1. The Great Depression and the Americas (1929 – 39)
Objective 3.1: Examine the decade of the 1920s in the USA to consider how healthy its economy and political system was

2. Warm-Up: Assessing Prior Knowledge
What do you know about the Roaring (19)20s?
Where does your knowledge come from?
Which conceptions do you think are accurate? Inaccurate?

3. The Roaring ‘20s
If someone says it better, let them say it… CRASH COURSE #32
While watching, complete the fill-in notes!

4. Group Work: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties”, 1919 – 1929
Read the prologue on pg. 274 of American Spirit
Read your assigned section A. - D.
Think about and discuss the following questions…
What was the main purpose behind the assigned section?
How was this section’s segment(s) of the population affected by the “Roaring Twenties”
Complete the given assignment in relation to the assigned section

5. The Revival of Antiforeignism
Why did antiforeignism flare up so viciously in the postwar years?
Could the United States have continued indefinitely to allow unlimited immigration?
Were Sacco and Vanzetti villains or scapegoats?

6. The Reconstituted Ku Klux Klan
What was the relation of the revived Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s to the original Klan of the Reconstruction days?
Why does the United States periodically spawn violent vigilante-style movements?

7. The Wets versus the drys
Was prohibition a typically American “experiment”?
Under what circumstances does the government have a right to regulate personal behavior, such as drinking alcoholic beverages or using narcotic drugs?

8. New goals for women
In what ways was the urbanized economic order of the 1920s a new frontier for women?
How did the spreading practice of birth control reflect changes in the values and styles of family life?
Does an emphasis on gender difference or on gender equality form a better basis for public policy?

9. Quickwrite Introductory paragraph…
How prosperous was the USA in the 1920s?

10. What previous knowledge was confirmed in the text?
Warm-Up: Partner Review—Only Yesterday (XII. Big Bull Market) by Frederick Lewis Allen
What previous knowledge was confirmed in the text?
What new knowledge was put forth in the text?
What surprised you about the text?
What confused you about the text?

11. The Century: America’s Time Boom to Bust (1920 – 1929)
While watching consider the given guiding questions (treat them as notes) and the following BIG QUESTION…
What challenges are presented to the commonly-held notions of the Roaring ‘20s?

12. Group Work: The Twenties at Bay
Purpose: to challenge the commonly-held notion that the era of Fords and Flappers was simply fluff and nonsense
Objective: to research a particular area of the ’20s and reach a consensus of its lasting significance with supporting evidence
Assessment: brief presentation of your group’s findings

13. Group Work: The Twenties at Bay
Area Questions
Politics and Government—Were the twenties a retreat from Progressivism or an extension of reform?
Economics—The twenties: A business person’s paradise or an economic dirge?
Cultural clashes—Was this an age of unlawful protest or legal repression?
Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs—Are the twenties best remembered as a period of isolation or one of internationalism?
Mass Culture—Was the so-called “Jazz Age” characterized as carefree or insecure?

14. Group Work: The Twenties at Bay
Politics and Government—Were the twenties a retreat from Progressivism or an extension of reform?

15. Group Work: The Twenties at Bay
Economics—The twenties: A business person’s paradise or an economic dirge?

16. Group Work: The Twenties at Bay
Cultural clashes—Was this an age of unlawful protest or legal repression?

17. Group Work: The Twenties at Bay
Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs—Are the twenties best remembered as a period of isolation or one of internationalism?

18. Group Work: The Twenties at Bay
Mass Culture—Was the so-called “Jazz Age” characterized as carefree or insecure?

19. Quickwrite Write a thesis for the following prompt…
“Seldom has a generation given so little of permanent value and so much that was troublesome for the future.” Assess the validity of this statement.