Snapshot: The Decades

‘20s Template

Goal
Your goal is to identify the historical patterns in the domestic affairs of the United States during the 1920s. You need to give specific attention to these topics:

The Red Scare
Women’s right to vote
Black Americans’ migration from the South to the North
Immigration restrictions, nativism, race riots and the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan
The Roaring ‘20s and the Harlem Renaissance
The stock market speculation and the stock market crash

Assignment
Your group will study one area and present your findings to the class. You will also make a timeline that includes the major events that your group finds in each of the areas listed above. Your presentation to the class can be in the form of PowerPoint, a skit, a TV news report, a commercial or public service announcement, a photo essay, a newspaper, a song, a poster or any other approach that your teacher approves. Circle the group on which you will be working.

The Political Group will find and present information about these subjects:

The initial policy of the United States with regard to the topics above
The public reaction to that policy
The government response to the public reaction

The Economic Group will find and present information about these subjects:

The economic policies of the government with regard to the topics above
The economic opportunities of the people (such as race, gender and social standing)
The economic atmosphere — what the reality of the economic condition was

The Social Group will find and present information about these subjects:

Consumerism — fashion, advertising, food, etc.
Entertainment — sports and music Famous people
Civil rights

The Science/Technology Group will find and present information about these subjects:

Inventions from this era
Medicine
Technology

After the presentations have been made, you will write a report about the decade in which you would like to live, and why you made that choice.

‘20s Template (PDF File)