Current Studies

Social, Economic, and Technological Changes of the Early Twentieth Century


  1. Results of improved transportation
  1. Invention of the airplane
  1. Use of the assembly line
IV.  Communication changes
  1. Ways electrification changed American life
VI.  Results of Prohibition
VII.  Great Migration North
VIII. Cultural climate of the 1920's/1930's
IX.  Harlem Renaissance
  1. Causes of the Great Depression
XI.  Impact on Americans (GD)
XII.  Major features of the New Deal


TEXTBOOK:  Why We Remember
                           Chapters 10-11
RESOURCES: 
  1. Twenties Slang
  2. We do not think we'll ever drink,
        Whiskey or gin, brandy or rum,
         Or anything that'll make drunk come
  1. Cartoonists View of Prohibition
  2. The Bull or Bear Market Game
  3. U.S. News Illustrated
  4. Orville and Wilbur Wright (Play)

Can you tell me who this is a picture of?  For that matter, can you identify all of the pictures on this site?  If you can, I will give you extra credit for each correct answer.

"The test of our progress… is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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