1. WHAT WAS THE ‘ROARING
TWENTIES' LIKE?

2. TO WHAT EXTENT WERE AMERICANS
PROSPEROUS IN THE 1920S?
• Introduction:
Explain what the boom was in the 1920s and some of the changes that
occurred in 1920s USA
Paragraph one:
Explain the changes that occurred for the good – including the people
who benefitted from the boom – explain how they benefitted
Paragraph 2:
Explain the negatives of the 1920s – including those that did not benefit-
explain why they did not benefit
Paragraph 3:
Conclude as to how prosperous was USA in the 1920s – refer back to the
original question

3. TASK:
• You need to complete your ‘Roaring Twenties’ Grid
up to and including the section labelled
‘unemployment’
• We have covered this information so it is in your
books but it can also be found on pages 341-351 of
the textbook.

4. WHAT WAS THE ‘ROARING TWENTIES’
LIKE?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTmszW-8NEo
Watch the following video and you need to make as many
notes as possible on what kinds of Entertainment was around
during the 1920s?
Try and get as much detail as possible as you will be feeding
back to the group
Now try and gather even more detail on the topics by reading page
352-3 of the textbook

5. COMMERCIAL TIME!!!!!
• Create a poster on a full page of your exercise
book that summarises/advertises the ‘Roaring
Twenties’

6. HOW DO YOU THINK WROTE THIS
SOURCE?
• ‘Jazzemploys primitive rhythms which excite the
baser human instincts. Jazz music causes
drunkenness. Reason and reflection are lost and the
actions of the persons are directed by the stronger
animal passions.’
• Would you expect this source to be from someone in
their 20s or someone in their 50s?
• Explain why you think this

7. WHAT IS THIS SOURCE SAYING?
• ‘There was never a time in American History when youth had
such a special sense of importance as in the years after the
First World War. There was a gulf between the generations
like a geological fault. Young men who had fought in the
trenches felt they knew a reality their elders could never
imagine. Young girls no longer consciously modelled
themselves on their mothers, whose experience seemed
unusable in the 1920s.’

8. WOMEN IN THE 1920’S
• You need to research what women were like
before WWI as well as in the 1920s
• You then have to create a two-person diagram: 1
of a typical/respectful woman before WWI and next
to her you need to create a diagram of a ‘flapper’
in the 1920s.
• Remember a diagram has labels!!
Vs

9. WERE ‘FLAPPERS’ THE TYPICAL 1920S
WOMEN?
• Create a mind map which details what the typical
American woman was like in the 1920s
• Put in the middle of your mind map ‘The typical
1920s woman’
• Use both pages 354-5 to find out whether the image
of the Flapper is the correct image of women in
1920s USA?