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Challenges of the Greatest Generation

Identify one person/thing for each of the following categories that impacted the U.S. over the last decade. Be sure to explain how. Business, sports, entertainment, society . Challenges of the Greatest Generation. Unit 4. Key Learning.

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Challenges of the Greatest Generation

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  1. Identify one person/thing for each of the following categories that impacted the U.S. over the last decade. Be sure to explain how. • Business, sports, entertainment, society

  2. Challenges of the Greatest Generation Unit 4

  3. Key Learning • Students will examine and analyze primary and secondary sources in order to differentiate between historical fact and historical interpretation.

  4. Unit Question • How do primary and secondary sources present different accounts of the Great Depression and WWII?

  5. Concept 1: Great Depression • EQ: How did the economic conditions of the 1920’s allow for and encourage the social and cultural norms to change?

  6. Importance of 2003-2013 • Business – 2008 Housing Market Crash, Recession • Sports – Doping and Steroids, Bolt, Phelps, • Entertainment – End of Oprah, Beiber, Smartphones • Society – Facebook, twitter,

  7. Paragraph • When future generations study the last decade (2002-2012), what people/things will they study? • Choose 3 things you chose, or we discussed that you think define our decade. Be sure to explain why. (at least 5 sentences)

  8. The Roaring 20’s • Decade defined by rapid social change and economic prosperity • Politics returned to business as usual after WWI (laissez faire) • Culture– Harlem Renaissance, Jazz, 19th Amendment, and Prohibition

  9. 1920’s ID’s

  10. 1920’s Identifications • Make a T Chart: • Identify the person, place, or thing – tell what it is in one sentence using your own words • Describe its impact on the 20’s • Flappers, Prohibition, Jazz, Babe Ruth, 19th Amendment, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindberg, assembly line (model T), Scopes Trial, Harlem Renaissance, Al Capone

  11. 3 Most Important of 1920’s • Defend the three topics (Identifications) from the 1920’s that you feel had the biggest impact on America.

  12. Do Now • Complete your 1920’s ID T-chart

  13. Ch 22 Reading Quiz • 1. Describe the intent of the 18thand19th Amendment. Pg. 193 • 2. Who did the “Ohio Gang” owe their government jobs to? Pg. 718 • 3. Identify one example of progress in the lives of Americans during the 1920’s

  14. President Warren G. Harding • WWI • Export goods = make $ • Europe needs our goods • Laissez Faire • Let the economy run on its own • Business does what it wants

  15. President Calvin Coolidge • Assembly line • Produce more goods faster • Creates more jobs • Big Business • Mass production • National and foreign market • Cheap Products

  16. What does all this mean!? • BOOMING ECONOMY!!

  17. How did the booming economy encourage social change? • More leisure time • More mobility • More money • Need for entertainment (write it in the arrow!!)

  18. Resulting Culture of the 20’s? • Fill in the boxes below using the 11 terms you defined earlier. Flappers, Prohibition, Jazz, Babe Ruth, 19th Amendment, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindberg, assembly line (model T), Scopes Trial, Harlem Renaissance, Al Capone Put each term in either the cause or effect section. Did each term a cause the change in the 1920’s or was the term an effect of the 1920’s

  19. Exit Ticket • Use your chart • Explain what changes were an effect of the economic boom?

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