APUSH Assignment Sheet

The Roaring 20s- Unit 8 Chapter 24

Week ending- April 02, 2010

ASSIGNMENTS ARE DUE ON MONDAY, APRIL 5

A. READINGS/RESOURCES http://mr.stack.tripod.com

1. Progressive Era- WWI Test on Thursday, 0dd Friday even
2. Goldfield Ch. 24 and terms– outline and/or read and outline online link
Outline and video questions are due Monday, April – Check front page for video and questions posting / 3, Online Textbook- http://uccpbank.k12hsn.org/courses/APUSHistoryII/course%20files/multimedia/lesson58/lessonp_uccp_ap.html
4, Video and questions- will be posted on front page by Wednesday, March 31
5.Crossroads Essay “Boom and Bust”
6. Note Cards to look up terms--> 1151-1200
7. Download exam study guide for Progressive Era- WWI

B.  BRAINSTORM LISTS (Historical Definitions)

Roaring Twenties

1. Palmer Raids/Red Scare
2. Sacco and Vanzetti
3. Immigration restriction
4. Ku Klux Klan
5. Volstead Act/Crime
6. Monkey Trial (Scopes Trial) / 7. Henry Ford/Model T
8. Flappers
9. Mass Consumption/Radio
10. Harlem Renaissance
11. Lost Generation
12. Lindbergh/heroes / 13. Return to “Normalcy”
14. Tea Pot Dome Scandal
15. Washington Disarmament/Naval Treaties
16. Kellogg-Briand Pact

C. OBJECTIVES/THEMES/FOCUS QUESTIONS

1.  GROWTH OF NATIVISM AND INTOLERANCE

a)  Nativism---Red Scare, Sacco & Vanzetti Trial, Immigration Restriction

b)  Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan

c)  Fundamentalism---Scopes Trial,

d)  Prohibition—18th Amendment,Impact, Al Capone/Organized Crime, Speakeasies

2.  THE “ROARING TWENTIES” AND CULTURE

a)  Mass Communication/Consumption---Radio, Movies, Advertising, Automobile, Sports

b)  Arts---“Jazz Age”, Literature/”Lost Generation”, Harlem Renaissance

c)  The “New” Woman/Morality---Flapper, Rights

d)  Science and Technology---Darwin, Physics/Einstein, Medicine

e)  African-Americans---“Back to Africa” Movement

3.  POLITICS OF THE 1920s

a)  Harding---Election of 1920,“Normalcy”, Scandals

b)  Coolidge/Economy---Election of 1924, New Economy, Business/Labor/Farmers

c)  Return to Isolationism---Washington Naval Conf., Kellogg-Briand Pact, Reparations

d) Hoover---Election of 1928, “Crash” & Depression, Efforts at Recovery

·  Why is the decade of the twenties called “New Era”?

·  What was at issue in the cultural clash that characterized the 1920s?

·  Who were the contestants in the struggle?

·  What trends in national politics reflected the era’s tensions?