Flipped Classroom: The Twenties

The following introduction from Schmoop.Com to the 1920s is very appropriate:

The 1920s were a decade best remembered for unprecedented affluence, a profusion of fantastic new consumer products, and a vibrant and creative urban cultural scene. But the decade also brought a deep agricultural depression, fueling traditionalist resistance to the encroachments of modernity on rural America.

Why should we care now?

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." That was the opening line of L.P. Hartley's novel The Go-Between. It's also a decent description of how a lot of us feel about many topics in American history. It's not easy for us to understand, for example, exactly why our nineteenth-century forebears got so worked up over issues like tariff policy or the gold standard.

But the 1920s don't seem so foreign at all—more like a goofy reflection of our own times, viewed through a funhouse mirror.

In both eras—the 1920s and today—we see presidents elected because the voters liked their personalities, only to endure administrations mired in corruption and scandal.

In both eras, we see soaring stock markets, providing euphoric investors with incredible financial returns.  Then a tragic drop in stock prices

In both eras, we see a widening gulf between the incomes of the rich and the poor and middle-class.

In both eras, we see a populace enthralled by celebrity, zealously tracking every move of America's sports and entertainment heroes.

In both eras, we see a showdown between the secular values of the marketplace—in which everything is for sale, and sex sells—and the old-fashioned religious principles of fundamentalist Christianity.

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Topic 19-The New Era: the 1920s - Flipped Resources (Chapters 31 & 32)

A. The business of America and the consumer economy:

• America's Economy Booms (Ch. 31)

B. Republican politics: (Ch. 32)

• Harding
• Coolidge
• Hoover

C. The culture of Modernism: science, the arts, and entertainment (Ch. 31)

D. The ongoing struggle for equality: African Americans and women (Ch. 31)

• Arts (Lost Generation) and African American Struggle (UNIA)
• Science
• American Science in the 1920s
• Arts
• The Lost Generation
• Harlem Renaissance #1
• Harlem Renaissance #2
• Entertainment
• Jazz Age, Youth Culture and Flappers
• Popular Music: George Gershwin
• Radios and Movies

E. Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and Prohibition (Ch. 31)

• First Red Scare and Palmer Raids (1920s)
• Nativism and Racism
• Religious Fundamentalism
• The Battle against Evolution #1 (North Carolina)
• The Battle against Evolution #2 (Scopes Trial)
• Prohibition #1
• Prohibition #2
• The Birth of a Nation & Black Protest

Overview of the 1920s