Era 7 The Emergence of Modern America 1890 - 1930

NATIONAL STANDARDS / KEY TERM
CONNECTIONS / SAMPLE ACTIVITIES / MULTIMEDIA / WEBSITES

Standard 1

Progressivism and reform movements address the problems of the new industrial society
Standard 2
The Changing role of the U.S. In world affairs through World War I
Standard 3
How the U.S. changed from the end of World War I to the eve of the Great Depression
The Newark Public Schools
Social Studies Curriculum Guide

Additional Resources:
“The Americans”
McDougal-Littell

“Pathways to the Present”
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Key People

Matthew Henson
Daniel Hale Williams
Ida B Wells
Marcus Garvey
Richard Wright
Scott Joplin
Benjamin O Davis
Zora Neale Hurston
Alain Locke
James Reece Europe
Key Terms
Niagara Movement
Soldiers riot.
369th Infantry
Crisis
National Urban League
Plessy v. Ferguson(1896)
Great Migration
NAACP
Urban League
UNIA
Harlem Renaissance

Negritude

Pan Africanism
National Negro Business League
Key places
Brownsville, Texas
St LouisMissouri
Chicago 1919
Harlem, NY / Have students use the following website to research the top 10 African American owned businesses 1898-1928,1972-2002. Use a Venn diagram to compare/ contrast

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Have students role play a summit conference to illustrate the diversity of black leadership styles which emerged during this period.
REFERENCE:
WEB DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Integration
Accommodation
Separation
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Have students design a mural, power point display or web page featuring at least three aspects of the impact of the Harlem Renaissance (political, social, economic etc)
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Have students create an interactive map to show the migration of blacks of this period





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Pair students. Have each pair write a series of 3 letters to one another 1890, 1919, 1930 giving “eyewitness” accounts of changes in African American life 1890 – 1930. / Library of Congress/American Memory – interactive research activity
Film(s)
American Experience: Ida B. Wells - A Passion for Justice
Reconstruction & Segregation (1865-1910)
Release Year: 1996
Only the Ball was White
(1994)
Web Quest Harlem Renaissance
/ African American History 1900-1945

Black Baseball


Lynching in America


Race riots

World War I

Harlem Renaissance





African American Businesses





THE PLAINFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS` AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESOURCE GUIDE