1920s WebQuest

Step 1: Just click on the links Roar or Yawn to continue to the next page at the site, Learner.org. Answer the following questions as you view the information.

(1) How does Hollywood portray the 1920s?

(2) Workers had more money to spend in the 1920s. What were they spending it on?

(3) What was the 18th Amendment? How did people find ways to still drink?

(4) List some of the ways popular culture evolved in the 1920s.

(4) What happened to women in 1920? What is a flapper?

(5) What were some of the effects of the invention of the automobile?

Step 2: Write 5 Words to describe a flapper:

Step 3: History of Jazz:

7. Which city was Lois Armstrong from?

8. What city is considered to be the birthplace of Jazz?

9. Name 2 other Jazz musicians of the 1920’s.

10. Name 2 locations in New York City that were popular Jazz clubs.

11. What dance crazy was popular during the 1920’s?

Step 4: DuBois and Washington

1. What kind of philosophy did Washington preach? What class of people were more likely to support Washington? Why?

2. What kind of philosophy did DuBois preach? What class of people were more likely to support DuBois? Why?

3. What was the major disagreement between Washington and DuBois? Which was the more conservative? Which was more liberal?

4. Which of these two approaches was more prevalent in the Civil Rights movement?

Step 5: Harlem Renaissance

  1. What was the name given to the mass movement of African Americans to the North starting in 1890?
  1. Which neighborhood did the largest number of migrants move to?

3. List at LEAST 5 major authors, musicians, or political leaders associated with this movement.

Part 6: POETS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

6. Which writers did Hughes cite as his earliest influences?

7. What methods was Hughes among the first to use in his poetry?

1920’s Culture

Name 4 inventions of the 1920’s

Scopes Background Information

1. What was the Scopes Monkey Trail about?

2. What were the key issues?

3. What brought about the trail?

4. Why did some citizens (of the town where the trail was held) want it to happen in their in their town?

5. Who were some of the key players in the trail?

6. What role did John Scopes play? What was he on trail for?

7. How did Darrow lessen the integrity of Bryan?

8. Was Scopes found guilty? If so, what was his punishment?