Lesson 1 "Americans Want to Return to Normal Times"

Turn to Page 468 analyze the timeline at the bottom of the page and read the introduction to the chapter.

Scan Pages 469-472; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 469-472 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 469-472.

Read Pages 469-472 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 472? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 1 "Americans Want to Return to Normal Times" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

Lesson 1 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Association - a group working together on a common cause.

Decade - a period of ten years.

Heroics - bravery well beyond what is needed.

Landslide - a majority of votes for one side.

Solution - The Answer to problems

Emotion - Feelings people express

Fraud - A lie or false act to steal money or something of value.

Section Review Answers

1. The Nineteenth Amendment gave all American women the right to vote.
2. Warren G. Harding was elected President in 1920.
3. The Emergency Quota Act limited immigration to the United States.
4. The National Woman Suffrage Association wanted to give women the right to vote.
5. President Coolidge supported the business community.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you explain what the Nineteenth Amendment was?

Are you able to describe some problems in the Harding Administration?

Are you able to list things Coolidge did as President?

Lesson 2 "Society Changes: Fords, Flappers, and Radios"

Scan Pages 473-476; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 473-476 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 473-476.

Read Pages 473-476 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 476? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 2 "Society Changes: Fords, Flappers, and Radios" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

Lesson 2 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Assembly line - a process by which a line of workers assemble something piece by piece until it is complete.

Mobile - Having the ability to travel.

Flapper - young woman in the 1920s who cut her hair short, wore skirts cut above her knees, and pointed her lips bright red.

Generation - people who live in the same time period and are about the same age

Suburb - community built outside of cities.

Section Review Answers

1. Some farmers looked for city jobs after the war because crops were in less demand and prices fell.
2. Ford used the assembly-line process to make the Model T.
3. Farmers used the automobile to plow fields, run water pumps, and haul hay; most other people used it for traveling.
4. Flappers were women who cut their hair short, war skirts cut above their knees, and painted their lips bright red.
5. Radios changed the way of life by providing news and entertainment.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you explain how the automobile changed life in America?

Are you able to describe ways women became more independent?

Can you tell what radio brought into the American home?

Lesson 3 "The Spirit of the Jazz Age"

Scan Pages 477-479; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 477-479 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 477-479.

Read Pages 477-479 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 479? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 3 "The Spirit of the Jazz Age" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

Lesson 3 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Composer - one who writes music

Energetic - full of energy

Improvise - to make up as you go along

Spiritual - a religious song

Symphony - a long, complex musical piece.

Section Review Answers

1. Jazz started in the South.
2. Younger people were responsible for beginning the new music and dance styles of the 1920s.
3. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald showed the unhappy life of a wealthy, popular man who was once a poor farm boy.
4. John Dos Passos wrote a story about the sadness of men after their return from the Great War.
5. The Harlem Renaissance focused on African-American pride.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you describe the growth of jazz as a musical form?

Are you able to explain how dance changed?

Can you identify writers of the period?

Are you able to explain what the Harlem Renaissance was?

Lesson 4 "Social Problems in the 1920s"

Scan Pages 480-481; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 480-481 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles and questions in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 480-481.

Read Pages 480-481 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 481? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 4 "Social Problems in the 1920s" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

Lesson 4 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Communist - a person who believes in a form of government that eliminates private property.

Bootlegger - Someone who made or sold alcohol illegally during Prohibition

Probation - the ban on making or selling alcohol

Speakeasy - a place where liquor was sold illegally during Prohibition.

Section Review Answers

1. The Eighteenth Amendment made it against the law to sell alcohol in the United States.
2. Prohibition was the name for the ban on alcohol.
3. A person who made and sold alcohol during Prohibition was called a bootlegger.
4. Liquor was sold illegally at places called speakeasies.
5. The Twenty-First Amendment repealed Prohibition.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you describe what groups faced discrimination?

Are you able to tell what Prohibition was and how it caused problems?

Lesson 5 "American Confidence Rises and Falls"

Scan Pages 482-483; focus on the gray boxes, which contain the key vocabulary terms.

Scan Pages 482-483 for pictures and diagrams, read each of the captions.

Scan for an read the short articles and questions in the colored boxes that you find on Pages 482-483.

Read Pages 482-483 (take notes of important ideas)

Do you know the answers to the questions on page 483? (See Key Points below for help)

Do you know the vocabulary words? (See Key Points below for help)

Take the quiz on Lesson 4 "American Confidence Rises and Falls" (You may use the book, notes and Key Points for help on the quizzes. NOT ON TESTS!)

Review answers on the quiz and print it out. This will be very useful when you are studying for the test.

Lesson 5 Key Points

Vocabulary Terms

Solo - Done by one person

Stock market - a market for the buying and selling of company stock.

Soup house - place where the poor could get food.

Section Review Answers

1. Americans liked Lindbergh because of his solo flight across the Atlantic and because he was a symbol for America.
2. The stock market is a market for the buying and selling of company stock.
3. Soup houses were places where the poor could get food.
4. The stock market crashed because stock prices dropped sharply and there were more sellers than buyers.
5. The Great Depression was a time of great financial struggle, when businesses failed and people lost their jobs.

Did you learn these Objectives?

Can you explain what Lindbergh did?

Are you able to tell what the stock market crash was?

 Preparing for Chapter 24 Test

Turn to Page 484 and read the article, "James Weldon Johnson".

Turn to Page 485 and read the Chapter 24 summary.

On page 486-487 you will find the Chapter 24 review, complete the review.

Check your answers with those in the Key Points.

Take the Chapter 24 Test "The Roaring Twenties"

Review the answers then print the results for your records.

Chapter 24 Review answers

1. radio
2. suffrage
3. Warren Harding
4. jazz
5. Calvin Coolidge
6. Teapot Dome
7. stock market
8. Edith Wharton
9. presidential election
10. Charles Lindbergh
11. Langston Hughes
12. bootleggers
13. Model T

The Comprehension: Understanding Main Ideas

1. The decade was called the "Roaring Twenties" because there were so many things happening during the decade. People lived better and faster lives. The economy was booming through most of the decade. Many developments such as the Model T and the radio made people's lives more interesting. It was a period of great excitement for many people.
2. The Nineteenth Amendment allowed women to vote, women began working out of the home more than in the past, young women began to express themselves in new ways, for example, the flapper.
3. Prohibition was a period of time between the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendment when it was illegal to by or sell alcohol in America. Many people broke the law, and organized crime made millions of dollars through the sal and distribution of illegal alcohol.
4. There were many social and cultural developments during the 1920s including commercial radio, the Mode T Ford, the telephone, jazz music, women's suffrage, the Harlem Renaissance, Prohibition, new dances, etc.
5. Stocks had been overprice for many years. At the time of the crash, many more people wanted to sell than wanted to buy.

Congratulations you finished the Chapter 24!!