Lesson on Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Aim: What conflicts in culture and politics arose in the 1920s, and how did economic developments in that decade help cause the Great Depression?

Bell Ringer: Review Journals 120 and 121 (5 min)

Agenda:

1. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) (what it stood for, prominent members, its fate) (NAT), associated state (POL), Teapot Dome Scandal (POL),  

"Calvin Coolidge famously said, "The chief business of the American people is business." Agree or disagree? 

2. Dollar Diplomacy (WOR) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Y78EBRqN4 (6 min)

https://www.albert.io/blog/dollar-diplomacy-ap-us-history-crash-course/

3. Journal 122 - How did global conflicts lead to debates over the United States's increasingly dominant role in the world? (10 min)

Exam Alert: Students should recognize the cultural conflicts apparent during the 1920s. This cultural tension has been tested on previous AP exams, including the 2012 exam, which asked students to analyze the origins and outcomes of two of the following: immigration, prohibition, religion. 

4. Prohibition (CUL): Temperance Movement > 18th Amendment: prohibited "manufacturing, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors" anywhere in the U.S.

5. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (CUL): protects free speech rights and challenged the law's constitutionality > Scopes Trial (CUL), Nativism/National Origins Act (CUL): excluded Western Europeans and Latin Americans, Japanese anti-immigrant measures emerged (California denied citizenship and land ownership to Japanese Americans)

6. Ku Klux Klan (KKK) (POL),  Election of 1828 (POL)

7. Thinking Like a Historian 22 (rest of class)

Terms to know: Adkins v. Children's Hospital, welfare capitalism, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, associated state, Teapot Dome, dollar diplomacy, prohibition, American Civil Liberties Union, Scopes Trial, National Origins Act, Ku Klux Klan, 

Home Learning: 

1. Read pages 718-721

2. Journal 123 - How did the Great Migration lead to flourishing African American culture, politics, and intellectual life, and what form did these activities take? 

3. Journal 124 - What criticisms of mainstream culture did modernist American writers offer in the 1920s?