This assignment will enable you to work as individuals as well as a group to discover the historical background for our study of the 1920s. In the process, you should begin to encounter resources for information as well as interconnections of ideas and themes.
Instructions:
Each of you will be assigned TWO of the persons, places or events on the list below. Using available research tools, you should discover the details AND significance of your chronology items. Please make use of the internet and other reliable sources (no Wikipedia) to discover details. You may also find your American History book or reference sources helpful. Use at least 2 dependable sources and record the citations. What is still controversial about that event or person?
Booker T. Washington (Publishing Up From Slavery & “
W.E.B. DuBois (Publishing of Souls of Black Folk, the Niagara Movement)
Marcus Garvey (founding of Universal Negro Improvement Association)
W. D. Fard & Elijah Mohammad (Nation of Islam)
18th Amendment Ratified/Volsted Act Passed/21st Amendment Ratified (all concerning Prohibition)
The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations
Louisiana’s “Grandfather Clause”
Stock Market Crash
Red Summer
The Great Migration
NAACP (founding, Marching down 5th Ave in NYC)
National Urban League
“Shuffle Along” premieres on Broadway
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
New Ku Klux Klan founded c. 1916/ peak membership in mid-1920s
Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar minted 1925/Civil War remembrance
Race Riots in 1919-20, most famously Chicago
Palmer Raids
Origins Act becomes law, 1924- quota system to limit immigration
The Jazz Singer the first blockbuster talkie premieres
Aimee Semple MacPherson and Billy Sunday (evangelists)
Scopes Trial
Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
National Woman's Party/ERA proposed
Lindbergh’s Transatlantic Flight (and baby kidnapping)
Al Capone’s Arrest & Trial