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Critical Thinking
Questions for life in the 1920’s
Instructions: After looking at the slides answer the
following questions.
- How
do the actions of these women represent a break from the past? Do you think
this is a positive or negative social change for women? Explain.
- What
does this photograph suggest to you about the difficulty of enforcing
Prohibition? Why do you think the 18th amendment was added to the Constitution
in the first place? What happens to laws which are unenforceable?
- Why
did sports become so commercialized in the 1920’s? Do you think the
commercialization of sports helped or hurt individual athletes? Explain.
What about sports in general? Explain.
- How
does this advertisement differ from and/or resemble present day advertisements?
Why did consumerism become such a strong part of American society in the
1920’s?
- Why
did Charlie Chaplin become a star in the 1920’s? How did the advent of
talking movies change the motion picture industry?
- Why
were people in the United States during the 1920’s so quick to fall in
love the automobile as a form of transportation? What conveniences did the
auto bring? What problems did the auto create?
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