The Roaring 20's - Google Slides Powerpoint

This unit bundles student expectations that focus on the political, economic, social, and cultural changes taking place during the 1920s, sometimes referred to as the Roaring Twenties. Following the end of the First World War, Americans weathered a temporary economic depression moving from a wartime economy to a peacetime economy from 1919-1921. The remainder of the decade was characterized by unprecedented economic prosperity, supported by the pro-business policies of three presidential administrations. This prosperity was coupled with isolationist foreign policies, and heightened fears of communists, immigrants, and anarchists that manifested in the rise of nativism. The time period was also characterized by changing social values which threatened traditional values, as evidence by prohibition and the Scopes Trial. During the 1920s, African Americans migrated in large numbers to northern cities as a flourishing of African American culture reached a pinnacle with the Harlem Renaissance. The crash of the stock market in 1929 brought the economic prosperity of the decade to an end, but the legacy of culture change continued.