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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Era of Wonderful Nonsense and Fads

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the fads of the 1920's and the Era of Wonderful Nonsense with numerous pictures, discussion, and lingo.
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Other

Roaring 20s Gangster Links

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a list of links regarding the 1920s most famous gangsters, bootleggers, rumrunners, drug peddlers, and labor racketeers.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: You Decide: The Roaring Twenties?

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about prohibition, prosperity, the role of the automobile and popular culture to decide if the 1920s were a roar or a big yawn. How would you describe the 1920s?
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Website
University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Warren G. Harding: American Franchise

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about American culture and the culture of the Harding presidency in the beginning of the 1920s.
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Graphic
Chicago History Museum

Encyclopedia of Chicago: Gang Map

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the gang territories during the 1920s in Chicago. Shows where each of the gangs had a dominant presence.
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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Outlines: Clash of Cultures

For Students 9th - 10th
Although brief, this discussion of the clash of cultures in the 1920s covers all the reasons for cultural discordance.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Decade That Roared

For Students 5th - 8th
A very brief overview of the decade between the end of World War I and the Great Depression.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Isolationism

For Students 9th - 10th
Facts, definitions, and the reasons for the resumption of Isolationism, the foreign policy adopted by Republican governments in the 1920s.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Twenties 1913 1929

For Students 9th - 10th
How would you describe the 1920s? The decade was called the Roaring Twenties, the beginning of modern America. Take a look at the economic prosperity, prohibition, popular culture, and the invention of the automobile, then you decide, a...
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: The Jazz Age

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information on the Jazz Age, a period in U.S. history associated with exuberance and the introduction of jazz music.