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Bellringer #1:. 1. Tear out the following RSG: P . 201, 203, 205, 213 Complete RSG 20:1 P. 201 #1. Roaring 20’s & The Great Depression. Unit 5 Duke Ellington. Outline – Roaring 20’s. Explain the impact of the 1920s on: Government Economy

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  1. Bellringer #1: 1. Tear out the following RSG: P. 201, 203, 205, 213 Complete RSG 20:1 P. 201 #1

  2. Roaring 20’s & The Great Depression Unit 5 Duke Ellington

  3. Outline – Roaring 20’s Explain the impact of the 1920s on: • Government • Economy • Traditional America Vs. Modern America

  4. Complete the following RSG:1. 20:2 #22. 20:3 #1

  5. 1. Government • Following WWI the US government had a policy of Laissez Fair Economics= • Harding 1921-1923 – “return to normalcy” • Scandals and Corruption • Ex: Teapot Dome scandal • Died in office (heart attack) • Coolidge 1923-1929 – supported big business & laissez fair economics

  6. 2. Economy A. Mass Consumer Culture • Expansion of Mass Production • Production increase / prices decrease • Negative: electric energy replaced coal • Newinventions • Esp. in Home Appliances • Negative: 1. Workers still underpaid 2. Loss of markets which hurt farmers. • Rise of Middle Class • Suburbs-grow more 1950s • Transportation to work

  7. Complete the following RSG:1. 20:3 #2

  8. Installment Plan=encouraged charge it attitude about debt • 1st form of credit -Allowed everyone to buy the new technology -Ultimately led to depression due to: buy now-pay later • Stock Market • Everyone began to invest money • “get rich fast” • Consumer Society- Everyone had MONEY TO SPEND • Movies -Cars -nightlife • Radio -Fashion

  9. Complete the following RSG:1. 20:3 #32. 21:3 #1

  10. B. Economic Depression for Farmers: • Loss of Market-result WWI • Crop Surplus-force prices down, decrease profits • Increase in farm foreclosure= banks take them

  11. 3. Traditional Vs Modern America • Idea of Conformity • Harlem Renaissance • Harlem, NY • Artistic movement of African Americans • Famous People : • Duke Ellington – piano player – jazz – composer

  12. Langston Hughes – poet – Black struggles • Primary Source: When the Negro was in vogue • James Weldon Johnson –Poem • Bessie Smith – singer - jazz (highest paid entertainer) • Alexanders Rage Time Band • The Birth of a Nation • Rotation Exercise-sheet of paper

  13. Great Migration • 6 million African Americans moved northto work in factories • Causedracial tensionin the north • Impact future Civil Rts Movement

  14. ROARING TWENTIES

  15. RSG Packet completed today will be due tomorrow at beginning of class!

  16. Bellringer #2: 1. Tear out RSG 21:1 P. 209 & 21:2 P. 211 2. Complete History through Art P. 641 #1-3

  17. Outline – Roaring 20’s • Women • Red Scare • Immigrants • Temperance Movement • Intellectuals

  18. 1. WOMEN: • Wanted to overthrow the “old” traditionalvalues: Traditional gender roles were still reinforced by the masses. • Many women felt “liberated”during the 20’s • hold chores made easier b/c electric appliances • Increase in Education • 1920, 19th Amendment=suffrage • Increase in employment • Many became flapper girls • Dance • Short hair/skirts • Drink • smoke

  19. Complete the following: 1. RSG 21:2 #1-2

  20. 2. The Red Scare • Fear of Communism • Russia (USSR) had just become Communist which caused the US to fear the spread • Communist Partyformed in US • Sent several dozen bombs in the mail

  21. Palmer Raids • Following an assassination attempt on the Attorney General Palmer a “witch hunt”began • Looking for communist • Manyinnocent immigrantswere wrongly accused • Sacco & Vanzetti • 2 Italian immigrants • arrested/killed for anarchy • Paired Activity: Primary Source-Speech Vanzetti’s speech

  22. 3. Immigrates • Rise in Nativism • US began to createQuotasto limit the number of immigrants allowed into the country • Racist: Allowed more in from western Europe then eastern Europe

  23. Hispanic Catholics(legal/illegal) became the fastest growing minority in the US • Rise of the KKK=shared anti-immigrant sentiments • Attacked Jews, Catholics, immigrants=Chinese • Birth of a Nation

  24. 4. Temperance Movement • 18th Amendment: NO ALCOHOL • Volstead Act: Law that “defined” intoxicating & was supposed to help enforce the amendment

  25. Prohibition= production/sale/transportation of alcohol illegal. • Speakeasiescreated – illegal bars • Bootleggers– sold illegal alcohol • Crime increased • Al Capone • 21stamendment repealed in 1933

  26. Complete the following: 1. RSG 21:1 #1

  27. 5. Intellectuals • “Higher Criticism” • Scholars proposition to examine the Bibleas any other work to determine its validity & relevance • VERY radical – alarmed traditionalists • Fundamentalism vs Evolution • Fundamentalism = Bible is true WORD for WORD • Evolution = all life has evolved over time (not 6 day creation)

  28. Scopes Trial “Monkey Trial” • John Scopestaught evolution and was arrested • William Jennings Bryan was the prosecutor • Fundamentalist • Scopes found guilty • Continued to beillegal to teach evolution • Primary Source: The Scopes Trial{ need 3 readers}

  29. RSG Packet completed today will be due tomorrow at beginning of class!

  30. Bellringer #3: 1. Tear out the following RSG: P. 219, 221, 223 Complete RSG 22:1 #1

  31. Outline – The Great Depression • What • When • Why • Effects

  32. The Great Depression 1. What? • Worldwide economic collapse when unemployment was high & many businesses failed 2. When? • 1930’s

  33. WHY? Speculation Overproduction Stock market crash Panic

  34. WHY? 1. Speculation -high-risk investments in hopes of making lots of money. - “Buying on the margin”– couldn’t afford the cost of a share of a stock so borrowed money and paid interest

  35. Complete the following: 1. RSG 22:1 #2

  36. WHY? 2. Overproduction -New technology causedproduction to increase -TOO much was produced andprices dropped -Farmersprices dropped -Consumer products dropped - reached a point that everyone had “stuff” & didn’t need to buy a “new” one

  37. WHY? 3. Stock Market Crashed -October 29, 1929 -Black Tuesday -Prices dropped because everyone was trying to sell their shares -Shares were not worth what people had paid for them -Individuals and Bankers lost EVERYTHING!

  38. WHY? 4. Panic -After the Crash people started to panic! -Rushed the Banks demanding their money -Banks were forced to close

  39. Complete the following: 1. RSG 22:1 #3-4

  40. Effects on America 1.Unemployment -1/4 -no job -wanted to work but no companies were employing b/c no one was buying goods.

  41. Effects on America 2. Living conditions decrease -President Hoover offered no help -Rugged individualism - “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”

  42. Effects on America 2. Living conditions decrease - Americans could not pay for food. Solution - Soup kitchen/breadlines

  43. Effects on America 3. Farmers -out of work & no place to live -had beenhurt before the depressionb/c of overproduction & falling prices -1st group of Americans hurting -DUST BOWL-BIG drought in the Midwest

  44. Complete the following: 1. RSG 22:2 #1-2

  45. Effects on America 4. Americans DEMANDED HELP A. Bonus Army March -veterans demanded abonus payearlier because of hard times -Congress said no -Hooverhad troops remove men

  46. Effects on America 4. Americans DEMANDED HELP B. Voting -Did NOT vote for Hoover -Voted for New President that promised he would help!!

  47. Effects on America 4. Americans DEMANDED HELP B. Voting -Franklin Roosevelt – democrat elected in 1932 - Believed that the government need to provideDIRECT RELIEF - DEFICIT SPENDING-he wanted to spend money that the Government didn’t have -Gave Americans confidence through hisFIRESIDE CHATS

  48. Complete the following: 1. RSG 22:3 #2

  49. RSG Packet completed today will be due tomorrow at beginning of class!

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