1. Write down the following prompts, leaving three lines between in preparation to watch a video about the 1920’s “Boom to Bust” (12:00 to 37:00):
(1) Impact of electricity and the automobile …
(2) Credit culture of America in the 1920’s …
(3) Impact of the radio …
(4) Cultural tension and conflicts during the 1920’s …
(5) The rise of spectator sports …
(6) Charles Lindberg’s accomplishment represents …

2. “Roaring Twenties” A Culture of Optimism …
By end of 1920’s, majority of homes have electricity
Flappers
Impact of radio
Impact of automobile
Scopes Trial
Rise of K.K.K. &
Nativism

3. What does it mean to be an American?

4. Most Important Immigration Issues
Immigration’s effect on wages
Border security
“The Wall”
DACA participants
Pathway to citizenship
TPS – Temporary Protected Status Designation
There were big changes to U.S. immigration in the 1920’s!!

5. Read pages 491 and 492, from “Sacco and Vanzetti” to “The Ku Klux Klan in the Early 1900’s” (stop at heading)
(1) The evidence upon which Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted?
(2) Nativism?
(3) Reasons for backlash
against immigrants?
(4) Conflicting ideas about immigration?
(5) Quota system established by these two laws?

6. What is Nativism?
“Nativism” is a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants

7. Read pages 491 and 492, from “Sacco and Vanzetti” to “The Ku Klux Klan in the Early 1900’s” (stop at heading)
(1) The evidence upon which Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted?
(2) Nativism?
(3) Reasons for backlash
against immigrants?
(4) Conflicting ideas about immigration?
(5) Quota system established by these two laws?

8. ** Immigration Legislation During the Era …
1882 – Chinese Exclusion Act – banned Chinese immigration (1882 – 1943)
1917 – Immigration Act of 1917 – literacy tests placed upon immigrants for their own language

9. “Asiatic Barred Zone” - Immigration Act of 1917

10. ** Based upon 1890 immigration statistics.
Established a 2% quota max on immigrants from select areas of the world …
** Southeast Europe, Asia, Africa were disadvantaged
** Based upon 1890 immigration statistics.

11. 1890 is the “year of division”
Old – Northern Europeans: Ireland, Germany, England, and Scandinavian countries. Many were Protestant.
Before the Civil War (write this …)
1890 is the “year of division”
New – Southeastern Europeans, mainly from Italy, Greece, Turkey, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, as well as Canada and China, but also record numbers of Irish & Germans
By 1900 …
By 1920 …
“New” Immigrants were largely Catholic and Jewish
- Resisted complete “Americanization”

12. Ethnic Enclaves

13. What ideas do you see here?

14. What ideas do you see here?

15. What does it mean to be an American?

16. (1) Review the handouts on Immigration, and ask yourself, “What are the most interesting or important facts in the handouts?” (2) What questions do you have about the modern-day immigration debate?

17. Most Important Immigration Issues
Immigration’s effect on wages
Border security
“The Wall”
DACA participants
Pathway to citizenship
TPS – Temporary Protected Status Designation
There were big changes to U.S. immigration in the 1920’s!!

18. Video of Stephen Miller talking about the Statue of Liberty …

19. As a small-group, answer on a ½ sheet of notebook paper …
What does it mean to be an American?