The Roaring 20s

The Roaring 20s
Document-Based Question
The Main Ideas
The Roaring 20s was a time of social opportunity.
The Roaring 20s was a time of social conflict.
Overview of the Roaring 20s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjxpYsTjNPk
1920s Document Based Question
Many people living in the 1920s felt that they were living in
an exciting time. They called it the “Roaring Twenties”.
Flush with their successes from World War I, Americans
looked forward …
Langston Hughes
Sacco and Vanzetti
Prohibition
Women’s Fashion
KKK
Al Smith
Anti-Lynching
Consumer Goods
Now you decide …
Were the Roaring 20s a time of
social opportunity
or a time of
social conflict?