Unpacked Content
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.
Vocabulary
- prohibition
- Nineteenth Amendment
- Scopes trial
- Ku Klux Klan
- Red Scare
- Harlem Renaissance
- mass culture
