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Coursework
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• Look at sources A and B. How far do these
  sources agree about life in the 1920s (7)

Source B A description of the 1920s from the
memoirs of Thomas Adams, written in 1973. Adams
was a rich businessman in the 1920s At the time
I felt that American had reached the American
Dream More money for everyone, every year.
Suddenly everyone owned a car. We all had bigger
houses. Henry Ford has liberated us all. But
then came the dirt, the automobile crashes, the
strikes and the street fighting. The 1920s were
not such a happy time after all.
Source A An election leaflet for Herbert
Hoover from 1928 he was the Republican
candidate in the Presidential elections of that
year
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• Look at sources A and B. How far do these
  sources agree about life in the 1920s (7)

Cover agreement and disagreement
Disagreement lDisagree about how happy lDisagree
about whether there were bad things at all lots
of things omitted from source A
Agreement lMore money lCars for everyone lSmoke
and pollution but used differently lBetter
houses
Do a brief how far conclusion
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2) Look at sources C and D. Which of these two
sources would have been most reliable for finding
out about life in 1920s America. (8)
Source D A picture from the cover of an
American Magazine from 1926. The picture shows
newspaper headlines behind the Liberty Bell
which is engraved with the words Proclaim
Liberty Unto All
Source C A book written by a French writer who
visited America in the 1920s Life for the
American is on a scale that would normally be
reserved for only the richest people in the rest
of the world. They have telephones. The
wireless can be found in most homes, even the
farmers have their own radios. 81 of all of the
Worlds automobiles can be found within the USA
and it also owns or produces most of the rubber,
gasoline and silk. All this in a country that
has only 6 of the total population of earth.
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2) Look at sources C and D. Which of these two
sources would have been most reliable for finding
out about life in 1920s America. (8)
The main thing here is do the sources match up
with your background knowledge?
Source C True about telephones, cars, radios and
luxuries But it does not tell us about the darker
side of the USA not everyone had these things
and there were social problems as well.
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2) Look at sources C and D. Which of these two
sources would have been most reliable for finding
out about life in 1920s America. (8)
The main thing here is do the sources match up
with your background knowledge?
Source D True about the social and political
problems But it does not tell us about the
improvement in the USA economic growth, votes
for women, more freedom, the car, Jazz, Hollywood
etc.
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3) Look at sources E and F. Did the artists of
these two cartoons think the 1920s were a boom
period? (8)
Source E An American cartoon published in 1925.
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3) Look at sources E and F. Did the artists of
these two cartoons think the 1920s were a boom
period? (8)
Source F An American cartoon published in the
1920s
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4) Look at sources G and H. Do these sources
prove that the 1920s was a boom period? (8)
Source G Sales of selected consumer goods 1919
and 1929
Source H From a speech made by President Calvin
Coolidge when he retired as President in 1929.
Coolidge was President between 1923 and
1929 As we come to the end of this decade we
can look back with the certain knowledge that the
people of our country are now much better off
than they have ever been before. Their living
conditions are of a much higher quality and their
daily round is much easier.
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4) Look at sources G and H. Do these sources
prove that the 1920s was a boom period? (8)
Production did increase Ford Cars, more
telephones, radio programmes baseball and Jazz.
etc
Source G Sales of selected consumer goods 1919
and 1929
But.. Who owns them, did everyone have them, was
there still poverty
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4) Look at sources G and H. Do these sources
prove that the 1920s was a boom period? (8)
There is some truth in this many people were
better off, and their load was lighter eg
labour saving devices, cars, shorter working
hours.
Source H From a speech made by President Calvin
Coolidge when he retired as President in 1929.
Coolidge was President between 1923 and
1929 As we come to the end of this decade we
can look back with the certain knowledge that the
people of our country are now much better off
than they have ever been before. Their living
conditions are of a much higher quality and their
daily round is much easier.
But not everyone got better off. Not all women
had an easier life. Blacks, farmers, West
Virginian miners etc.
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5) Look at sources I and J. Source I must be
less reliable than source J because it is a
novel. How far do you agree with this
statement? (7)
Source I From a novel The Grapes of Wrath
written in 1939 by the American author John
Steinbeck. This extract is about a farmer in the
1920s We rented our farm from one of the big
companies in the city. We grew wheat. During the
war we ploughed up land to grow more wheat.
Prices were good in those years. We expanded,
borrowed money to rent more land and to buy more
equipment.... After the war prices fell. It came
to a point where it cost us more to harvest the
wheat, than we could sell it for. We kept going
as best we could. Then one day, a big car came
with a man from the company who owned the farm.
He had a sheet of paper which said we had to be
out of the farm by the end of the month because
we owed money. That was that, on the last day of
the month they came - came with a bulldozer. They
gave us an hour to get off the farm. We packed
all we could into a truck.... After an hour, the
bulldozer began to knock our house down.
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5) Look at sources I and J. Source I must be
less reliable than source J because it is a
novel. How far do you agree with this
statement? (7)
Source J From an article in American Magazine
1928, by an American businessman New goods have
become available in the 1920s which had a
significant effect on people's daily life... The
farmer, who not so long ago toiled for twelve and
fourteen hours a day, is going to find himself
with plenty of time on his hands in which to do
other things than run his farm. Every one of them
will have more chance to do what he will, which
means greater opportunity and more wealth for
them.
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5) Look at sources I and J. Source I must be
less reliable than source J because it is a
novel. How far do you agree with this
statement? (7)
Source I Farmers did suffer in this way give
examples. This is quite dramatic and emotional,
but in many cases it was just like this.
Source J New goods were available and they did
change the lives of some people. Some farmers
were better off, but others were not. Stress
that the new goods and better times did not help
everyone.
Reach conclusion about how far you agree with the
statement.
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6) The 1920s were a period of improvement.
How far do these sources support this view?
Sources that reject the statement D I
Sources that support the statement A C G H J
Sources that are mixed B E F
You must evaluate some of the sources as you go
along
You must reach a conclusion that answers the
question