Ms.

Baldino

5th Grade Social Studies

Students will identify the different aspects of life during

the 1920s and 1930s.
Students will recognize the causes and effect of the
changing life in America.
Students will draw connections between the aftermath
of WW1 and life in America during the 1920s and
1930s.
Students will create a story about how at least 5-7 of
these events impacted the life of a fictional character
that they make up.
SC.5-4. Standard/CourseUnited States Studies: 1865 to the
Present

SC Social Studies 5-4.1

SC Social Studies 5-4.2

SC Social Studies 5-4.3

What were the effects of the end of World War 1

on America?
What was the standard of living like?
What was entertainment and transportation like?
What is the 19th Amendment?
What is the Great Migration?
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
How and why was there racial and ethnic
conflict?
What is the Great Depression?
What is Prohibition?
What is the Dust Bowl?
What is the New Deal?

19th Amendment: Ratified on August 18, 1920, it

was an amendment in the U.S. Constitution that
granted American women the right to votea
right known as woman suffrage.

The Great Migration: the movement of 6 million

African-Americans out of the rural Southern
United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest,
and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970.

Prohibition: a nationwide constitutional ban in

the United States on the production, importation,
transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages
that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.

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Harlem Renaissance: the name given to the cultural,

social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem
between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s.
During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing
black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and
scholars.
The Great Depression: the economic crisis and period of
low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly
beginning with the stock-market crash in October of 1929
(Black Tuesday), and continuing through most of the 1930s.

The New Deal: a series of social liberal programs enacted

in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that
came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as
well as presidential executive orders during the first term
(19331937) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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