Content Standard: 11.4 Students trace the rise of the United States to its role as a world power in the twentieth century.

CCST: 11.2.2 - Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.

WHST: 11.12.9 - Draw evidence from informational text to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Assignments to meet the standard: 1 week

Learning Outcomes

Once you are done with this lesson, you should be able to:

Completing this lesson should help you do the following:

• Describe the changes in American culture during the 1920s thanks to the economic boom after WWI
• Recognize the changes politically and socially after passage of the 19th Amendment
• Identify the urbanization of the country at this time
• Detail the Jazz Era and Harlem Renaissance

1920's - Lesson Plan - To complete viewing the videos time: 1 Hour and 12 minutes. Plus time to take notes. Time yourself, how long it takes you to finish the quiz, and add that amount of time to your unit completion time.

The Roaring 20’s (1920 - 1929)

• 1920’s American Culture: City Life & Values -10:49 - Video

Essential Question: What is the 19th Amendment?

• American Economy in the 1920’s: Consumerism, Stock Market & Economic Shift - 6:36 - Video

Essential Question: What were the causes of the economic stock market collapse of 1929?

• American Politics in the 1920’s: Transition, Corruption & the Teapot Dome Scandal - 5:28 - Video

Essential Question: What is the Teapot Dome Scandal about?

• Prohibition of the 1920’s: Definition, 18th Amendments & Results - 6: 09 - Video

Essential Question: What is the 18th Amendment?

• American Organized Crime of the 1920’s - 8:24 - Video

Essential Question: How did the St. Valentine's Day Massacre help end organized crime?

• American Art, Pop Culture & Literature of the 1920’s. - 7:51 - Video

Essential Question: What is modernism in photography?

• Art and Culture of the Harlem Renaissance: Artists, Poets, Authors & Music - 7:38 - Video

Essential Question: Who are some of the influential authors of the Harlem Renaissance?

• The Ku Klux Klan, Eugenics and Nativism: Definition, Movement & Social Reactions - 6:27 - Video

Essential Question: What factors contributed to nativism and racism in the 1920s?

• The Red Scare of the 1920’s: Definitions, Summary & Causes - 5:34 - Video

Essential Question: What is the Red Scare, and how does it end?

• The Scopes Trial and Scottsboro Trials: Summaries & Significance - 9:56 - Video

Essential Question: What is the importance of the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial of 1925?