1920s

The Essential Questions:

 * What is a "modern culture" and how did the decade of the 1920s reflect its meaning?
 * What happens when traditional and modern cultures interact?
 * How can economic excesses contribute to harship and instability in America?
 * What is the proper role of the government in people's lives?
 * Did the New Deal move America closer or furher away from its founding ideals?

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 * Chapters 12 and 13 Vocabulary Activities**
 * 12.1 Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues**
 * 12.2 The Harding Presidency**
 * 12.3 The Business of America**
 * Chapter 12 Politics of the Roaring Twenties**
 * 13.1 Changing Ways of Life**
 * 13.2 The Twenties Woman**
 * 13.3 Education and Popular Culture**
 * 13.4 The Harlem Renaissance**
 * Chapter 13 The Roaring Life of the 1920s**

Artwork:
//An Idyll of the Deep South,// from //Aspects of Negro Life series Aaron Douglas// Fetiche et Fleurs (Fetish and Flowers) Palmer Hayden //Dress Rehearsal #1// James VanDerZee

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 * Old Study Guide Surveys for the 1920s**
 * Chapter 12: Politics in the Roaring Twenties **
 * Chapter 13: The Roaring Life of the 1920s **

=Podcasts of the 1920s=

Kingwood College Library American Cultural History http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade20.html The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The 1920s http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module16/index.html The Roaring Twenties Hitchhiker’s Guide http://cvip.fresno.com/~jsh33/roar.html History of the UMWA http://www.umwa.org/history/hist1.shtml History of Aviation http://www.utdallas.edu/library/special/aviation/ History of Al Capone http://www.chicagohistory.org/history/capone.html Temperance and Prohibition http://prohibition.osu.edu/ The Clash of Cultures (in the 1910s and 1920s) http://history.osu.edu/Projects/Clash/default.htm Economic History of the Roaring Twenties http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_roaring13.html The USA in the 1920s http://www.1920s.net/namerica/usa/usa.htm Al Capone http://www.crimelibrary.com/capone/caponemain.htm The Roaring Twenties http://alephnull.net/20s/index.html The Jazz Age Page http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/Jazzhome.htm Sacco and Vanzetti Case http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sacvan.html Sacco and Vanzetti Trial http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/oj/frankff.htm The Scopes “Monkey Trial” http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/inherit/1925home.html A Battle of Wills - Scopes Monkey Trial http://www.courttv.com/archive/greatesttrials/scopes/battle.html American Experience - Monkey Trial http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/index.html Evolution Library http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/index.html Tennessee vs. John Scopes http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm The Evolution Controversy - Constitutional Conflicts http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/evolution.htm St. Valentine’s Day Massacre http://www.mysterynet.com/vdaymassacre/ Technology of the 1920s http://www.100.nist.gov/twenties.htm History of the Miss America Pageant http://www.missamerica.org/ Bernice Bobs Her Hair http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/bernice/index.html Marcus Garvey http://www.isop.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/ Flappers http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa022201a.htm General Roaring Twenties History http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/america/roaringtwenties.htm Flapper Culture http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/index.html Temperance and Prohibition http://prohibition.osu.edu/ The Ohio Dry Campaign (1918) http://history.osu.edu/Projects/ohiodry/Default.htm
 * Useful Web Links**