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Lesson 21: The Rise of Technology in American Life

Lesson 21: The Rise of Technology in American Life. 4 Types of Jobs Created by Advertising Printers Copy Writers Graphic Artists Designers Unskilled workers in Paper manufacturing. How did Advertising lead people to spend more money?.

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Lesson 21: The Rise of Technology in American Life

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  1. Lesson 21: The Rise of Technology in American Life 4 Types of Jobs Created by Advertising • Printers • Copy Writers • Graphic Artists • Designers • Unskilled workers in Paper manufacturing

  2. How did Advertising lead people to spend more money? • Encouraged people to spend money on the latest new products or fashions; it suggested that the new product was something most people could not do without

  3. Define: Sears, Roebuck and Company: • first mail order catalog so people could order goods and have them shipped to their homes Types of programming found on radio were: • concerts, sporting events, news and information, and advertising

  4. Page 158: Try this Section • 1. Model T • 2. Coca Cola • 3. Radio • 4. Empire State Building • 5 Skyscraper • 6. Advertisements • All are symbols of the MODERN Age.

  5. Page 159 • 1-B • 2- A • 3- B • 4 -C

  6. Pages 160-161 • 1-C • 2-A • 3-A • 4-C • 5-A • 6-D

  7. Lesson 24: Effects of WW I What was the effect of the influenza epidemic in Philadelphia: • 11,000 people died in October, 1918 What was its effect on the world? • 19 million died What happened to women workers when the men returned from the war? • Women were expected to give up their jobs to men. Women resented having to do this.

  8. What was the US unemployment rate in 1921? • 12% What effect did the end of WWI have on this? • Factories lost government contracts when the war ended and laid off workers to cut costs. How many strikes took place during 1919? Explain the reason workers were so unhappy. • 3,000 strikes. Workers were supposed to work harder without a pay raise or other benefits to make up for the workers who were laid off.

  9. Describe each strike 1919 Seattle General Strike: • Over 100 Seattle workers joined a general walkout in support of striking shipyard workers Boston Police Strike: • Went on strike to protest the suspension of officers who had joined a union. Crime rose during the strike. Many police were replaced by unemployed war veterans.

  10. Pennsylvania Steelworkers Strike: • Wanted a union, higher wages, and shorter hours, but lost the strike United Mineworkers Strike: • Wanted a pay raise, 5 day work week, and 6 hour work day. Strike was led by John Lewis and strikers got a 14% pay raise.

  11. Identify: John L. Lewis: • led the UMW strike Red Scare: • 1919-1920 fear of communism Eugene Debs: • socialist who ran for President 5 times; thrown in jail for breaking the Sedition Act during WWI and got 920,000 votes for President while in jail A. Mitchell Palmer: • Attorney General of the US; In November, 1919, he arrested and deported thousands of suspected radicals, socialists and communists

  12. Page 179 • 1-C • 2- A • 3- B • 4 -A

  13. Pages 180-181 • 1-D • 2-C • 3-D • 4-C • 5-A • 6-C • 7-A • 8-D • 9-B

  14. Lesson 27: Lifestyle in the Twenties and Thirties John Dos Passos: • writer of the Lost Generation Lillian Hellman: • writer of the Lost Generation What are the roots of jazz and what makes it distinctive? • Came from the African American community and developed from ragtime, spirituals, and blues; blended African musical techniques with European concepts Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden: • co-founders of TIME magazine, the first national weekly news magazine

  15. Identify Helen Willis: • tennis star who won 19 singles titles Bootlegging: • sold illegal alcohol Speakeasies: • Hidden nightclubs where people could hear jazz and buy alcohol How did Prohibition lead to the increase and rise of Organized Crime? • Took control of the supply and distribution of bootleg liquor

  16. Page 194 • 1-A • 2-D • 3-E • 4-F • 5-C • 6-B

  17. Page 195 • 1-C • 2-C • 3-A • 4-B

  18. Lesson 28: Challenging Convention Margaret Sanger: • advocated Birth Control Jeanette Rankin: • first woman to hold a seat in the US House of Representatives James Weldon Johnson: • Harlem Renaissance writer Cotton Club: • best jazz club in NY city; was segregated with African American performers but all audiences were white. Religious fundamentalism: • belief that every word in the Bible is to be taken literally

  19. List ways that women gained power and became more equal during the decade. • Began to run for office; got the right to vote; began going to college; elected as state Governors; were famous writers and singers Who were the Nicholas Brothers and how did they strike a modest blow for civil rights? • Temporarily integrated the Cotton Club because they were asked to come into the audience and sit after their performance was over

  20. Page 199 • 1-B • 2- C • 3- A • 4 -A

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