U.S. Research: The Jazz Age in the 1920’s

Directions: Use 3-5 minutes to double check this subject’s Power School for your class grade and work listings verifying that all work is caught up. Read and heed embedded messages. Next, research your part of the following topics and figure out answers to the questions. Write your questions and detailed answers on lined paper or your notebook paper. These questions and related answers are required to be handed in, once the class discussion is completed. You are expected to use the time completely, be through and become knowledgeable. Write down any puzzles you have related to the material on your paper and bring them up during the class discussion. Warning: If you are found to be using your research time for other things, it will hurt your learning and grade. If you think or claim to be done, you are not! Once your assigned part is ready, then help others on your team or study the test resources from Mr. Spitzer’s web page for the upcoming test. No games, non-topic talk or other activities allowed during research time. The class will research as much as time allows before team sharing and whole class discussion. Since there is always more to learn, Mr. Spitzer encourages you to look into this topic more on your own time. Your class work grade includes: 1. Entire use of time while researching. 2. Answer questions & pay attention during team sharing. 3. Paying attention & participate during class discussion. 4. Turning in your readable questions & notes. Team members who do not do their share, provide hasty sloppy answers, disrupt others and use time ineffectively in the four grade aspects will be removed from the team and required to write out and turn in all answers on their own for the grade.

Topics to Research

1922-1929 Golden Twenties Economy Automobile Industry Farming Difficulties Urban growth War Debts The new woman of the 1920s The Harlem Renaissance Writers and literature Prohibition Problems Radio, Movies, sports, feats and fads Charles Lindbergh and Richard Byrd The Monkey Trial

Questions to be able to discuss

1. Describe the American economy from 1922-September 1929. What was the attitude of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover toward big business of the 1920’s? 2. What marketing techniques did advertising use in the 1920s? What is the relationship between advertising and easy credit? 3. Describe the growth of the automobile industry in the 1920s. How was the automobile the economic multiplier in the 1920s? Describe the automobile industry effect on Michigan in the 1920s. 4. What did the 1920 census reveal about population distribution of Americans? Give the comparison numbers for farm population between 1920 and 1930. Why was this the trend? 5. List the farming situation in the 1920s related to surpluses and price, truck farmers and change in eating habits, citrus industry development, tobacco farming growth and cause, small farmers, large mechanized farmers. 6. Describe the growth of cities and towns in the 1920s. How did bus, automobile and truck travel spur change? Describe the start and grow of suburbs during the 1920s. 7. How much was the U.S. owed by European nations by the end of World War I? Name many of the nations who owed the U.S. money. How did the American high tariff policy of the 20s backfire when it came to collecting war debt? 8. Describe the “new woman” of the 1920s. Describe the look and behaviors of the “flappers.” What were the goals of the National Womans Party? 9. Describe the contributions made by Negros such as Dr. Daniel H. Williams, Matthew Hensen, Meta Warwick Fuller, Henry O. Tanner, George Washington Carver, Andrew “Rube” Foster, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Marian Anderson, Langston Hughes and Marcus Garvey. 10. What was the “Harlem Renaissance?” Explain how the Harlem Renaissance was an expression of black Americans of their discontent as well as of their racial pride. 11. How did some writers like T.S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway show their disillusionment with America of the 1920s? 12. Describe restrictions on drinking alcohol during the Prohibition Era. How did people obtain alcohol anyways to drink? What did President Harding do? 13. How did the Prohibition Era help create a breakdown in morality and lack of respect for the law? 14. Who is Al Capone? Describe his career, variety of activities, etc. How did the government finally successfully make their case against him? Describe the rest of his life, until he died. 15. How did radio and movies develop into very popular entertainment in the 1920s? Give examples of some top hits. 16. Describe the most important sports in the 1920s (baseball, football, boxing) and some of the most famous athletes (Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Jim Thorpe, Jack Dempsey, Johnny Weissmuller, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, and Helen Wills, Man-O-War.) 17. Describe about ten other fads, activities and fashions of the 1920s. 18. Who was Charles Lindbergh and how did he become the most glorified hero of the 1920s? 19. Who was Richard E. Byrd and what did he accomplish? 20. What is Jazz music? How did the 1920s get to be called the Jazz Age? 21. Describe the Monkey Trial (Scopes Trial). Who were the major personalities for each side? What was the legal issue? What was the real issue? What was the legal outcome of the trial? What was the real outcome and historical impact? 22. What happened in Bath, Michigan to make it the site for the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history? Describe the events of May 18, 1927, the causes and people involved. Also relate a survivor account. How could this have been worse? Critical Thinking

23. What do you think accounted for all the “fads” of the 1920s? 24. What were some of the elements in American life that American writers of the 1920s criticized? Do you agree with them? Why or why not? 25. How did the radio, movies and newspapers contribute to conformity? How did they contribute to individualism? What do modern movies, TV, radio, Internet, social media websites, cell phones, etc. help influence you to conformity and/or individualism? 26. Do we have any hero equivalents of Charles Lindbergh today? (Today means since year 2000) Explain. 27. Do we have any terror equivalents of The Bath mass murder today? Explain.