Indiana Social Studies USH.4.1
The Standard
Identify new cultural and technological movements of the 1920s, and explain their impacts on Americans.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Students are expected to trace and analyze chronological periods and examine the significant themes and concepts in U.S. History. Students develop historical thinking and research skills using primary and secondary sources to explore topical issues to understand the cause for changes in the nation over time.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify changes such as radio broadcasts, cars, jazz, and the Harlem Renaissance. They explain how these changes affected daily life and culture for different Americans.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how radio brought news and entertainment into homes and how Harlem Renaissance writers brought Black experiences to wider audiences. They can name people who did not benefit equally from these changes.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think radios and cars were invented in the 1920s, rather than becoming more common then. They may assume every family could afford a car or that the success of Black artists ended segregation.
How to Assess It
- Show a 1920s radio ad and Langston Hughes's poem "I, Too." Ask students to name the change each source shows and explain one effect of each change.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed 1920s radio and car ads and Hughes's "I, Too"; have them label the change and affected group on each.
Ask students to write: How did radio change evenings at home, and whose voices might listeners rarely hear?
Have teams match cards for radios, cars, and jazz with cards for national broadcasts, road building, and new music audiences.
Show a 1920s car ad beside a current one; have students mark claims about freedom, cost, and who could buy.
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Related Standards
- USH.6.8
Describe developing trends in science and technology, and explain how they impacted the lives of Americans during the period 1945 to 1980.
- USH.4.3
Analyze the causes of the Great Depression and its social, cultural, political, and economic impacts on all Americans.
- IS.1.17
Identify the social, political, economic, and cultural movements of the 1920s and analyze how these movements reflected and shaped Indiana society.
- USH.6.2
Analyze key economic, cultural, political, and social changes in post-World War II American life.
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