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USHistory-1920s
Eyewitness History-1920's
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Use the resources to research the following:
KKK Member
What are your beliefs? (Why are you xenophobic?)
What are you trying to represent/protect?
What methods do you use to carry out your goals?
What laws would you support?
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Describe the circumstances around your arrest?
Why do you feel you did(not) get a fair trial?
What was the final outcome of the trial?
A. Mitchell Palmer
What are you trying to represent/protect?
What methods do you use to carry out your goals?
Explain how the public both supported and opposed your actions.
Important Terms:
Immigration Acts of 1921 & 1924
Palmer Raids
Quota
Racism
Red Scare
Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
Xenophobia
Flapper
Describe your lifestyle as a "flapper"
How do you respond to those who criticize you?
What are your feelings about the women of earlier, more traditional generations?
Margaret Sanger
What new ideas and attitudes did you encourage women to have?
What opposition have you encountered?
Traditional Woman/Housewife
Describe your lifestyle as a housewife
How do you respond to those who criticize you?
What are your feelings about the young women of the current generation?
Important Terms:
Changing role of women
Flapper
Hedonism
Roaring '20's - this link is good for many of these topics
Henry Ford
What impact has the assembly line had on automobile production?
How have automobiles impacted the average American?
How has the automobile stimulated other business and industries?
Appliance Store Owner
What new technology are you selling to consumers?
How is it affecting your business?
How has installment buying impacted your business?
Average Married Husband/Wife
How has new technology affected your family? (3 examples)
How has installment buying impacted your spending and standard of living?
Important Terms
Advertising
Assembly Line
Installment buying/buying on credit
Leisure time activities
Mass production
Al Capone
What is your view on prohibition?
What activities did you get involved in during this era?
How did you benefit from from these activities?
How did the public view your actions/activities?
Common (drinking) Man
What is your view on prohibition?
What actions/activitiesdid you get involved in during this era?
How much government regulation should there be in your life?
Francis Willard
What is your view on prohibition?
What actions/activities did you get involved in during this era?
How much government regulation shoud there be in your life?
Important Terms
18th Ammendment
21st Amendment
Bootlegging
Gangster
Organized Crime
Speakeasy
Langston Hughes
Describe some of your accomplishments
How did your achievements change the 1920's?
How did your works influence the Harlem Renaissance?
John Scopes
Describe the circumstances surrounding your trial
How did your trial change the 1920's?
How did the public percieve you?
Warren G. Harding
Your policies promised us a return to "normalcy" Why and what does this mean?
How did your policies (domestic and foreign) go about doing this?
How did you change the 1920's?
Important Terms
Creationism
Harlem Renaissance
Normalcy
Scopes Monkey Trial
