Transcript Bellringer - Burke County Public Schools

Bellringer
Please write the question and your answer.
List four things that changed the lives of
American workers and farmers in the time
after World War I.
Please take a few minutes to reflect on your
answers.
Natural Disasters
• ROBERT HASPEL: Over Easter
weekend, Good Friday,
specifically, we woke up in the
morning, looked out, and it had
been raining torrentially the night
before. And the streets were all
flooded. Living there on Jefferson
Avenue, had a neutral ground,
and from side to side was
water. You couldn’t see the
neutral ground, the water was
over that. And everybody
thought the levee had
broken. Everything was
flooded. First time anybody had
ever seen anything like that. But
the river was intact. The levee
was intact.
Key Terms/People to Know
Section 1: flapper, values, Billy Sunday, fundamentalism,
Aimee Semple McPherson, evolution, Clarence Darrow,
William Jennings Bryan, bootlegger, speakeasy
Section 2: Zora Neale Hurston, Great Migration, Harlem
Renaissance, Marcus Garvey, James Weldon Johnson,
Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, jazz, Louis Armstrong,
Bessie Smith
Section 3: D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Charles A.
Lindbergh, transatlantic, Amelia Earhart, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, George Gershwin
Changing Roles for Women
Skim through pages 647-648.
What are some ways that the role of women in
society changed after the passing of the 19th
amendment?
List 1 political change (women in government)
List 1 economic change (women at work)
List 2 social changes (family roles and flappers)
You have 8 minutes.
Urbanization
Read the section “Effects of Urbanization.”
With a partner, discuss whether or not you think
the urbanization (or movement of people to
cities) was a positive or negative thing for the
country.
Make a brief list in your notes of the pros and cons
of urbanization.
You have 5 minutes.
Conflict over Values
In what ways did urbanization and tough times
in rural America lead to the rise of people
such as Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple
McPherson? (pg. 649-650)
1. What is the term used to describe Sunday’s
followers?
2. List 2 things that Sunday preached against.
3. How were McPherson and Sunday different?
The Monkey Trial
Before discussing the trial, let’s watch this video.
Now, using pgs. 650-651, let’s answer the
following:
Who were a) Clarence Darrow and
b)William Jennings Bryan?
What was the point of Scopes violating the law?
What impact did the Scopes trial have on the
rest of the country?
Bellringer
Please write the question and the answer.
Agree or Disagree: Urbanization of the U.S.
population has led to an increasing polarization
between rural and urban citizens, resulting in the
current social and political discord surrounding the
priorities and values of the U.S.
Please take a few minutes to consider your answer.
The Great Migration
On your own, skim 654-655.
1. How did World War I lead to a surge in
African-Americans moving northward?
2. What were major cities they migrated to?
3. How were they received by the people who
lived in these cities?
4. What happened in Chicago in 1919?
Back to Africa
Search for the following terms using a phone or
device. What do they have in common with one
another? (If no device, consult 656-657).
1. W.E.B. Du Bois
2. NAACP
3. Marcus Garvey
4. UNIA
The Harlem Renaissance
Read page 657 to determine what the cause of
the Harlem Renaissance was.
List 5 characteristics of the Harlem Renaissance.
Key Figures in Literature, Performing
Arts, and the Fine Arts
Using your phone or device, quickly look up what
each of the following artists did, and list a work of
theirs.
1. Langston Hughes
2. Paul Robeson
3. Louis Armstrong
4. Bessie Smith
5. Cab Calloway
6. James Weldon Johnson
7. Claude McKay
Entertaining the Masses
Quickly read page 661. How did the radio create
a shared cultural experience for all Americans?
In movies…Charlie Chaplin was the best known
actor.
And George Gershwin was the master of
combining elements of Jazz with elements of
classical orchestration.
Lucky Lindy and other heroes
Charles Lindbergh was the first to successfully
complete a non-stop transatlantic flight. Let’s watch
this quick video to see how he was greeted in 1927
in Europe.
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo
across the Atlantic as Lindbergh had done.
Sports heroes such as Bobby Jones and Red Grange
also became big names during this time.
The Lost Generation
F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), Earnest
Hemmingway (A Farewell To Arms, The Sun Also
Rises), and other writers were referred to as the
Lost Generation.
These were poets, writers, and artists that came
of age during the Great War, and in some cases
were seen as damaged. The phrase comes from
Hemmingway.
Bellringer
Please write the questions and your answer.
What was the Harlem Renaissance, and who
were two major figures from the movement?
What did these people contribute? (Poetry,
music, etc.)
Please take a moment to consider your answers.
Key Terms/ People to Know
Section 1: gross national product, Herbert Hoover,
buying on margin, Federal Reserve System, Black
Tuesday
Section 2: hobo, Great Depression, foreclosure,
Hooverville, drought, Dust Bowl, Okie, Woody
Guthrie
Section 3: associative state, Hoover Dam,
cooperative, Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
The Good Times…
• Economically, things were going great!
– Vibrant, strong stock market with a lot of
investment by average Americans
– Profits soared
– Very low national unemployment
– Buying power of consumers had increased due to
welfare capitalism and an abundance of credit.
– Any doubt on behalf of the Federal Reserve is
dismissed by business and banks
…slow down...
Some problems were just below the surface.
– In 1929…
• 5% of Americans controlled 70% of the wealth.
• 95% controlled only 30% of the wealth.
– Amount of money people saved (savings rate) declined
during the 1920s.
– An increase of “buying on margin,” or buying with the
financial aid of stockbrokers, promoted very risky
investing.
• Margin calls protected brokers from losing money, leaving the
investor exposed to the risk.
– Decline in spending by consumers, leading to a large
excess supply of goods
…And All Come Crashing Down
Chain of Events
1928
1929- September 3
Thursday, October 24
Friday, October 25
Monday, October 28
Black Tuesday, October 29
• Market indicators show 50%
increase
• High point in Market, 27% annual
increase
• Nervous investors begin to sell
stocks, creating massive sell-off;
some bankers join together to
buy huge amount to stop a
further sell-off in the next trading
cycle
• Normal trading resumes, some
stocks show gains
• Markets begin to fall once more
• Complete panic as 16 million
shares dumped and some $16
billion are lost in trading
The Times Tells All
“The crowds about the
ticker tapes, like friends
around the bedside of a
stricken friend, reflected in
their faces the tale the
tape was telling. There
were no smiles. There
were no tears either. Just
the camaraderie of fellowsufferers. Everybody
wanted to tell his neighbor
how much he had lost.
Nobody wanted to listen. It
was too repetitious a tale.”
-New York Times, October
30, 1929
A Lifetime of Loss
Anyone who bought stocks in mid-1929 and held onto
them saw most of his or her adult life pass by before
getting back to even.
- Richard M. Salsman, American Economist
“The recent collapse...has no significance…”
With a partner, read pages 678-679.
Describe how the crash effected:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Individuals, particularly margin buyers
Banks
Businesses
Other nations
The Great Depression
With a partner, answer the following questions from pages 681-685.
This will be turned in.
1. What is a bank run, and how did it cause problems for
many Americans?
2. What is foreclosure?
3. Look at the three graphs on page 681. What story do all
three tell when looked at together?
4. What was the unemployment rate at the height of the
Depression?
5. What was a Hooverville, and how did it get its name?
6. Why were many hoboes men?
7. Describe the Dust Bowl, and how did it make the
Depression worse?
8. What were Okies, and how were they treated by many in
other parts of the country?
This Land Is Your Land
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.
As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
I saw above me that endless skyway:
I saw below me that golden valley:
This land was made for you and me.
I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;
And all around me a voice was sounding:
This land was made for you and me.
When the sun came shining, and I was strolling,
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:
This land was made for you and me.
As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.
The End of Hoover
With a partner, read through section 3 (pgs. 687-691) to
answer the following questions. This will be turned in.
1. How did Hoover’s idea of “rugged individualism”
address personal responsibility?
2. What was the associative state, and how did the
Hoover Dam represent that?
3. Why did Hoover think helping cooperatives would
then help farmers?
4. What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
and why was it created?
5. What was the effect of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
6. What was the Bonus Army, and how did Americans
react to its treatment by Hoover and the
government?