1920s: The Roaring Twenties

Image Source - Tulsa Race Massacre (1921)

1920s: The Roaring Twenties

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
1920s: The Roaring Twenties

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

Growing Our Vocabulary
(Essential Lesson)

Directions: These words need to be added to your personal glossary with definitions.
* = words we will do the Frayer Model on together

flapper
*renaissance
*bootlegger
prohibition

temperance
*speculation
*Hooverville

buying on margin
*market volatility
speakeasy

Add words that you came across throughout these Essential Lessons that you learned and add them to your glossary.

Overview Videos

Chapter 14:
War is the Health of the State

Newsela:
Tulsa's "Black Wall Street"

Ida B. Wells:
Reporting the Truth

Battle of Blair Mountain (1921)

Arts Throughout the 1920s

Additional Lessons

These Lessons can help you better understand different aspects of the concept we are studying.
These Lessons are NOT mandatory but would add to your learning about this time period.

These may be articles/videos/podcasts about our topics and there may or may not be specific instructions to do something with them other than read/watch/listen and see how it can add meaning to your understanding.