warm up 3/5/12• Why did the government set the quota at 2%

of a particular group’s population from 1890?it would keep out the newer immigrant groups

because their groups were just starting to come over at that time

NEXT….• open your notebook to the next blank page• set up for Cornell notes

cornell notesEssential question: Why was new and different about the 1920’s?

Roaring 20’sMany new inventions1.2.3.

history.com 1920’s inventions

Stock Market • Stock Market rose incredibly quickly

in a short amount of time •Rising economy fueled the massive

rate of consumption

Leisure Activities• Young people begin to enjoy themselves • Parties, dancing, drinking, smoking • Kids left home for the first time to go

away to college• Professional sporting events• Listened to radio• going to the movies

Jazz Age

People listened to a new, edgier type

of music known as Jazz

Louis Armstrong

Blacks left the South followingthe cotton crop failure. Theywent looking for jobs andbetter opportunities.

Harlem Renaissance• African-Americans began to write about their

experiences in greater numbers • Expressed pride in Black Culture • Langston Hughes

Prohibition • Many worried about the excesses of the 1920’s • Women’s Temperance Movement wanted to ban

alcohol

Many people disagreed with Prohibition so they…– Drank liquor illegally in “speak-easys” – Made illegal alcohol -- “Bathtub Gin” – “Bootleggers” smuggled alcohol around in their

boots

Women’s Roles

• role of women changed drastically • Became known as “Flappers” • They “bobbed” their hair, their skirts got

shorter, began to drink, smoke, drive, and wear make-up

Who struggled?• Farmers – crops failed, market prices

were low

• Immigrants –1924 National Origins Act: set 2%

quota– literacy tests required–banned immigrants from Asia

What was the Scopes “Monkey Trial”?• Background - • Ruling by state court - • Ruling by state Supreme Court -

• Overturning the guilty verdict meant that there was no case to take to the US Supreme Court so the law forbidding the teaching of evolution stayed legal in Tennessee until the 1960’s.

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summary: Describe how life was different for many people in the

1920’s• homework: complete the 2 review

worksheets• chapter and section number are on the sheets• put your name on your notes, leave your

notebook open, and pass forward