1. Utah Enters a New Century Chapter 12: Utah Life Reflects the Nation

2. Bell Activity  Your word is “smelter” then work on your study guide.  Today’s music is from 1910-1919 and features a new style of music: Ragtime. This music has a fast beat than folk music, a jagged rhythm, and is an ancestor of all fast paced music today.  Ragtime started when folk music from Europe was mixed with beats and rhythms from Africa.  This was rebellious teenage music for its time! If you were a teenager back in the early 1900s, you probably would have loved it and your parents would have hated it! Like Dubstep, but in 1900!  This was rebellious teenage music for its time! If you were a teenager back in the early 1900s, you probably would have loved it and your parents would have hated it! Like Dubstep, but in 1900!  Most of these songs are fun and optimistic, but others feature social concerns of the day, especially families/children leaving home to find work in big cities. ‘Come Josephine in my Flying Machine’ expresses a sense of wonder at the new technology from this era.  Where should your backpack be?

3. Does your work look something like this? Word: smelter My Understanding: 4 3 2 1 Definition:Draw a picture of it: Sentence: Synonym/ Example: Antonym/Non- Example:

4. Does your work look something like this? Word: smelter My Understanding: 4 3 2 1 Definition: a place where metal is Draw a picture of it: separated from rock, usually by heat. Sentence: The smelter removed the impurities from the gold. Synonym/ Example: refinery Antonym/Non- Example: compactor

5. Today we will learn…  History Objective – We will be able to describe how life in Utah reflected the events that was happening in the rest of the nation in the 20 th Century.  Language Objective – We will read for important information in our books and use it to answer questions on our paper and our study guide.  Behavior Objective – Work Ethic: Stay focused on the assignment and finish it in the given time.

6.  World War I – 1914-1919  The Great Depression – (1920s)1929-1939  World War II – 1939-1945

7. Electricity & Technology Makes Life Easier …sort of.  Businesses are often the first to use new technology, especially in factories and mining.  Electric trains became more common throughout the state.  There was even an electric streetcar system in Cache Valley.  By the 1920s, buses and cars began replacing streetcars.  By 1900 there were only about 20 cars in Utah. By 1909, there were about 873 cars and trucks.  Eventually, Utah and the U.S. become a ‘car culture’ and many public transit systems are dismantled (and then reassembled at great expense when gasoline prices and environmental concerns make cars troublesome).

8. Electricity & Technology Makes Life Easier…sort of  Utahns saw an airplane flight in 1910, seven years after the Wright brothers’ first flight in North Carolina.  “Barn-storming” became a popular form of entertainment.  In 1896, Utah was just beginning to use electricity, but it gradually began to be more common in homes and businesses.  In 1913, Utah began to see lights become part of homes and by the 1930s many household started to use gadgets that are common today: washing machines, vacuums, irons, etc.

9. Inventions for the New Century Invention First Used in the US First Used in Utah Automobiles19001900 Airplanes19031927 Radios19061922 Movies (silent) 19051905

10. War in Europe  Tensions in Europe between the major powers of the day eventually escalated into outright war.  The war went on for several years before the United States was drawn into the conflict.  When German submarines, called U-boats, had fired torpedoes on unarmed American merchant ships.  America and Utah entered the war when U.S. President Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war in 1917.

11. The “Great War”  Utah men volunteered to help fight in the “war to end all wars”.  The mines that became Kennecott produced copper and other minerals to supply guns and ammunition.  Utah inventor John Browning from Ogden developed the first automatic machine fun purchased by the U.S. government.  Utah also helped to supply food to troops in Europe and relieve a famine that was causing the people of Europe to starve.  Organizations like the LDS Relief Society and other church groups in Utah were asked by the federal government to donate wheat to ship over seas.  Finally, on November 11, 1918 at 11 o’clock the guns in Europe fell silent. The war was over.  Over 30 million people had died.