The Roaring Twenties
The 'Roaring Twenties' helped set the tone for the rest of the century:
mass consumer culture and fads, Prohibition-inspired gangsters, the
automobile, debates on evolution, immigration restrictions, and econimic
decline in rural America.
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Lesson Plans | Primary
Sources
Lesson Plans:
Twenties
Magazine Project - Cross curricular lesson plan with literature,
art and history. Students are to create a magazine covering aspects
of culture, politics, arts, music, lifestyles and the like from
the 1920's. This lesson has a rubric and an assignment sheet.
The
Harlem Renaissance - Students analyze the major political, social,
economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920s.
Focuses on the Harlem Renaissance.
Pacificism
vs. Patriotism in the 20s - This lesson plan will allow students
to understand the philosophy of The Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) toward war and disarmament; to explore
the atmosphere of the "Red Scare" and its impact on peace
organizations; to examine the DAR's opposition to pacifism and disarmament
The
Music of the Roaring Twenties - Download music clips from the
1920s. Artists include Al Jolson, Sid Gary, Eddie Cantor, Fannie
Brice.
Primary Source Documents:
Red
Scare (1918-1921) Image Databaset - RED SCARE is an image database
about the period in the history of the United States immediately following
World War I. The dates are approximately from the Armistice in November
of 1918 to the collapse of hyper-inflation in mid-1920. It relies
entirely on the contemporary visual record of that time. The first
quarter of the 20th Century was a period rich in this form of material
from newspapers to illustrated magazines.
USHistorySite Extension:
Red
Scare Cartoons, good compliment to above lesson.
The
Monkey Trial, Tennessee v. John Scopes - Website dedicated to
the Scopes Trial, with primary source documents, including images,
newspaper clippings, eye-witness accounts, journal entries, the anti-evolution
statute (House Bill No. 185), text from court and the Court's decisions.
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