Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

The Roaring 20s/Crash Course US History #32

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

11

Overview

In this video from PBSLearningMedia, John Green teaches students about the United States in the 1920s. They were known as the roaring 20s, but not because there were lions running around everywhere. In the 1920s, America's economy was booming, and all kinds of social changes were in progress. Hollywood, flappers, jazz, there was all kinds of stuff going on in the 20s. John will teach you about Charleston, the many Republican presidents of the 1920s, laissez-faire capitalism, jazz, consumer credit, the resurgent Klan, and all kinds of other stuff.

    Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 11 - United States History II

    SS10.US2.2

    Evaluate social and political origins, accomplishments, and limitations of Progressivism. [A.1.a., A.1.b., A.1.c., A.1.d., A.1.e., A.1.f., A.1.i., A.1.k.]

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SS10.US2.2

    Vocabulary

    • textual evidence
    • evaluate
    • cite
    • Progressivism
    • muckraker
    • trust
    • antitrust
    • suffrage
    • temperance movement
    • civil rights
    • trust-busting
    • conservation

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • The social, economic, and political origins, accomplishments, and limitations of the Progressive.
    • The impact of the Populist Movement on the role of the federal government in American society.
    • The impact of muckrakers on public opinion during the Progressive movement, including Upton Sinclair, Jacob A. Riis, and Ida M. Tarbell.
    • The influence and impact of social movements, including: women's suffrage, temperance movement, and civil rights for African-Americans.
    • The influence of specific social groups and influential individuals on the Progressive Era, including: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the Niagara Movement, the National *Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Carter G. Woodson.
    • National legislation affecting the Progressive movement, including the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act.
    • The significance of the public education movement initiated by Horace Mann.
    • The impact of the presidential leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson in obtaining passage of measures regarding trust-busting, the Hepburn Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve Act, and conservation.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Effectively evaluate the complexities, origins, limitations, accomplishments and affects of social and political movements such as the Progressive and Populist Movements.
    • Evaluate the influence of prominent individuals and groups from specific historical time periods on public opinion, social and political movements, and national legislation.
    • Explain national legislation that was influence by and that affected social and political movements.
    • Assess the significance of the public education movement initiated by Horace Mann.
    • Compare the presidential leadership during specific historical periods.
    • Analyze primary and secondary historical sources.
    • Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • There were political, economic, and social origins, accomplishments, and limitations of the Progressive Era and these have impacted American society through the present.
    Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 11 - United States History II

    SS10.US2.5

    Evaluate the impact of social changes and the influence of key figures in the United States from World War I through the 1920s, including Prohibition, the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the Scopes Trial, limits on immigration, Ku Klux Klan activities, the Red Scare, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Jazz Age, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W. C. Handy, and Zelda Fitzgerald. (Alabama) (A.1.a., A.1.b., A.1.d., A.1.f., A.1.i., A.1.j., A.1.k.)

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SS10.US2.5

    Vocabulary

    • prohibition
    • Nineteenth Amendment
    • Scopes trial
    • Ku Klux Klan
    • Red Scare
    • Harlem Renaissance
    • mass culture

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • The causes, effects, and impact of social and political events in the United States from World War I through the 1920, including Prohibition, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the *Scopes Trial, limits on immigration, Ku Klux Klan activities, the Red Scare, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, and the Jazz Age.
    • The impact of influential individuals on social, political, and economic realities in the United States from World War I through the 1920, including Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W. C. Handy, and Zelda Fitzgerald.
    • The impact of media on social and political realities in the United States from World War I through the 1920.
    • The impact of major works of American artists and writers from World War I through the 1920, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes and H.L. Mencken.
    • The importance of technological innovations through the 1920s and the impact these had on social, economic, political, and individual realities in the United States.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Explain social, economic, political, and cultural changes in the United States during specific historical periods and related to specific historical events.
    • Describe the influence of specific individuals and groups on the United States during specific historical periods into modern times.
    • Analyze the impact of technical innovations and changing media on American social and political realities.
    • Determine central ideas of primary and secondary sources.
    • Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • There were significant impacts of the social changes and the influence of prominent figures in the United States from WWI through the 1920s.
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