||= = Charlie Chaplin = ||= = Clara Bow = ||
 * [[image:https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f8/7a/fb/f87afb60e59a39f316fc80e9a9dcc6c5.jpg width="257" height="305"]] || [[image:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yE1jakaG6kk/Sx1fHXwtZoI/AAAAAAAAB8s/40OakGsYVpE/s200/chaplin+picture+play+1925.jpg width="219" height="298"]] || [[image:http://classiccinemaimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Clara-bow-Motion-Picture-Classic-April-1931.jpg width="220" height="292"]] ||

[|Timeline]