Lesson Plans for WWI and Twenties & Thirties 
   WWI http://www.mce.k12tn.net/ww1/world_war1.htm
   Twenties and Thirties http://www.mce.k12tn.net/1920/20-30.htm

• The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)

  • Recognize people who contributed to reform in Tennessee and American society (i.e., Samuel Gompers; Jane Addams; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. Austin Peay; and Anne Dallas Dudley).

  • Interpret timelines

  • Differentiate between an economic boom and bust.

  • Recognize the concept of buying on credit.

  • Recognize how Americans used credit/installment plans to purchase consumer goods in the 1920's (i.e., vacuum cleaners, washing machines, radios, and other home appliances).

  • Analyze how environmental changes and crisis affected the economy across the nation in the 1930's (i.e., Dust Bowl, Black Tuesday, Great Depression, and Hoovervilles).

  • Interpret economic issues as expressed in maps, tables, diagrams, and charts (i.e., automobile sales, unemployment rates, or airplane production).

  • Differentiate between needs and wants on a personal and national level.

  • Recognize the rights that workers fought for in the late 1800’s (i.e., wages, hours, insurance, and working conditions).

Days 1-2 Famous Reformists

Samuel Gompers - one of the founders of the American Federation of Labor in 1886

http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/index.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAgompers.htm

http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/gompers.htm

• born on January 26, 1850
• parents were poor immigrant Jews from Holland
• became a cigar maker
• family emigrated to America in 1863 - made cigars in New York
• By 1885 elected president of Cigar Makers Union Local 144
• After World War I attended the Versailles Treaty negotiations, where he was instrumental in the creation of the International Labor Organization (ILO) under the League of Nations.

Jane Addams

http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/adda-jan.htm

http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/ja_bio.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html

• Born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860
• founded the Hull-House in Chicago in 1889
  • provided services for the neighborhood
    •  kindergarten and daycare facilities for children of working mothers
    • an employment bureau
    • an art gallery
    • libraries
    • music and art classes
• Hull-House  started several reform movements
  • Immigrants' Protective League
  • The Juvenile Protective Association, the first juvenile court in the nation
  • a Juvenile Psychopathic Clinic (later called the Institute for Juvenile Research).
• With Federal Children's Bureau in 1912 and the passage of a federal child labor law in 1916, the Hull-House reformers saw their efforts expanded to the national level.
• in 1931 first American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
   

Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/

http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/taverna/98/king.htm

• January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968
• In 1954 became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama
• executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• in December 1955 became leader in first great Negro nonviolent demonstration, the bus boycott - lasted 382 days.
• 1957 elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over 2500 times
• wrote five books as well as numerous articles
• directed peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream",
• arrested twenty times and assaulted at least 4 times;
• awarded five honorary degrees
• named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963
• became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure
• At 35 the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize
• On April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
   

 Gov. Austin Peay

http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/people/austin_peay

http://tennessee.gov/sos/bluebook/online/pastgov.pdf (Page 13)

• governor of Tennessee from 1923-1927
• created the state department for the highway - Tennessee went from 244 miles of paved roads to over 4000 miles
• reorganized government into 8 bureaus
• purchased the Great Smoky Mountain Park from lumber companies
• passed bill to guarantee 8 months of school

• only governor to have died in office, on October 2, 1927

Anne Dallas Dudley

http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/people/anne_dudley

http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=51

• wealthy Nashville woman
• leaders in the movement to give women the right to vote
• she led a march of 2,000 women from downtown Nashville to Centennial Park -- the first suffrage parade in the South, in May 1914
•  in 1920, when Tennessee became the 36^th state to ratify the amendment to the U. S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote.

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Day 3 Roaring 20's

Text page 25 (Example - Mining towns/Ghost towns )

Boom

• high demand
• inflation increases
• unemployment falls
• national income accelerates

Bust

• demand is low
• inflation decreases
• unemployment rises
• national income falls

Roaring 20's

Credit/Installments (text p. 307) http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM37&page=teacher

Automobile Chart (1920-1929) p. 308

Needs and Wants

Days  4-5 Great Depression (text p. 313-316)

Unemployment Chart (1929-1945)  (text p. 317)

Black Tuesday

Hooversville (text p. 315)

Day 6

Airplane Production (1937-1945) (text p. 328)

Review Rights of Workers http://www.mce.k12tn.net/industrial_nation/struggle_for_rights_of_workers2.htm