Wednesday, April 5

Good morning!

Today we will begin to explore the period of the "Roaring Twenties"

Homework - Watch any clips below that we do not see in class.

Roaring Twenties

Harlem Renaissance

Driving around NYC in 1928

Building of George Washington Bridge

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Today in History

• 1614

  Pocahontas married John Rolfe.

• 1792

  George Washington cast the first presidential veto.

• 1887

  Anne Sullivan makes the breakthrough to Helen Keller by spelling "water" in the manual alphabet.

• 1951

  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for giving away atomic secrets to the Russians.

• 1955

  Winston Churchill resigned as prime minister of Britain.

• 1971

  Canadian Fran Phipps became the first woman to reach the North Pole.

• 1999

  Libya gave over two suspects in the Lockerbie, Scotland Pan Am bombing.