Idaho Social Studies 9-12.US2.10
The Standard
Evaluate the social tensions of the era, including: • Race • Christian fundamentalism • Labor • Immigration • Changing social values • The Red Scare • Rise of the Ku Klux Klan • Prohibition • Rise of the mob and mafia
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies · The Roaring 20s, 1920-1929
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace conflicts over race, religion, jobs, immigration, and changing social roles in the 1920s. They explain how the Red Scare, Klan violence, Prohibition, and organized crime affected different groups. They judge which tensions had the biggest effects and support their view with evidence.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how immigration quotas restricted newcomers while Klan campaigns intimidated Black Americans, Catholics, and Jews. They can link the Scopes trial to disputes over science and religion, and Prohibition to illegal alcohol sales. They can weigh harms to different groups using specific evidence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may picture the decade as prosperous for everyone, overlooking violence and discrimination. They may assume the Klan targeted only Black Americans, not immigrants, Catholics, and Jews. They may think Prohibition ended drinking rather than driving illegal sales.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Which caused more harm, the Palmer Raids or the 1924 immigration law? Name a group harmed by each and give one fact that supports your judgment.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Put cards on the Scopes trial, immigration quotas, Klan marches, and speakeasy raids on desks; pairs sort them by conflict and affected group.
Ask, "Did the Palmer Raids protect the public or punish dissent?" Have students use one detail from a raid report.
Play a cause-and-effect match game with cards for strikes, flappers, Klan rallies, and Prohibition; students explain two matches aloud.
Print a current state alcohol sales rule; students compare its aim and enforcement with Prohibition, then name one key difference.
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