The Roaring Twenties:
A Time of Great Change
New Amendments
16th Amendment, 1913- Legalizes income
tax
17th Amendment, 1913- People elect
senators directly
18th Amendment, 1919- Prohibition
19th Amendment, 1920- Women given the
right to vote
Let the Good Times Roll!
Good economic times led to:
Buying modern goods (cars, radios, tractors, trips,
refrigerators, vacuums)
New infrastructure (highways, telephone lines,
indoor plumbing, electrification)
Better educational opportunities
Pop Culture- Women cut their hair and wore
shorter dresses, fast paced dances, new fads
The Changing 1920s
Pop Culture- Women cut their hair and
wore shorter dresses, fast paced dances,
new fads
Prohibition
Leads to:
Gangsters who sold alcohol illegally (like
Al Capone)
Moonshiners in the South (their fast
cars led to racing and NASCAR)
Speakeasies, flappers, women’s advances
Development of jazz
The Changing 1920’s
The Red Scare- Fear of Communism coming to
America.
Immigrants- Anti German/ Eastern European
hysteria: Immigrants seen as cheap labor taking jobs.
Laws passed to limit immigration. KKK includes
Catholics as groups to be hated.
The Stock Market- People invested in stocks to
build vast fortunes. Prosperity ends in 1929 when
the market crashes.
Southern Problems
The boll weevil destroys the cotton crop (up
to 75% in some cases).
Major drought in 1925.
Number of farms drops dramatically and
millions of blacks move North to find work,
causing a major migration.
Depression starts much earlier in the
South.
1920’s Act It Out!
Each group will receive an envelope with their
topic- it will be some kind of change that took
place in the 1920’s.
Your group must create a short skit (1-2 mins) to
act out your change.
Each group must turn in a sheet of paper with the
following information: names of group members,
what your topic (your change) is, and a brief
description of what you will do in your skit.
Your group will act out your skit for the class, and
the class will try to guess which change your
group has.
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