The 1920's is designed to supplement your students' study of the 19191929 decade.
The unit is made up of 24 exercises that together form a mosaic of American life during these years. Each exercise includes reproductions of documents from the National Archives and suggests classroom activities based on these documents. It also includes a booklet containing a teachers guide plus a set of reproductions of original documents. A CD-ROM contains exercise worksheets and digital images of original documents including personal letters, news clippings, photographs, graphs, maps, and telegrams which reflect a wide range of social, political, economic, and cultural themes of the decade as seen from the points of view of citizens who corresponded with the federal government. Students practice the historian's skills as they complete exercises using these documents to gather information, identify points of view, weigh evidence, form hypotheses, and draw conclusions.
Other units comprising the Teaching With Documents series are:
The Constitution: Evolution of a Government
The Bill of Rights: Evolution of Personal Liberties
The United States Expands West: 1785-1842
Westward Expansion: 1842-1912
The Civil War: Soldiers and Civilians
The Progressive Years: 1898-1917
World War I: The Home Front
The Great Depression and The New Deal
World War II: The Home Front
The United States At War: 1944
The Truman Years: 1945-1953
Peace and Prosperity: 1953-1961
