The document provides an overview of several key people, events, and developments that occurred in the United States during the 1920s. It mentions postwar isolationism, nativism, and fears of communism that led to the Palmer Raids and Sacco and Vanzetti trial. It also discusses social changes like Prohibition, the rise of fundamentalism, Scopes Trial, flappers and new styles for women. Additionally, it outlines technological innovations, the growth of consumerism, and cultural developments like the Harlem Renaissance and works of writers like Fitzgerald and Hemingway that captured the era.

1. The 1920s: Prosperity & Depression

7. Starter: Thursday, November 16 Read “Rural & Urban Difference” on page 640-641 and complete the chart below Urban Life Rural Life

8. Urban Life Rural Life

13. Primary Sources-Analysis Lyric What it means/refers to What we can learn from it about the period

27. Al Capone was a Chicago gangster who was a bootlegger & ran speakeasies

31. Scene from the Scopes Trial (Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan & Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow) John Scopes, a football coach and substitute biology teacher, agreed to be arrested and put on trial to challenge a new law against teaching evolution.

44. "When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.“ - Margaret Sanger

46. Boxer Jack Dempsey

48. Babe Ruth Video!

49. Charles Lindbergh

54. James Weldon Johnson Author of “Lift Every Voice & Sing” (Negro National Anthem)

55. Louis Armstrong & Bessie Smith “St. Louis Blues”

56. Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo”

58. Group WORK!