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ISN L 61

ISN L 61. You are going to hear two pieces of music, one from the 1920s and one from the 1930s. Create a T-Chart recording impressions that the music brings to your mind. Page 61. Objective: To understand the tensions in the United States in the years following World War I EQ:.

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ISN L 61

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  1. ISN L 61 • You are going to hear two pieces of music, one from the 1920s and one from the 1930s. Create a T-Chart recording impressions that the music brings to your mind.

  2. Page 61 Objective: To understand the tensions in the United States in the years following World War I EQ:

  3. Cornell NotesPage 62 • Get out three sheets of paper • Prepare them for Cornel Notes • Title them: Tensions of the 1920s

  4. Essay Due Please take a handout. Please get your portfolio from your workfile. Place the handout in the inside front pocket of your portfolio. Place your rubric, with your name on it, behind your first portfolio entry. Place your essay behind your rubric. Be sure to keep your portfolio neat, this is an example of your best work.

  5. Tensions of the 1920s

  6. Postwar Economic Downturn Think/pair/share Think. Look. What are some level one observations (facts)? Pair up. Discuss your level one observations Share. Share with the class. Think. Look. What are some level two observations (inferences)? Pair up. Discuss your level two observations Share. Share with the class

  7. After WWI US economy dropped Soldiers returned home from war found factories closed Women pushed out of their jobs Immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe lost jobs

  8. The Great Migration • African Americans hit hard • During the war they moved north for industrial jobs • After the war factories closed • They lost their jobs

  9. Competition for Jobs • Class and racial tensions • Workers went on strikes • White supremacy groups like the KKK harassed members of minority groups • Religious fundamentalists argued with scientists over teaching of evolution • Government plagued with corruption and political scandals

  10. Tension: Political Scandals • Look at this political cartoon • Discuss with your partner : What is the artist of this political cartoon trying to say?

  11. President Harding, early 1920s “Worst president in history” Cabinet very corrupt Teapot Dome Scandal- Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall leased U.S. Navy’s oil reserves for a bribe

  12. Tension: Labor Unrest Think/pair/share Think. Look. What are some level one observations (facts)? Pair up. Discuss your level one observations Share. Share with the class. Think. Look. What are some level two observations (inferences)? Pair up. Discuss your level two observations Share. Share with the class

  13. 1920, 4 million workers held 3600 strikes Protested: wage cuts, long hours, no overtime pay Strikers faced opposition from companies, government and the public Labor linked to Anti-Communist fears Workers- Immigrants- Russians- Russian Revolution (1917) Communist

  14. FEAR that recent immigrants from Russia, who were many of the workers, who were often striking were out to stage a Communist revolution

  15. Tension: Radicals and Bombs Think/pair/share Think. Look. What are some level one observations (facts)? Pair up. Discuss your level one observations Share. Share with the class. Think. Look. What are some level two observations (inferences)? Pair up. Discuss your level two observations Share. Share with the class

  16. Some Americans were Communists but most were peaceful and law-abiding Radicals: Communists, socialists, anarchists, pacifists Most American Communists were: American-born, upper-middle-class intellectuals, not Russian immigrant workers

  17. Bombings- small numbers, mostly anarchists • Wall Street • Home of A. Mitchell Palmer • Attorney General of the United States

  18. Tension: The Red Scare • Look at this political cartoon • Discuss with your partner : What is the artist of this political cartoon trying to say?

  19. Palmer got Congress to investigate the bombings “Palmer Raids” arrested 4,000 – 10,000 radicals and jailed them, some for many months Most immigrants were not radicals but Americans became very suspicious of all immigrants

  20. Anti-Immigration Laws • Legislation to limit immigration • 1921 Johnson Act • 1924 National Origins Act • Result: immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe stopped

  21. American Civil Liberties Union ACLU • Founded to support the rights of individuals and minorities

  22. Tension: Sacco and Vanzetti Trial Think/pair/share Think. Look. What are some level one observations (facts)? Pair up. Discuss your level one observations Share. Share with the class. Think. Look. What are some level two observations (inferences)? Pair up. Discuss your level two observations Share. Share with the class

  23. Massachusetts 1920 robbery resulted in the death of a paymaster 3 weeks later Boston police arrested Sacco

  24. Tension: Rising Intolerance • Discuss with your partner: what is going on in this photograph?

  25. Klu Klux Klan “nativist” Opposed Catholics, blacks Jews, immigrants, homosexuals, Asians, drug dealers, “wild women” the Pope, politician Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1924, Washington DC 40,000

  26. Tension: Racial Intolerance to Violence Think/pair/share Think. Look. What are some level one observations (facts)? Pair up. Discuss your level one observations Share. Share with the class. Think. Look. What are some level two observations (inferences)? Pair up. Discuss your level two observations Share. Share with the class

  27. Lynching, 1920, 75 lynched By whites to blacks Mob catches the victim, usually a male, ties him to the stake Hang him or burn him alive, shot the corps Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit”

  28. Strange Fruitby Billie Holiday Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves, and blood at the root Black bodies swingin’ in the soutehrn breeze Strange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees Oh, oh, oh

  29. Pastoral scene of the gallant south Of the bulgin’ eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of Magnolia, sweet and fresh And the sudden smell of burning flesh Here is a fruit for the crows to cluck For the rain to gather and for wind to suck For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop Oh, here is a strange and bitter crop Oh, here is a strange and bitter crop

  30. Tension: Marcus Garvey and Black Power • African Americans look for new leaders • Marcus Garvey, “universal, African-centered Negro liberation” • 1914 forms United Negro Improvement Association • Promoted Separatism • Back-to-Africa movement, fails • Garvey- separatism (later Malcolm X) • Booker T. Washington (later Martin Luther King Jr)

  31. Tension: Science vs. Religion • Religious fundamentalism on the rise • Charles Darwin: Origin of Species foundation of biology • Evolution was illegal to teach in some states • John Scopes, 24 year old science teacher from Tennessee • Taken to court “monkey trial” • Found guilty

  32. THE END

  33. Create an Acrostic 25 pts • Describe six different aspects of the 1920s • Include an illustration for at least two of the lines • Here is an example of a partially-completed acrostic: Two Italian immigrants, Sacco and Vanzetti, were … White headed members of the KK…. E…. N… T… . . .

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