1. Chapter 9
Classroom Activities

2. The Red Scare & Immigration

3. Activity #1 Political Cartoon Analysis
Look at the political cartoon on page 272
Read the captions that discuss the symbolism in this cartoon.
What do you think the title “Put Them Out and Keep Them Out” means?
Why do you think the artist showed the character peeking out from under the American flag?

4. Activity #2 Primary Source Analysis
Read the About the Source box on the primary source.
As you read the primary source, try to define the bold terms using the context of the reading.
Answer the three comprehension questions at the end of the reading.

5. Activity #3 Graph Activity
Look at the graph on page 274
How did immigration quotas of the 1920s change the pattern of European immigration?

6. Activity #4 Sacco & Vanzetti Video Clip
As you watch the following video clip, write down reasons why you think the Sacco & Vanzetti case is relevant to American society today.

7. Activity #5 Vocabulary Activity
Use the following six vocabulary terms to construct a paragraph that summarizes attitudes towards immigrants and labor movements in the 1920s.
Bolshevik communism Red Scare
Mitchell Palmer Palmer Raids Alien
Anarchist Sacco & Vanzetti

8. Henry Ford & the New Economy

9. Activity #1 Graphic Interpretation
Look at the mages on page 278.
Mass production of the automobile affected Americans’ lives in many ways.
Create a list ways that life changed for Americans based on these images.
Choose two items from your list to add to the classroom list.

10. Activity #2 Primary Source Analysis

11. Activity #2 Primary Source Analysis
What problems do you think the increasingly widespread use of automobiles might have posed for cities in the early 1920s?
How do you think this picture would have differed from a picture taken of the same area in Chicago 20 years earlier?

12. Activity #3 Biography Study
Read the Why He Made History Box at the top of the page
Read the biography of Alfred P. Sloan
Answer the two comprehension questions after the reading
Complete the extension activity by explaining why corporate buyouts might be good for business and why corporate buyouts might be bad for business.

13. Activity #4 Map Activity
Follow the directions to color code the map based on population change
Using the map, answer the analysis questions

14. Shifting Values

15. Flappers

16. Flappers

17. Activity #1 Graphic Analysis
Look at the two images on page 295.
List the differences between the two images.
How do these differences reflect changing societal values?

18. Activity #2 Biography Reading
Read the Why She Made History box.
Read the biography of Alice Paul.
Answer the two comprehension questions.
Complete the extension activity at the bottom of the page.
Is Alice Paul an important historical figure? Why or why not?

19. Activity #3 Prohibition Video
View the following video on Prohibition
twenties/videos#america-goes-dry-with-prohibition
As you watch, answer the following questions:
Why did people want to ban alcohol?
What amendment banned alcohol?
Why did Prohibition eventually end?

20. Activity #4 Political Cartoon Analysis
View the following political cartoons about the Scopes Monkey Trial.
What is each artist trying to say?

24. Activity #5 Vocabulary Activity
Choose the term in each group that does not belong. Explain why that term does not fit with the others.
Rural speakeasy Prohibition fundamentalism
women flapper Bible makeup
bootlegger evolution Prohibition Volstead Act
values alcohol speakeasy science

25. The Harlem Renaissance & 1920s Pop Culture

26. Activity #1 Graphic Organizer
It was difficult for young adult sharecroppers living in the South during the early 1900s to make a living from the land.
Family and friends sent copies of “want ads” from urban areas that sounded wonderful.
Complete the following graphic organizer listing advantages and disadvantages of leaving the South to pursue a job in the North.

27. Activity #1 Graphic Organizer
Advantages to leaving the South
Disadvantages to leaving the South 1. 2. 3.

28. Activity #1 Graphic Organizer
Advantages to leaving the South
Disadvantages to leaving the South
Better life
2. escape from poverty
3. Escape segregation
Unfamiliar place
Leaving family
Job might not be available

29. Activity #2 Visual Analysis
Look at the images on page 306.
How many art forms are represented in these pictures?
How do you think this flourishing of the arts affected African Americans in general?

30. Activity #3 Biography Reading
Read the box Why They Made History.
Read the biographies of Bessie Smith & Duke Ellington
Answer the two comprehension questions.

31. Activity #4 Harlem Renaissance Listening Activity
View the video clip below.
Write down your impressions of the music that you hear.

32. Activity #5 Primary Source Analysis
Read the About the Source box at the top of the page.
As you read, try to create definitions for the bold words using the context of the reading.
Answer the three comprehension questions.

33. Activity #6 Primary Source Viewing
View Steamboat Willie and discuss.

34. Activity #7 Primary Source Analysis
Read the excerpt of The Great Gatsby on page 313.
Write down the details that indicate showy excess at the party.
What message is Fitzgerald conveying about the Jazz Age?

35. The Great Crash

36. Activity #1 Graphic Organizer
Create a list of economic indicators that the economy was prospering in the 1920s.
Then create a list of the warning signs showing there were problems in the economy.

37. Activity #1 Graphic Organizer
PROSPERITY:
PROBLEMS: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

38. Activity #1 Graphic Organizer
PROSPERITY
PROBLEMS
1. Gross national product rose 30%
2. Explosive growth of the auto industry
3. Corporate profits swelled
4. Low unemployment
Workers purchased new products
Stock market performance
Few people benefited from the business boom
Many people used credit to buy goods
Buying fell
Stocks sold on margin