Learning Goal: Students will be able to explain at least 2 trends of the 1920’s.

Bellwork: Thesis Statement PromptDirections: Read the following prompt and respond with a 1 sentence thesis statementPoint Value: 9 Points (Quiz Grade)PROMPT: The League of Nations was going to fail regardless of whether or not the U.S. joined it. Agree or Disagree and give at least 2 specific reasons why

Complete a Supreme Court Case Study Handout

You have 10 minutes to completeChoose from the following Cases:

Miranda v Arizona Brown v Board Plessy v Ferguson Tinker v Des Moines

Definition: Hating all non-native Americans

Examples: Emergency Quota Act (1921) The number

of immigrants allowed to enter the U.S. was limited to 3% of the # (number) of immigrants already living in the US as of 1910

Sacco & Vanzetti Trial: Innocent, but victims of the Red ScareLearning Goal: Students will be able

to explain at least 2 trends of the 1920’s.

KKK = Ku Klux Klan Focused on foreigners/immigrants, not blacks Members had to be native-born white

Protestants

Hated the American “Melting Pot” (idea that the U.S. was a melting pot of different cultures and ethnicities)

Also protested against African-Americans, Catholics, and Jewish people

Klan died out when their leader assaulted and killed a young girl

Learning Goal: Students will be able to explain at least 2 trends of the 1920’s.

What is 1 trend of the 1920s?

Conflict between creationism and evolution

Fundamentalists believed in the Bible and the creation story as told in Genesis 1

Darwin’s theory of evolution argued people came from earlier life forms

Learning Goal: Students will be able to explain at least 2 trends of the 1920’s.

SCOPES TRIAL- nicknamed the Monkey Trial

John Scopes taught evolution, on purpose, because it was illegal. He was arrested, tried, and found guilty but no real punishment

Learning Goal: Students will be able to explain at least 2 trends of the 1920’s.

Option 1: Thesis StatementPrompt Nativism was a major problem

during the 1920s. Agree or Disagree, and provide AT LEAST 2 historical examples to prove your thinking.

Option 2: KWL Chart on World War 1 and the US

What I Already Know

What I WANT to Know

What I have LEARNED

1) 1) 1)

2) 2) 2)

3) 3) 3)

Prohibit = to not allow 18th Amendment (1920): Alcohol made

illegal Volstead Act: Law made to enforce the 18th

Amendment. Made it illegal to make and sell any beverage with alcohol content of .5% or higher

Why prohibition? Many believed alcohol was at the root of many social evils

21st Amendment: Alcohol made legal againLearning Goal: Students will be able to explain at least 2 trends of the 1920’s.

Anti-Saloon League- protested for legal prohibition

Saloon = bar in the 1920s

WTCU (Women’s Christian Temperance Union)- female group dedicated to banning alcohol

Speakeasies = illegal bars during Prohibition Bootlegging = illegally making and selling

alcohol

Learning Goal: Students will be able to explain at least 2 trends of the 1920’s.

Mobster, nicknamed ScarfaceMade a ton of $$ smuggling and

selling alcoholMade over $60 million by 1927

selling alcohol, and leading a gambling and prostitution ring

Learning Goal: Students will be able to explain at least 2 trends of the 1920’s.

Noble = something morally goodThis was the nickname for

ProhibitionProhibition failed because it was too

difficult to enforce (bribes, not enough police)

Learning Goal: Students will be able to explain at least 2 trends of the 1920’s.

Finish for homeworkCreate a Layered Book Foldable for

Amendments 18, 19, and 21Be VERY specific with the details for

each amendmentTry and include quotes from each

amendment