1. Interactive Lesson By Miss Setchell
Interactive Lesson
By Miss Setchell
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2. Introduction
Between the years of 1900 and 1919, many events took place. There were also many people who helped shape these events. These people were involved with advances in technology and breakthroughs within politics. These things allowed people to enter the roaring 20’s with much knowledge and excitement.

3. Important Events
Teddy bears named after President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt.
Henry Ford's Model T car went on sale for $850.
French scientist named Georges Claude applied an electrical charge to a tube filled with neon gas and created the Neon light.
The Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage over 1,500 drown.
World War I began.
Mr. Peanut, a schoolboy's wining contest entry, became the symbol for Planter's Nut & Chocolate Company.
US entered WWI and sends the first troops to France.
th Amendment adopted (Prohibition).

4. Important People Booker T Washington William duBois Theodore Roosevelt
The Wright Brothers

5. Advances inTechnology
1900 – The modern day escalator is created
1902 – Air conditioning is invented
King Gillette patents the “safety razor”
1906 – William Kellogg created cornflakes
1908 – Cellophane (plastic wrap) is created
1913 – The modern day zipper is invented
1919 – The pop-up toaster is created

6. Politics 1900 – Baseball is segregated
1901 – End of William McKinley’s presidency
1901 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
1904 – Louisiana Purchase Exposition
1909 – William Howard Taft is elected president
1913 – Woodrow Wilson becomes president

7. Booker T. Washington
In 1900 Washington helped establish the National Negro Business League.
Washington argued that it was the role of blacks to serve whites.
Those who objected this view wanted social equality.

8. W. E. B. duBois
William Edward Burghardt DuBois was one of this country's most distinguished educators.
In 1895 he was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Founder of the NAACP

9. Theodore Roosevelt
In 1904 Roosevelt was elected to a full term as president.
Roosevelt was an historian, a biographer, a statesman, a hunter, a naturalist, and a public speaker.
In 1919, at the age of sixty, he died in his sleep.

10. The Wright Brothers
Made an aircraft, including an engine, in 1903 and made the first controlled, sustained powered flights on December 17 of that year.
They made the first public demonstrations of this machine to a group of Dayton residents on October 4, 1905.
The Wright brothers organized a factory to manufacture airplanes in 1909.

11. First powered plane built by the Wright brothers in 1903.

12. The Wright Brothers’ first flight demonstration in 1905.

13. Factory where Wright brother planes were produced.

14. President Theodore Roosevelt

15. William duBois as a teacher.

16. NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
a civil rights organization for ethnic minorities in the united States
Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal liberty given to all citizens by law.
African Americans wanted the same civil rights that all white people were given.

17. The Teddy Bear
1900’s
2000’s

18. Henry Ford’s Model T 1908

19. Neon Light

20. Sinking of the Titanic

21. WWI begins when Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated.
The Start of WWI
WWI begins when Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated.

22. Mr. Peanut

23. US enters WWI

24. Prohibition
Prohibition: drinking alcohol is against the law.

25. Modern Day Escalator

26. Air Conditioning

27. Gillette Safety Razor

28. Kellogg’s Cornflakes

29. Cellophane

30. Modern Day Zipper

31. Pop-Up Toaster
2006
1919

32. Segregation within Baseball

33. William McKinley

34. Theodore Roosevelt

35. William Howard Taft

36. Louisiana Purchase Exposition

37. Woodrow Wilson