The Roaring Twenties
How do society and government influence each other to change?
Enduring Understandings:
1. Individuals and groups actively challenge social norms, values, and laws.
2. Persuasive argument depends on multiple devices.
3. Identity includes how we see ourselves and how others perceive us.
4.The arts can be tools to comment on society and promote social change.
5. Societies often recognize people as important members based upon certain criteria and viewpoints.
Essential Questions:
1. What role, if any, does the federal government have in ensuring the safety and well being of its citizens?
2. How did scientific and technological advances create a mass consumer culture?
3. What tactics were most effective in bringing about the social, economic, and political reforms of the Progressive Era?
4. How did Americans of this period define progress?
5. Does society cause government to change or does government cause society to change?
The Progressive Era (1890 - 1920) is a general term for a wide range of economic, political, social, and moral reforms. These included efforts to outlaw the sale of alcohol; regulate child labor and sweatshops; scientifically manage natural resources; and Americanize immigrants or restrict immigration altogether. Reformers tried to eliminate corruption in government, regulate business practices, address health hazards, and improve working conditions. They also fought to give the public more direct control over government, direct election of senators, and women's suffrage.
The 1920s was a decade of exciting social changes and cultural conflicts. For many Americans, the growth of cities, the rise of a consumer culture, the explosion of mass entertainment, and the so-called "revolution in morals and manners" represented liberation from the restrictions of the country's Victorian past. Relaxed moral standards, gender roles, hair styles, and dress all changed profoundly during the 1920s. But for many others, the United States seemed to be changing in undesirable ways. The result was a cultural civil war, in which a pluralistic society clashed bitterly over such issues as foreign immigration, evolution, the Ku Klux Klan, prohibition, women’s roles, and race.
1. Individuals and groups actively challenge social norms, values, and laws.
2. Persuasive argument depends on multiple devices.
3. Identity includes how we see ourselves and how others perceive us.
4.The arts can be tools to comment on society and promote social change.
5. Societies often recognize people as important members based upon certain criteria and viewpoints.
Essential Questions:
1. What role, if any, does the federal government have in ensuring the safety and well being of its citizens?
2. How did scientific and technological advances create a mass consumer culture?
3. What tactics were most effective in bringing about the social, economic, and political reforms of the Progressive Era?
4. How did Americans of this period define progress?
5. Does society cause government to change or does government cause society to change?
The Progressive Era (1890 - 1920) is a general term for a wide range of economic, political, social, and moral reforms. These included efforts to outlaw the sale of alcohol; regulate child labor and sweatshops; scientifically manage natural resources; and Americanize immigrants or restrict immigration altogether. Reformers tried to eliminate corruption in government, regulate business practices, address health hazards, and improve working conditions. They also fought to give the public more direct control over government, direct election of senators, and women's suffrage.
The 1920s was a decade of exciting social changes and cultural conflicts. For many Americans, the growth of cities, the rise of a consumer culture, the explosion of mass entertainment, and the so-called "revolution in morals and manners" represented liberation from the restrictions of the country's Victorian past. Relaxed moral standards, gender roles, hair styles, and dress all changed profoundly during the 1920s. But for many others, the United States seemed to be changing in undesirable ways. The result was a cultural civil war, in which a pluralistic society clashed bitterly over such issues as foreign immigration, evolution, the Ku Klux Klan, prohibition, women’s roles, and race.