1. USA
Choose 3 questions which you cannot answer right now (or find difficult to answer).
Why did the USA follow a policy of isolationism after WW1?
How did the Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922 help the USA achieve prosperity?
How did new industries and methods change American society?
Why did the USA achieve prosperity in the 1920’s?
Why did agriculture not share in the boom?
What problems would an immigrant have faced in 1920’s America?
How did the experiences of Black Americans differ to the rest of society in the 20’s?
Why was prohibition put in place?
Why was prohibition ended?
What did young people do for fun in the 1920’s?
What caused the Wall St Crash?
What were the effects of the Wall St Crash?
Some quizzes to test your knowledge:
Key words quiz.
Key events quiz.
Key people quiz.

2. Key Questions How and why did the USA achieve prosperity?
How far was the USA a divided society?
Why did the Stock Exchange collapse in 1929?

3. Mood of American people
1) Task: Copy down this diagram and then match the statements below to the correct heading.
HINT: Use pages of the AQA textbook to help you if you are stuck.
Wilson’s own actions
Why did the USA follow a policy of isolationism after WW1?
Republican policies
Mood of American people
100,000 Americans had lost their life in WW1, many thought this was far too high.
Wilson’s bad health (3 strokes) knocked out the biggest campaigner for involvement with Europe.
Wilson had broken his own policy of anti-war when he had involved the USA in WW1.
Republicans promised US people a return to “normality” (the way things had been before the war) if they got elected.
Many felt that US involvement in WW1 had been a direct result of having anything to do with Europe.
Republicans believed further entanglement with European countries would eventually destroy the USA.
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4. A Republican newspaper cartoon from 1919.
Q: What does this source suggest about Republican policies in 1919? (4 marks).
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5. Extension: Can you think of any downsides to this tariff?
2) Task: Use pages 57 of the AQA textbook to sort the people below into two groups: those who benefitted from the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, and those who didn’t benefit. For each person, explain why you have put them in that group.
Extension: Can you think of any downsides to this tariff?
Normally, policies of economic protection don’t include farm products, which means we loose out. I wonder what this new tariff will be like?
I make all of my goods out of American materials, and only sell them in the USA.
I sell my products to the USA, but I make them in my native country of France.
French businessman
American farmer
American businessman
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6. 3) Task: Read pages 58-61 of the AQA textbook
3) Task: Read pages of the AQA textbook. Link each picture with what it represents.
Extension: For each method, use the textbook to note down supporting details/facts.
Americans could buy goods even when they didn’t have the money, and slowly pay it back over a period of time.
Big industries used new marketing techniques to convince people to buy goods, using posters and radio.
Huge amounts of goods were produced by using moving production lines where every worker had a small job to do.
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7. New industries and methods Better quality of life for Americans
4) Task: Copy down this diagram and explain the links between the boxes to show why the USA achieved prosperity in the 1920’s (use pages if you are stuck).
Extension: How fragile was US prosperity? Why?
New industries and methods
Better quality of life for Americans
Republicans getting in power
Isolationism
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8. Example: This “for sale” sign refers to...
5) Task: Annotate and explain the different features of this American cartoon from the 1920’s. Read page 63 of the textbook if you are stuck.
Extension: What does this source suggest about the experience of American farmers in the 1920’s (4 marks).
Example: This “for sale” sign refers to...
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9. 6) Task: Use page 64 of the AQA textbooks to create a timeline of immigration laws in the USA.
Extension: What other problems/prejudices do you think immigrants would have faced when arriving in the USA?
Before 1914
1925
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10. Sharecropping/Working conditions
7) Task: Explain how each of the things below affected the lives of Black Americans in the 1920’s.
HINT: Use pages of the AQA textbook to help you if you are stuck.
Jim Crow laws
KKK
Sharecropping/Working conditions
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11. Arguments for prohibition: Actual effects of prohibition:
9) Task: Use pages of the AQA textbooks to see if these popular arguments for prohibition were proved right by filling out this table.
Extension: Was the USA better or worse off after Prohibition was put in place? Why?
Arguments for prohibition:
Actual effects of prohibition:
It would create a more moral society.
US industry would benefit from workers being sober, and more money would go to US businesses.
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12. What sort of things would she have been interested in?
10) Task: Read pages 61, 62 and 71 to fill out the boxes around the picture.
Extension: Why do you think flappers became a symbol of the USA in the 1920’s?
What sort of things would she have been interested in?
How would older people react to her?
What would this girl have done for entertainment?
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13. Extension: Rank them in order of importance.
11) Task: Use pages to make bullet-points on 4 post-its under these headings explaining how they led to the Wall St Crash.
Extension: Rank them in order of importance.
Overproduction -
Unequal distribution of wealth -
Financial Speculation -
Isolationism -
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14. Connect 4:
The Rules:
You must capture enough squares to be able to go from left to right or up or down.
Your opponent can block you by capturing squares of their own, but you can go around them (not diagonally).
To capture a square, you need to choose it and define the key word in the box.
Volstead act
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15. Fordney- McCumber Tariff
Volstead act
Flapper
Jim Crow Laws
Depression
Prohibition
Speakeasy
Mass Production
Hire Purchase
Democrat
Congress
Isolationism
Agriculture
Segregation
Wall Street
Bootlegger
Fordney- McCumber Tariff
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16. HEADLINERS The roaring twenties Start
You must guess the headline from the first letter of each word below it.
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17. A.B.D

18. A Becomes Dry

19. H.F.C.P

20. Henry Ford Changes Production

21. W.S.C

22. Wall Street Crashes

23. A.T.R.H

24. American Troops Return Home
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25. Who Am I?
I’m a famous gangster who, like many others, made my money by supplying people with Alcohol during prohibition.
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26. What am I?
I’m part of a group who go out dancing and smoke in public. Many middle class American girls are part of this group.
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27. Who am I?
I was president of the USA at the end of WW1, but afterwards, I toured the country trying to get re-elected and encouraged the USA to be involved with Europe.
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28. Who am I?
I was president in I used the term: “a return to normalcy” to sum up my political policies. I am a Republican.
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29. And finally!.....Explain the links between the boxes.
Unemployment
Reduction in production
Economic Hardship
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Slow down in industry
Slower buying
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30. How useful is this source for studying why the USA fell into an economic depression after the Wall St Crash? (10 marks).
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