My grandmother came of age in 1920! She was born in 1899, so she could never hide her age from us. We always knew. I wanted to know more about how it was to live in the Roaring Twenties:
Now go to the Big Fat Notebook of American History pages 355-362, do the questions on page 363 check them on page 364
This is also this website to get even more infomation: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-ushistory/chapter/the-roaring-twenties/
Questions:
What were the good things that happened during the 20's?
What were the bad things?
Did this affect your family?
Summary of the lesson:
Key Points
- The 1920s saw an explosion of industrial growth in the United States as World War I veterans returned to the labor force.
- Government and big business became more closely entwined during the postwar era under the successive Republican administrations of three presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.
- Facing high unemployment and inflation, President Warren Harding signed the Emergency Tariff and Forney-McCumber Tariff to reduce the national debt and taxes, protect the farming industry, and limit immigration.
- The 1920s saw two major literary movements: The Lost Generation, a group of U.S. expatriates who mostly settled in Paris, and the Harlem Renaissance, an African-American cultural awakening based in New York’s Harlem district.
- Radio, jazz music, and Hollywood films flourished as the popular entertainment of the era, while Prohibition and speakeasies helped fuel a criminal outbreak.
Key Terms
- Emergency Tariff of 1921: A temporary measure enacted on May 27 to ease the plight of farmers until a better economic solution could be put into place by the government.
- Harlem Renaissance: An African-American cultural movement spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
- The Lost Generation: Americans who came of age during World War I; refers specifically to a group of well-known expatriate writers including Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Homework:
You are a reporter for a magazine New York. Write an article about the employment situation in your community. Write the problems that happened after the Great War.
Lesson 2 of the Roaring Twenties
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Read in the Big Fat Notebook of American history pages 358-363
Answer the questions on page 364 Check your answers on page 365
Dress styles of the 1920 https://www.behance.net/gallery/68039345/1920s-of-Fashion
Homework:
You are a African American musician, tell why you want to go to Harlem, New York. What will you find there during the 1920's?
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