Social Studies The Roaring Twenties 2020 Academic Super Bowl
The Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties
Government & Politics Early 20th Century America A. Domestic & Foreign Policies A. America before World War I B. The Harding Presidency & Scandals B. Impact of World War I C. The Coolidge Presidency C. Unrest & Change in 1919 & 1920 D. The Hoover Presidency E. The Democrat Opposition F. The 1932 Election The Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties Social Changes Economic Changes A. Urbanization A. Post-War Economic Instability B. Families B. Industrialization C. African-Americans C. Coolidge Prosperity D. Immigration D. Economic Inequality & Unrest E. Crime & Corruption E. The Great Depression F. Reactions & Resistance to Change G. Social Critics
New World Coming: The 1920’s & The Roaring Twenties the Making of Modern America by Nathan Miller
Popular Culture in the 1920’s Nathan Miller is an award-winning journalist and the author of several A. Literature & the Arts works of history and biography. In B. Entertainment & Celebrities this PG-13 history, he focuses on change and continuity within the United States in the turbulent 1920’s. With the exception of writing that the Ku Klux Klan faced no opposition in Indiana, Miller accurately describes the many controversies of this significant time period. Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana By James Madison Social Chapter 12 Studies Flappers & Klansmen Challenge Traditions: The 1920’s Resources
In Chapter 12 of his survey of Indiana history, • Study Guide former Indiana University professor James Madison ties events in Indiana to national • Assigned Texts trends and describes influential Hoosiers of • Reading Guide the 1920’s. His analysis of the Indiana Ku • Practice Klux Klan corrects Nathan Miller’s observation Questions that the Ku Klux Klan faced no opposition in Indiana.
Study Reading Guide Guide
The reading guide, organized by chapters The study guide outlines the general in the assigned texts, lists both general social studies themes and topics which and specific historical events and students should understand. All concepts as well as individuals that contest questions will relate to these students should know. Every contest themes and topics. question and answer is related to the specific facts in the reading guide. Coaches may use the Practice Know general information Reading Guide practice questions in a about terrorism and Example variety of ways. Students Questions political violence in NWC may study the questions and Chapter 2. correct answers as well as Understand definition of NWC Chapter 2 the distractors to prepare for anarchist & Bolshevik; competitions. Coaches may know specific information Terrorism & political violence use the questions to quiz about each. o Anarchist & Bolsheviks students after they have Know specific information o studied the assigned texts. about Espionage & Espionage & Sedition Act Sedition Act. of 1918 Reviewing both the study questions and questions from Know specific information o “The Outrage” of 1920 about “The Outrage.” the invitational contests is o The Red Scare good preparation for the area Know specific information about the Red Scare and state competitions.
Indiana History Questions Competition Questions
Questions related to All questions relate to the study guide and the Indiana history may reading guide. There are no “surprise come from either questions.” New World Coming All questions originate in the assigned texts, New World Coming and Hoosiers. by Nathan Miller or Students should expect that each competition Hoosiers by James will include questions related to the history of Madison. The Indiana, women, Africa-Americans, and popular Reading Guide will culture. identify selected No competition questions include maps or 1919 strike by steel workers in Hoosiers in New pictures. Gary Indiana (NWC Chp. 2) World Coming. Questions About Questions About Significant Economic Trends Significant Social Trends
In the early 1920’s, as a get-rich-quick virus swept across the Nathan Miller writes that the so-called “collapse of morals” of United States, optimistic Americans were likely to believe that the 1920’s was primarily a change in manners and in fashion they would be most likely to make a fortune in the bond and that took place within a short period of time and included stock markets if they could do which of the following? which of the following?
A. Accumulate adequate capital to invest A. Dating outside of the home without a chaperone B. Buy government bonds and avoid corporate stocks B. Decreased consumption of alcoholic beverages C. Invest in new and emerging enterprises C. Strong peer pressure against indiscriminate sex D. Learn all they could about stocks and bonds D. All of the above Reading Guide NWC Chp. 12 Reading Guide NWC Chp. 13 “Collapse of morals” The Stock Market
Questions About Significant Individuals Questions About Significant Politicians The editor of The Smart Set magazine paid F. Scott Fitzgerald $30 for a short story in 1919 and would later describe the then In 1919, Attorney General Mitchell Palmer began a campaign 23-year-old as “full of Army ways” and “a slim, blond young for the presidency that contrasted with his record as a fellow, tall and straight in build and so handsome that he might member of Congress and his image as a Wilsonian liberal. In even have been called beautiful.” Known as “The Sage of his presidential campaign, he deliberately attempted to exploit public fear or disapproval of which of the following? Baltimore,” who was this prominent journalist and influential social critic? A. Bolsheviks and anarchists Reading Guide NWC Chp. 2 Reading Guide NWC Prologue & Chp. 1 B. Federal regulation of industry, Mitchell Palmer A. Henry Mencken F. Scott Fitzgerald including child labor laws The Red Scare Henry Mencken Anarchists & Bolsheviks B. Gene Tunney A. Labor unions C. William Allen White B. Women’s suffrage and birth control. D. Walter Winchell Questions About Significant Questions About Business & Labor Leaders Significant Events
Which of the following statements accurately describes the Three of the following statements accurately describe the final chapter of Samuel Insull’s life? Mississippi Delta in the years before the Great Flood of 1927. Which statement is false? A. He committed suicide as his utilities empire was collapsing. A. Large landowners, wealthy and white, dominated the Delta B. He fled to Europe and lived in luxury until he suffered a fatal and its poor black and white population. heart attack. B. One of America’s most fertile farm regions, the Delta C. He lost his fortune and died in poverty in France. experienced floods every spring. D. He was convicted of fraud and embezzlement and died in C. Recent weather had been unseasonably cold and turbulent. federal prison. D. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had constructed a Reading Guide NWC Chp. 13 system of spillways to divert flood waters. Samuel Insull Reading Guide NWC Chp. 16 Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
Questions About Reading Guide Chp. 8 Questions About 1924 Election Political Events Democrats’ national convention Significant Technology John Davis
At the Democrats’ national convention of 1924, 15 days of By 1930, the Big Four and other American airlines were flying bitter political and even physical combat and 103 ballots had fatally divided the party. A compromise brought the sorry about 73 million passenger miles a year as they operated spectacle to an end and gave the worthless presidential aircraft that carried how many passengers on each flight. nomination to which of the following men? A. Between 12 and 15 A. The governor of Nebraska who was the brother of William Jennings Bryan B. Between 25 and 30 Reading Guide NWC Chp. 15 Commercial air services B. A prominent Wall Street lawyer who had been Woodrow C. Between 50 and 75 “Big Four” airlines D. Wilson’s solicitor general Between 90 and 100 Passenger service C. The “wet” governor of New York who was a Roman Catholic D. Woodrow Wilson’s son-in-law who had also been his Secretary of the Treasury Questions About Questions About Reading Guide NWC Chp. 12 Women’s History Women Significant Women The Flapper vs The Working Girl
Which of the following statements accurately describes Which one of the following notable women, a movie star who working women in the 1920’s? projected sexual attractiveness, energy, and independence, became a popular role models for young women of the A. By the end of the decade, more than 40% of the United 1920’s? States labor force was female. B. Discrimination limited most African-American women to Reading Guide monotonous factory work. A. Elizabeth Arden NWC Chp . 10 Gertrude Stein NWC Chp. 12 Elizabeth Arden & Clara Bow C. Industrial and trade unions eagerly recruited working B. Clara Bow NWC Chp. 16 Lou Henry Hoover women. C. Lou Henry Hoover D. White middle-class women flocked to “lace collar” jobs in D. Gertrude Stein offices and retail stores.
Reading Guide NWC Questions About Questions About Chp. 7 Immigration & National Origins Act of 1924 Significant Women Religion Chp. 16 Election of 1928 Anti-Catholicism
Margaret Sanger was first arrested in March of 1912. She Which of the following statements accurately describes was charged with which of the following crimes? religion in the United States during the bitter 1928 presidential campaign? A. Participating in violent demonstrations B. Performing illegal abortions A. About 16% of Americans were Roman Catholics C. Selling banned birth control devices B. More than 80% of Americans attended Protestant churches D. Sending birth control information through the mail or Jewish synagogues C. Roman Catholic immigration from Southern Europe was increasing dramatically Reading Guide NWC Chp. 12 Marriage & Family D. All of the above Margaret Sanger Questions About Questions About Religious Personalities Music, Musicians, & Composers
What was Billy Sunday’s occupation before he became In the early 20th Century, talented but poor black musicians American’s most successful traveling hellfire and brimstone created a vibrant new music called jazz in a sordid and seedy preacher? neighborhood called Storyville in which of the following Mississippi River cities? A. The flamboyant owner of a speakeasy B. The handsome star of Hollywood westerns A. Baton Rouge C. An outfielder with the Chicago White Stockings B. Memphis Reading Guide NWC Chp. 2 D. A small-town Baptist preacher C. New Orleans Jazz D. St. Louise Reading Guide Chp. 11 Bily Sunday
Questions About Questions About Literature & Authors Sports & Athletes
Who was the popular Midwestern writer of the 1920’s who Red “The Galloping Ghost” Grange was a popular player in created such staples of western fiction as the legendary lone what sport that debuted in 1920? gunman and the “Code of the West” and was praised by the department store tycoon John Wanamaker as being “distinctly A. College basketball and genuinely American”? B. College football Reading Guide NWC Chp. 10 C. Professional basketball A. Edgar Rice Burroughs Popular Literature D. Professional football Book publishing Reading Guide NWC Chp. 15 B. Edgar Guest Trends in literature Professional & college sport C. Gene Stratton-Porter Edgar Rice Burroughs Red “Galloping Ghost” Grange D. Zane Grey Edgar Guest Gene Stratton-Porter Zane Grey Reading Guide NWC Chp. 8 Questions About Murder Trial of Leopold & Loeb Questions About Reading Guide H Chp 12 Nathan Leopold Anti-labor sentiment Notorious Criminals Richard Loeb Indiana History
Three of the following statements accurately describe the trial In 1919, steel workers in Gary and East Chicago went on and sentences of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb for the strike demanding the right to bargain collectively as well as murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924. Which reductions in their twelve-hour work days and seven-day work statement is false? weeks. What was the result of that strike?
A. In prison, a fellow inmate murdered Loeb; Leopold was A. Employers reduced the work day and work week but eventually paroled. refused to negotiate with the union. B. Employers recognized the workers right to bargain B. They avoided the death penalty by pleading not guilty by collectively. reason of insanity. C. New state laws guaranteed workers’ collective bargaining C. They were represented by the famed defense lawyer rights. Clarence Darrow. D. State militia and federal forces broke the strike and the D. Their crime is regarded as the first of many sensational workers gained nothing. “crimes of the century.”
Questions About The Roaring Twenties Indiana History The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
The influential Middletown studies of Robert and Helen Lynd focused on the day-to-day lives of the residents of which Indiana city?
A. Evansville B. Kokomo C. Muncie D. Seymour Reading Guide NWC Chp. 9 Middletown Studies Robert & Helen Lynd