Roaring 1920s Q's:
1. Who coined the term “The Jazz Age” and what did it mean? F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author who wrote the Great Gatsby. He, like many, noticed that Jazz Music dominated the culture of the 1920s. It was African-American jazz that dominated the nightclubs and it was an age where the jazz music reflected the culture: fun and relaxing...
2. What were some of the effects of the jazz club/Jazz Age and how do we still see its impact day?
The Jazz Age/club scene created a "night life" for the first time. People went out to clubs, shows, and partied! They let loose, they enjoyed themselves in clubs where they danced and drank. Don't we have a similar lifestyle? Today, we enjoy our social networks and our social culture. Today, we enjoy going to sporting events at night, seeing movies, going to concerts, and we enjoy living a "fun" and social life. The 1920s was the first decade to give us this!
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald called it a time when “the parties were bigger, the pace was faster, the buildings were higher, the morals looser” What do you think Fitzgerald meant by this?
Kind of like the answer before, the parties lasted longer and were extravagant! People were moving faster because they had automobiles, machines that made life and work easier, so this gave them more time to goof off and have fun! Skyscrapers were built at an astonishing rate making the urban areas even taller and bigger and because of the flapper girls and prohibition (even though no one followed it) people let loose and enjoyed themselves a little more. People illegally drank alcohol, visited nightclubs, and were a little more sexually promiscuous which was a little "looser" on the lifestyle than a rigid one before...
Kind of like the answer before, the parties lasted longer and were extravagant! People were moving faster because they had automobiles, machines that made life and work easier, so this gave them more time to goof off and have fun! Skyscrapers were built at an astonishing rate making the urban areas even taller and bigger and because of the flapper girls and prohibition (even though no one followed it) people let loose and enjoyed themselves a little more. People illegally drank alcohol, visited nightclubs, and were a little more sexually promiscuous which was a little "looser" on the lifestyle than a rigid one before...
4. After reading about Al Capone and watching the video in that section (Beer Wars) what type of person was Al Capone and how did the Beer Wars change the cities of America? Do you think Al Capone did more good than bad?
Kinda funny to think a "gangster" is a good guy, huh? Well, Capone used to dress up as Santa Clause and give out toys to kids. He used to give homeless people food and shelter. He even opened up the largest soup kitchen in Chicago during the Depression! I mean, what gangster feeds and shelters the homeless? Oh wait, he was also killing off his rivals who distributed alcohol on his turf. I guess he wasn't that nice of a guy after all...Whatever, I still dig him!
5. If you dig deep and think about it, we live in a Roaring Twenties age as well. After reading ALL about the Roaring Twenties, from music, consumerism, the car, lifestyle, sports, etc… How do we live a Roaring Twenties lifestyle?
Wow, this is a heavy one isn't it? -- Well, we still have a life of leisure. We still go out at night. We still listen to music that makes us want to dance and let loose. We still party! We still live in a consumerist society. We all still go out and buy goods to make life easier and we sometimes buy those items with credit. We pretty much live like they did in the 1920s, just 90 years later...
Great Depression Q's to answer in your notes please. We'll talk about this when I get back...
1. What were three things that lead to the Great Depression?
2. What was the worst unemployment rate of the Depression? What is the unemployment rate now? (You gotta look that up!)
3. What is a Hooverville and after looking at those pictures of Hoovervilles, can you believe that this even happened?
4. What were the three R's that FDR promised when he became president?
5. What is a "fireside chat?"
6. Do you think the New Deal was good or bad based off that paragraph where it examines both sides?
7. Take a look at the purple-fonted programs of the New Deal...We're gonna look at this when I get back...
Kinda funny to think a "gangster" is a good guy, huh? Well, Capone used to dress up as Santa Clause and give out toys to kids. He used to give homeless people food and shelter. He even opened up the largest soup kitchen in Chicago during the Depression! I mean, what gangster feeds and shelters the homeless? Oh wait, he was also killing off his rivals who distributed alcohol on his turf. I guess he wasn't that nice of a guy after all...Whatever, I still dig him!
5. If you dig deep and think about it, we live in a Roaring Twenties age as well. After reading ALL about the Roaring Twenties, from music, consumerism, the car, lifestyle, sports, etc… How do we live a Roaring Twenties lifestyle?
Wow, this is a heavy one isn't it? -- Well, we still have a life of leisure. We still go out at night. We still listen to music that makes us want to dance and let loose. We still party! We still live in a consumerist society. We all still go out and buy goods to make life easier and we sometimes buy those items with credit. We pretty much live like they did in the 1920s, just 90 years later...
Great Depression Q's to answer in your notes please. We'll talk about this when I get back...
1. What were three things that lead to the Great Depression?
2. What was the worst unemployment rate of the Depression? What is the unemployment rate now? (You gotta look that up!)
3. What is a Hooverville and after looking at those pictures of Hoovervilles, can you believe that this even happened?
4. What were the three R's that FDR promised when he became president?
5. What is a "fireside chat?"
6. Do you think the New Deal was good or bad based off that paragraph where it examines both sides?
7. Take a look at the purple-fonted programs of the New Deal...We're gonna look at this when I get back...