Pageant Ch. 32 HW: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties,” 1919-1929
A disillusioned America turned away from idealism and reform after World War I and toward social conservatism and the pleasures of prosperity.
New technologies, mass-marketing techniques, and new forms of entertainment fostered rapid cultural change along with a focus on consumer goods. But the accompanying changes in moral values and uncertainty about the future produced cultural anxiety as well as sharp intellectual critiques of American life.
Objective 1: Analyze the movement toward social conservatism following World War I.
What was the “Red Scare”?
What events contributed to the hysteria?
What were the Palmer Raids?
Explain the difference between closed shops and open shops.
Explain the case of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Describe the beliefs of the resurgent Ku Klux Klan.
How did nativists react to the “New Immigration”?
Explain the Emergency Quota Act of 1921.
Which national-origin groups were most restricted by the Immigration Act of 1924?
Objective 2: Describe the cultural conflicts over such issues as prohibition and evolution.
Prohibition became the law of the land with the ratification of the _____th Amendment.
What was the Volstead Act?
Describe the public reaction to Prohibition.
Describe speakeasies.
How did Prohibition affect the American relationship with Canada?
How did Prohibition contribute to the rise of organized crime?
Who was Al Capone?
Describe “gangsterism” in the 1920s.
What was the Lindbergh Law?
How did compulsory attendance laws affect graduation rates?
Explain John Dewey’s “progressive education.”
Describe the controversy over Darwinian evolution.
Describe Fundamentalism.
In the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial,” who was the star of the prosecution? _________
Who was the lead defense attorney? _____________
Who won the trial? _____________
What was the significance of the trial?
Objective 3: Discuss the rise of the mass-consumption economy, led by the auto industry.
Describe the growth of advertising in the 1920s.
What is “buying on credit”?
What was the automotive capital of the U.S.? _________
What was Henry Ford’s major contribution to automobile production?
What the significance of the Model T Ford?
How did the growth of the automobile industry affect other industries?
How did cars affect leisure? Schools? Suburbs? Workers?
How did cars affect the quality of life?
What was the “Miracle at Kitty Hawk”?
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
How did the growth of the aviation industry affect other industries?
Objective 4: Describe the cultural revolution brought about by radio, films, and changing sexual standards.
How did radio affect the American economy?
How did radio affect family life?
How did radio affect American culture and politics?
Describe D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation.
How was cinema used during WWI?
Describe The Jazz Singer.
Who was Margaret Sanger?
What was the significance of “flappers”?
Objective 5: Explain how the era’s cultural changes affected African-Americans.
What was the significance of jazz music?
Who was Louis Armstrong?
Describe the Harlem Renaissance.
Describe the literary contributions of Langston Hughes.
What did Marcus Garvey advocate?
Objective 6: Explain how new ideas and values were reflected and promoted in the American literary renaissance of the 1920s.
Briefly describe the literary contributions of…
H. L. Mencken
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
Ezra Pound
T. S. Eliot
Robert Frost
Eugene O’Neill
Zora Neale Hurston
Objective 7: Describe economic policy of the 1920s.
Describe the Florida real estate market in the early 1920s.
What was buying “on margin”?
What was the Bureau of the Budget, and why was it created?
How did Secretary of the Treasury Mellon change tax policy?
How did the tax policy affect the national debt?
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