CHANGING SOCIETY

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CHANGING SOCIETY
in the 1920s
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Learning Targets

• Predict what youth culture was like in the in the
  1920s.
• Describe how life changed in the 1920s.
• Evaluate how changing life in the 1920s has
  impacted life today.

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Changing Life
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1920s Changing Life Slang

• Read through Slang of the 1920s and circle your
  favorite three slang words of the 1920s.
• 2. Circle your favorite three slang words.
• 3. Share your favorite words at your tables.
• 4. Discuss
• What predictions about changing life in the 1920s
  can you make from reviewing these slang words?

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1. The Car Fords Assembly Line

• assembly line makes cars affordable for
• masses
• Impact less isolation, roads, suburbs,
• economic boom

• Production time from 12 hours to 2 hours!
• 5 an day so could afford car themselves

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Fords Model T 1927290 (3 mths. wages so used
installment plans 2/3 of sales)
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1920s Today Discussion

• Think What type of automobile technology would
  be considered revolutionary today? Write this in
  your notebook.
• Pair Discuss your ideas with the person sitting
  next to you.
• Share Share your ideas with the large group.

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2. Harlem Renaissance Jazz

• African American achievement in literature,
  music,
• the arts
• jazz developed in South, spread across nation
• Impact A.A. literature, music, art recognized

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Harlem as the night spot in the 1920s
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1920s Today Discussion

• What artists today are making great achievements,
  such as those in the Harlem Renaissance? Who are
  they?
• Is there a place for artists today such as there
  was in Harlem in the 1920s? If so, where? If
  not, why not?

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3. Leisure Time

• movies, radio, sports become popular
• flappers challenge social norms
• ? impact a popular culture is created

• 10 million
• movie goers
• 2/3 weekly
• 10 million
• radio listeners

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4. Consumerism and Advertising

• encouraged people to buy products to improve
  their lives
• installment plans Buy now, pay later
• Impact more sales, more debt, easier life

15 of all purchases 60 of cars, furniture
appliances
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Listerine Slogans Always a bridesmaid, Never a
bride If its bad, you wont be welcomePlay
safe Use Listerine. Resulting Sales 1922
100,000 1929 4 million
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• Money Spent on
• Advertising
• 1.5 billion on print
• ads in magazines and
• newspaper
• 300 million in mail
• 200 on billboards

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1920s Today Discussion

• 1. Study your 1920s advertisement at your table.
• 2. Discuss how the 1920s ad would look
  different in 2009. Consider
• What would the product look like today?
• How would it be advertised today?
• 3. Create a 2009 advertisement for the same (or
  similar) product. Share both ads with large group.

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1920s Changing Life Slang Story

• Review the Slang of the 1920s and the fads of
  the 1920s in Anything Goes.
• Create a story about life in the 1920s using at
  least 10 slang words and details about the 1920s
  as you can.
• Consider how life was changing in the 1920s and
  the cultural clash between the youth generation
  and the older generation.
• 3. Share your story at your table and pick one to
  share to the class.

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Changing Life Final Reflection

• 1. Name three ways that the changing life of
  the 1920s have influenced the world we live in
  today?
• 2. Which has had the largest influence on our
  lives today? Defend your choice.

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Learning Targets

• Predict conflicts present in the 1920s.
• Describe conflicting ideas in the 1920s.
• Evaluate the impact conflicting ideas had on
  society in the 1920s.

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Click Clack Moo

• What is a strike?
• What is a union?
• Who represented the union in the story?
• Who represented the management?
• Why do workers strike?
• What are potential outcomes of a strike?

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Fundamentalists vs. Modernists
Rural vs. Urban
Changing Ideas
A Time of Cultural Clashes
Youth vs. Older Generations
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1. Unions and Strikes

• ? formed because of poor working conditions
• ? support immigrant workers fighting for rights
• opposition management and owners who
• blamed radicals and communists

Fueled fear of Foreign Influence b/c 80 of
workers were immigrants
1919 3,000 strikes Involving 4 million workers
Steel Strike of 1919
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Political Cartoons in Response to Strikes of 1919
Newspaper headlines Plots to establish
Communism. Conspiracy Against the Government
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Red Scare Wordle Prediction

• As a group, look at the words in the Red Scare
  Wordle.
• Using these words, predict how these words relate
  in a sentence or two of your own.
• Share sentences.

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Red Scare Summary

• In 1919, many people in the United States
  feared a communist revolution like the one in
  Russia. This caused a widespread fear of
  political radicals, especially Communists, also
  known as Reds. Immigrants, laborers and unions
  were often accused of being Red.

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2. The Red Scare
? fear of a Communist revolution in the U.S. ?
support A. Mitchell Palmer raided radicals ?
opposition ACLU felt it hurt civil liberties
IWW headquarters after raid
Put them out and keep them out!
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As gag-rulers supporters of Sedition
Laws would have it!
Connection between Red Scare and labor
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Scopes Trial Definitions

• Evolution scientific theory that says man
  evolved from simpler life forms
• Creationism Biblical theory that God created the
  universe
• Fundamentalism strict belief in the bible

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The Scopes Trial Strip Story

1. Your table will be given a series of strips from
   a story about the Scopes Trail.
2. Read the strips as a table.
3. Try to place them in the correct order!

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The Scopes Trial Strip Story

1. In 1925, many states across the South had passed
   laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the
   classroom, including Tennessee. The law in
   Tennessee was known as the Butler Act.
2. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was
   becoming increasingly more concerned that these
   laws infringed on peoples constitutional rights.
3. The ACLU decided to challenge the laws that
   banned evolution from schools. The organization
   began looking for a teacher willing to teach
   evolution in his classroom.
4. John T. Scopes, a 24 year old science teacher in
   Dayton, Tennessee, was chosen to test the Butler
   Act, Tennessees law prohibiting teaching
   evolution in the classroom.
5. After purposefully teaching evolution, Scopes was
   arrested and put on trial.
6. William Jennings Bryan, a Fundamentalist and
   former Presidential candidate, was chosen to be
   the prosecutor in the trial. Clarence Darrow, a
   prominent attorney, was chosen to defend Scopes.
   The two hated each other.
7. During the trial, Darrow called Bryan to the
   stand to question him on biblical beliefs. He
   succeeded in making Bryan look foolish.
8. Despite Darrows success in the trial, Scopes was
   found guilty and fined 100. Although the law
   was rarely enforced it remained on the books
   until 1967.

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3. The Scopes Trial (1925)

• ? decided it was illegal to teach evolution
• support fundamentalists
• ? opposition modernists ACLU

Nicknamed The Monkey Trial
Ruling Guilty and Fined 100 Nut TN SC Set
aside
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Opposing Views on The Scopes Trial
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You Cant Make a Monkey Out of Me

• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/sfeature/
  sf_music.html

Can science ever prove it? Will Monkey Trial
remove it? We all have ideas of our own. If some
with monkeys feet , let stay in their
tree. Dont talk their chatter to me. The whole
missing link puts history on the blink. Ill give
you my opinion, the whole chain was forced, I
think. Chorus You cant make a monkey of
me. You cant make a monkey of me. Theres not a
monkey in my family tree. Ive searched on each
branch from Adam to me. I am inclined to believe
the story of Adam and Eve. Theres no chimpanzee
in my pedigree. And you cant make a monkey of
me. You cant make a monkey of me.
Were in a revolution just over evolution. The
battle of ages is on. Some scientists all claim
were human just by name That Monkey and Man are
the same. But Darwins theory doesnt sound good
to me. I might have monkey manners, but with him
I cant agree. Chorus You cant make a monkey
of me. You cant make a monkey of me. Theres not
a monkey in my family tree. Ive searched on each
branch from Adam to me. I am inclined to believe
the story of Adam and Eve. Theres no chimpanzee
in my pedigree. And you cant make a monkey of
me. Repeat
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4. Prohibition (1920-1933)

• ? banned alcohol under the 18th Amendment
• ? support Anti-Saloon League, rural areas
• opposition Urban areas, liquor lobby
• led to bootlegging, speakeasies, mafia
  violence

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Violence of Valentines Day Massacre
Chicago Speakeasies
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Minneapolis Speakeasy The 5-8 Club
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Conflicting Ideas Reflection

• Without looking at your notes, write a summary of
  how society and ideas were changing in the 1920s.
• Which change do you think had the most impact on
  society? Explain.

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1920s Today Discussion

• Think The 1920s was a time of conflicting
  ideas. What are the conflicting ideas of
  today? What changes or ideas underlie this
  conflict?
• Pair Talk over your ideas with a partner.
• Share Share as a class.

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Harlem Renaissance Famous Person Introduction

• 1. Assign roles
• Poster reader
• Recorder
• Timekeeper
• Presenter
• Read through the famous person of the Harlem
• Renaissance poster.
• 3. Decide as a table what the three most
  important facts about your person are and record
  your answers.
• 4. Introduce your famous person of the Harlem
  Renaissance in 30 seconds.