The 1920s

GUIDING QUESTION:

Two words historians use to describe the 1920s are “normalcy” and “roaring” – In what ways are these monikers accurate or not?

1920s Excerpt Project:

Select 3 of the following figures who came to prominence in the 1920s (you may convince me of someone else on your own if you wish):

Mitchell Palmer
Henry Ford
Al Capone
Clarence Darrow
Margaret Sanger
Babe Ruth
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
T.S. Elliot
Ezra Pound
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemmingway
William Faulkner
Texas Guinan
Hiram Wesley Evans
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
“Amos ‘n’ Andy”
Early Hollywood Figures (your choice, of course)
Marcus Garvey
Sinclair Lewis
Frank Lloyd Wright

and…

• Research, collect, and communicate an excerpt from one of their “works”. The excerpt can be written, audio, visual/video etc... BE CREATIVE... do not simply select the first quote you come across... connect /reflect the time period!

• Explain its significance to the time period (How does it reflect the 1920s? Does it uphold or breakdown traditional views of the period? Other conclusions).

Wilson, the 14 Points, and Versailles

Study the timeline below. Given what you already know of the time period, why do you think it was so difficult for Wilson to achieve passage of his 14 Points through the Senate? What domestic and world events might have affected his ability to convince the Senate of its gravitas and worth to America? Answer in a detailed paragraph or two.
TIMELINE OF EVENTS

1918: Wilson's Peace Proposal, Fourteen Points.

November 1918: Midterm Elections. Wilson makes a partisan appeal for a Democratic congress to ensure support for his foreign policies.


5 November 1918: Democrats lose control of both houses of congress.


December 1918: Wilson arrives in Paris without a single prominent Republican in the delegations.


14 February 1919: Lincoln reports to the plenary session with the finished draft of the League Covenant.


April 1919: Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and thirty-nine senators declare that the covenant of the League is unacceptable.


8 July 1919: Wilson returns home with the Versailles Treaty and calls on the Senate to accept "This Great Duty."


August 1919: Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, resorts to delay tactics and lengthy hearings. He personally dislikes Wilson.


September 1919: Wilson, to garner support for his foreign policies, embarks on a nation-wide speaking tour.


25 September 1919: Wilson's doctor cancels Wilson's tour and Wilson is hurried back to Washington.


2 October 1919: Wilson suffers a severe stroke and paralysis.


7-19 November 1919: The Senate adopts fourteen of Lodge's reservations concerning the Treaty of Versailles, most having to do with the League.


December 1919: The Senate votes to reconsider.


January, February 1920: Wilson remains adamant that there are to be no reservations.


March 1920: Twenty-one Democrats abandon Wilson's ship and join the reservationists. Treaty still not ratified.


20 May 1920: Congress ends the war by joint resolution.


2 July 1921: Harding is now president. Another joint resolution declares the state of war with Austria and German over.

I CAN HAEV LYNKZ!!

WWI at Home

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