1. Points to Emphasize: (1) Completing homework -(a) Homework calendar
(2) Taking ownership for one’s learning
(b) Taking notes - “Three C’s”
(c) Assigned reading & “pop” quizzes - (d) Late work
(e) When entering classroom (Tidiness) - Fire drill evac.
(3) Rules / Procedures
(f) Bathroom policy - (g) Food
No hats - (h) Technology / ear buds
End of Class
(i) Conversation while teacher is talking (Noise)
(j) Excused absences & make-up work

2. Malala Yousafzai

3. Why History?
What lessons does it teach?
What’s interesting about it?

4. Great Men and Women “Inspiration”
Abraham Lincoln
Rosa Parks

5. We love to quote the famous people of history!!!
- “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
Albert Einstein

6. Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU)
Recent study, published in Inside Higher Ed
Found that, “in a number of key areas (oral communication, written communication, critical thinking, being creative) … employers do not believe students are well-prepared for the workforce.”
“And these are the kinds of qualities that many colleges say are hallmarks of a liberal education.”

7. Impact of Wars How did various wars impact life in the United States?
1775
1945
* Mexican American War (1846 – 1848)
* WWI (1914 – 1918)
* American Revolution (1775 – 1783)
* War of 1812 (1812 – 1815)
* WWII (1939 – 1945)
* Civil War (1861 – 1865)

9. Everything has a history!!!!

10. What happens to “Tax Rates” in the “Roaring Twenties?”

11. Politics of the 1920’s Warren G. Harding, 1921 - 1923
Ted Cruz discussing “supply-side economics”
“Supply Side Economics”
Andrew Mellon’s goals at Secretary of the Treasury
“Return to Normalcy” (1921)
“Ohio Gang” – Daugherty, Forbes, etc.
“Teapot Dome” Scandal (1922)
President Harding dies (1923)
Calvin Coolidge,
Teapot Dome Oilfield

12. Calvin Coolidge, 1923 - 1929 NcNary-Haugen Bill (1926)
1927 Mississippi Flood
“Silent Cal”
Coolidge and the Black Hills

13. 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 …

14. “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

15. The “Flapper”
1925
1926
Scalloped hemline was a gradual way of making the hemline look shorter.

16. “Roaring Twenties” A Culture of Optimism … Rise of Advertising
Credit culture / Installment Plan
By 1927, 75% of all household goods were purchased on credit

17. Reading the handout, answer the following questions in your notebooks:
(1) Why were farmers optimistic during WWI, and how did this lead to poor economic decisions by farmers?
(2) How were the Roaring Twenties unkind to rural America?
(3) Why were rural banks allowed to fail?

18. 1920’s – An Era of Optimism
(1) Credit culture of America in the 1920’s
(2) “Buying on the Margin” – risky investments in stock market speculation
(3) Farmers over-invest, taking out loans for more land and farm equipment
(4) Overproduction in farm products and consumer goods

19. Problems with the Farms and Rural and Western Banks (fill in your guided notes)
[1] During WWI, prices are good
[2] Farmers invest
[3] Overproduction
[4] Crop prices drop in 1920 & 1921
[5] Hard time paying mortgages and loans
[6] Farms become foreclosed
[7] Rural banks fail

20. Read pages. 475-481, Ch. 12, Sec. 4, “The Postwar Economy Boom”