Image Source - ​Tulsa Race Massacre (1921)
1920s-1930s
Roaring 20s (1920s) & ​The Great Depression (1930s)

Skill Focus
Cause and Effect

Compelling Question
Who benefited from the boom of the 1920s and how did those people limit others from benefiting?

Essential Lessons
​Roaring 20s
​(1920s)

Essential Lessons are content lessons that are required by all students to complete. 

Tulsa Race Massacre (1921):
Race Consciousness

How Red Lines Built White Wealth:
A Lesson on Housing Segregation in the 20th Century

Growing Income Inequality:
Class Consciousness

American Experience:
​Flood in the Desert

Immigration Act of 1924
(Johnson-Reed Act)

Making Our Way Home:
​The Great Migration and the Black American Dream

Dive Deeper
Roaring 20s

These lessons can help you better understand different aspects of the Roaring 20s.
​These Lessons are not mandatory but would add to your learning about this time period. 

Arts and Letters of the Harlem Renaissance

Ida B. Wells

Amendments 18 and 21:
​No, Alcohol. YES! Alcohol!

Essential Lessons
Great Depression
​(1930s)

Essential Lessons are content lessons that are required by all students to complete. 

Documentary:
Life in the Thirties (Parts 1 & 2)

Causes of the Great Depression in the U.S.

Mexican American Experience

1932 Presidential Election:
​Roosevelt defeats Hoover

Roosevelt's New Deal

Timeline Documentary:
How The Great Depression Changed The 1930s (49min)

Dive Deeper
Great Depression

These lessons/topics can help you better understand different aspects of the Great Depression.
​These Lessons are not mandatory but would add to your learning about this time period. 

CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps

Bonus Army Attacked
​(1932)

Dust Bowl

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Last Updated May 16th, 2022.