| Lesson 1 - The Politics of the 1920s | Lesson 2 - A Growing Economy | Lesson 3 - A Clash of Values | Lesson 4 - Cultural Innovations | Lesson 5 - African American Culture and Politics |
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Harding's secretary of interior, Albert B. Fall, secretly allowing private interests (Oil companies) to lease land containing U.S Navy oil reserves for personal interests.
What caused the Teapot Dome scandal? (CE)
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1) The car industry was booming with many Americans buying cars
2) The airplane industry was first introduced having a airline service first starting in 1925 3) The radio industry also developed a special circuit to allow to get long-range radio service
How did new industries change the lives of Americans in the 1920’s? (CC)
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Why did nativism increase after WWI was over? (CE)
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A soulful style of music (Soul).
One of our vocab word is "Blues" Blues music still exists and is listened to today.
What is the definition of Blues music? (CC)* |
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An end to progressive experimentation, an end to high taxes on the wealthy, and an end to government intervention in the economy. So overall all this meant is an end to economic controls imposed during WWI.
What does a ‘return to normalcy’ mean to P Harding? (TTE)
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Higher tariffs, they produced more than needed so it ended up selling for less, and they also loss money from buying land during the war
What three reasons caused farmers to miss out on the prosperity of the 1920’s? (CE)
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Louis Armstrong
Which who’s who is the inventor of Jazz and swing? (TP)*
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President Warren Harding
In the 1970's there was major corruption in President Richard Nixon's administration called The Watergate Scandal
What president in the 1920's had a scandal that caused corruption in his administration? (UTP)* |
Henry Ford
Which who’s who invented the Model T? (TP)*
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Why did many Americans have more time for entertainment, and how did they spend their time? (CE)
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
What organization in the 1920's fought against racism for African Americans? (TP)*
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1) Didn't want to be in European Wars
2) Refusing to approve the Treaty of Versailles 3) Imposed to joining the League of Nations
What were some ways the U.S. showed signs of isolationism after WWI? (CC)
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African Americans, Native Americans, and most farmers/factory workers from the Deep South
What groups of Americans had been left out of the good economic times of the 1920’s? (TTE)
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What is the effect of this 1924 law on Catholic and
Jewish immigration? (TP) |
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Why
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The Great Migration
What was the name of the movement of over 500,000 African Americans fleeing to the North? (CE)*
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It restored economic growth and prosperity by getting the government out of the "WWI economy".
Since the Harding administration put an end to economic controls imposed during WWI, How did it affect our economy? (TP)*
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Edwin Armstrong
Who invented a special circuit that made it practical to transmit sound via long-range radio? (CE)*
Hint : This person has the same last name as one of our who's who |
What is one reason the 1924 National Origins law
allowed non-white natives of the Western Hemisphere to immigrate in large numbers? (TTE) |
Marcus Garvey
Who organized the trans-Atlantic Black Star Line to help resettle people in Africa "back to Africa" movement that made African Americans view themselves with great pride? (TTE)*
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