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Objectives To understand such issues as Prohibition, the changing role of women, and the influence of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Section 1: Changing Ways of Life
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Journal What differences exist today between urban (city) and rural lifestyles?
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Rural and Urban Differences 1922-1929 – 2 million people left the farm for the city every year Big cities: New York City (5.6 million), Chicago (3 million), Philadelphia (2 million)
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Rural and Urban Differences Cities Competition Change More reading Discussions about science and social ideas Various backgrounds Drinking, casual dating, gambling Farms Slow paced Live close to family and friends Strict morals
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Prohibition 18 th Amendment – manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol is illegal Rural South and West, Protestants, Women’s Christian Temperance Union After WWI Americans were tired of making sacrifices Volstead Act established a Prohibition Bureau to enforce the law -> underfunded -> difficult to monitor all the roads and coastline
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Speakeasies Underground/hidden saloons
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Bootleggers People who smuggled alcohol into the U.S.
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Organized Crime Chicago’s Al Capone was in control of 10,000 speakeasies $60 million a year 1933 – 21 st Amendment repeals Prohibition
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Central Question Why was the 18 th Amendment passed?
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Discussion 1. What problems did people see in society at the turn of the century? 2. Why did they think Prohibition would solve these problems? 3. What strategies/evidence did temperance advocates use to convince people to support Prohibition?
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Video Clips http://www.history.com/topics/al- capone/videos#st-valentines-day-massacre http://www.history.com/topics/al- capone/videos#st-valentines-day-massacre The Untouchables
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Journal Should America continue to promote fascination with Capone through museums, memorabilia, and tours of gangland sites?
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Rumrunners, Moonshiners, Bootleggers DVD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4wl9n- Gmsw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4wl9n- Gmsw
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Journal What differences exist between urban (city) and rural (small town) lifestyles in the 1920s?
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Science and Religion Clash Fundamentalist religious groups vs. secular (nonreligious) thinkers Issue = validity (strength/truth) of certain scientific discoveries
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Science and Religion Clash Waves of people become very religious Question authority and elite Passionate speakers feel a direct connection with God The First Great Awakening (1740s-1750s) The Second Great Awakening (1820s-1840s)
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Science and Religion Clash Fundamentalism (1920s) Protestant movement Belief in literal translation of the Bible – all stories in the Bible are true Against the sins of modern life Against Darwin’s theory of evolution Preachers in the South and West lead religious revivals Prohibit the teaching of evolution
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The Scopes Trial John T. Scopes – biology teacher from Dayton, Tenn. who challenges the Butler Act American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hires Clarence Darrow to defend him William Jennings Bryan = prosecutor
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Science and Religion Clash Why did people care about the Butler Act? Textbook – A Civic Biology Go to the back of the Guiding Questions
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http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/scopestri al/ http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/scopestri al/
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Why did people care about the Butler Act?
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Discussion 1. Who supported the Butler Act? What were their reasons? 2. Who opposed the Butler Act? What were their reasons? 3. How did Reverend Straton view the big cities? How did the NY Times view Dayton, Tennessee? Why did those views play a role in the Scopes Trial? 4. In what ways did the historical context of the 1920s affect the battle over the Butler Act? 5. How was the Scopes Trial more than just a simple debate between evolution and creationism?
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Science and Religion Clash Fundamentalism – Protestant movement based on a literal interpretation of the Bible All stories in the Bible are true Reject theory of evolution = Charles Darwin’s theory that plant and animal species have changed over millions of years Evolution from apes vs. Bible creationism Wanted laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution
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The Scopes Trial March 1925 Tennessee passes law outlawing the teaching of evolution American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) defends John T. Scopes, a young biology public school teacher who tells students humans have evolved Clarence Darrow defends Scopes William Jennings Bryan prosecutes Scopes is found guilty and law stays in effect
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Now and Then 1999 – Kansas State School Board votes to eliminate the teaching of evolution Supreme Court says evolution must only be taught as scientific fact + creationism may not be taught as scientific fact (in public schools)
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Assignment 1. Issue -> Legislation -> Outcome Issue = prohibition (illegal to sell or manufacture) Issue = teaching evolution 2. Explain how urbanization created a new way of life that often clashed with the values of traditional rural society. 3. Describe the controversy over the role of science and religion in American education and society in the 1920s.
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Section 2: The Twenties Woman
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Journal How is the music you listen to different than the music your parents listen to? Do you think your attitude towards life is different than your parents?
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Young Women Change the Rules A rebellious, pleasure-loving atmosphere of the 1920s independence 19 th Amendment – women suffrage Flapper = a free young woman who embraced the new fashions and current urban attitudes Shorter dresses, smoked cigarettes, talked about sex, danced Marriage = more of an equal partnership
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Dancing Fox trot, camel walk, tango, Charleston, shimmy, dance marathon https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=IcemYjTd vZ8 https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=IcemYjTd vZ8
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Flappers were like women of today because ______________ and they were unlike women of today because __________________________.
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Young Woman Change the Rules Still influenced by tradition/church Casual dating becomes more accepted The Double Standard = a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women
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Women Shed Old Roles at Home and at Work How were women freed from some household chores?
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Women Shed Old Roles at Home and at Work Time saving appliances Business growth leads to jobs for millions of women
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Women Shed Old Roles at Home and at Work Women replaced by men after WWI “women’s professions” = teachers, nurses, librarians Big business = typists, filing, assembly line workers Few become managers Earn less than men Men felt women should stay at home (job competition)
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The Changing Family
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Margaret Sanger opens birth control clinic (1916) Women have more time for children and reading Marriages are based more on romance Children are in school More social time, peer pressure, rebellious children
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Double standard refers to stricter _________ standards for ____________ than for ___________ in the 1920s. What is your opinion of the double standard? Women had new roles in the 1920s such as __________________.
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Assignment 1. How do you think women’s lives changed most dramatically in the 1920s? Think about families and jobs. 2. Do you think that some women of this decade made real progress towards equality? Think about double standard, the flapper’s style and image, changing views of marriage
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Section 3: Education and Popular Culture
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Schools and the Mass Media Shape Culture 1914 = 1 million American students in high school -> college-bound 1926 = 4 million -> college-bound and vocational training Before WWI – a million immigrants a year come to America
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Expanding News Coverage Literacy increased Newspapers printed sensational stories
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Radio By 1930 – 40 percent of American households had radios News and sporting events
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America Chases New Heroes More money + more leisure time = money for entertainment
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Sports Heroes
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Charles Lindberg First non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic
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Entertainment and the Arts “Talkies” doubled the movie attendance The Jazz Singer 1927 Disney’s Steamboat Willie 1928 Video clip Georgia O’Keeffe
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Writers of the 1920s Sinclair Lewis F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby “Jazz Age” Edna St. Vincent Millay Ernest Hemmingway The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms Many denounced war Addressed political and social topics Negative side of the freedom of the 1920s
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Section 4: The Harlem Renaissance Journal What contributions have African Americans made in our society? Think about literature, art, music, politics, acting, etc.
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African American Voices in the 1920s Great Migration (1910-1920) – African Americans from the South migrate to northern cities Push factors Pull factors
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African American Voices in the 1920s 25 urban race riots in 1919 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) – protest racial violence James Weldon Johnson fights for anti- lynching laws
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During the Great _______________ African Americans moved from the ________ to the __________. The NAACP fought to improve the lives of __________________ by __________________________.
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Marcus Garvey African Americans face daily threats and discrimination Marcus Garvey - African Americans should build a separate society Spreads a radical message of black pride 1914 – Garvey establishes the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
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Marcus Garvey Promotes black businesses Encourages African Americans to return to Africa
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Marcus Garvey’s goals were different than the NAACP’s because _____________________.
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The Harlem Renaissance Harlem, NYC = world’s largest black urban community A literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture
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African American Writers Resist prejudice/discrimination The struggle of living in the black ghetto Take pride in surviving slavery through creativity and strength
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Performers Paul Robeson performs in front of large white audiences in NYC
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Jazz Jazz is born in the early 1900s in New Orleans Musicians blend instrumental ragtime with vocal blues Louis Armstrong helps spread jazz to large cities Most popular music for dancing Played at exotic nightclubs like the Cotton Club https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=GohBkHaHap8 https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=GohBkHaHap8
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The results of the migration of African Americans to northern cities in the 1920s include ____________________. Examples of the artistic activity that became known as the Harlem Renaissance include ________________________.
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Assignment Page 452-457 Guided Reading
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The Cotton Club 1. Describe the atmosphere of the Cotton Club. 2. Who owned the club? 3. Where was it located? 4. What did people do at the Cotton Club? 5. Describe how black and white people interacted there.
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Group Review Student #1 = Questions 1-5 Student #2 = Questions 6-10 Student #3 = Questions 11-15 15 minutes for research 10 minutes per student to share responses Pages 434-457
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