The Twenties
A
(1920-1929)
REPUBLICAN DECADE
THE
GIDEA
During the 1920s,
Republican Presidents
worked to limit
immigration, while
promoting the growth
of American business.
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revolutions in other countries and spread
communism throughout the world
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all land and property
Communism in the
Soviet Union
Individuals have no rights that the
government is legally bound to respect
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A Republican Decade
A. ASYOUREAD
As you read Section 1, fill in three supporting details under each of the following
main ideas.
Main Idea: The establishment of communism in the Soviet Union produced a
red scare in the United States.
1.
2.
3.
Main Idea: A rash of strikes in 1919 convinced many Americans that
Communists were behind the labor unrest.
4.
5.
6.
Main Idea: Republicans, who favored business and sought social stability,
dominated politics in the 1920s.
7.
8.
9.
B. REVIEWING KEY TERMS
Define or identify the following key terms.
10. isolationism
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11. disarmament
12. quota
13. Teapot Dome Scandal
14. Kellogg-Briand Pact
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BUSINESS
BooM
THE BGIDEA
American business
boomed during the
1920s, as Americans
earned more and spent
more on exciting new
products.
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A Business Boom
A. As You READ
As you read Section 2, fill in two supporting details under each of the following
main ideas,
Main Idea: The growth of a consumer economy changed American life.
1.
2.
Main Idea: Henry Ford took advantage of new technology to make automobiles
more efficiently.
3.
4.
Main Idea: The growth in popularity of the automobile fueled the growth of
related businesses.
5.
6.
B.
REVIEWING KEY TERMS
Define each of the following terms, and explain the role each played in the
business boom of the 1920s.
7. consumer economy
8. installment plan
9. assembly line
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THE
I920s
GIDEA
American society
changed rapidly during
the 1920s, as urban
areas grew and women
adopted new lifestyles.
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Work and Politics
Style
• Women “bobbed” or cut their hair short
• Women wore makeup and shorter dresses
• Women smoked and drank in public
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Women voted in local and national elections
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Society in the 1920s
A. ASYOUREAD
As you read Section 3, answer the following questions on the lines provided.
1. Why is the flapper viewed as an appropriate symbol of the 1920s?
2. How did women’s status at work and in politics change during the 1920s?
3. Why did large numbers of African Americans leave the South during the
early 1900s?
4. How did suburbs change during the 1920s?
5. Why did Charles Lindbergh become an American hero?
6. What other heroes inspired Americans during this decade?
B. REVIEWING KEY TERMS
Define the following key terms.
7. flapper
8. demographics
9. barrio
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MASS MEDIA AND
THE JAZZ AGE
THE
GIDEA
Radio, movies, jazz
music, and great
American writers
helped make the 1920s
a time of creativity and
cultural change.
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• By 1930, nearly 14 million
American households own radios
• Radio networks such as NBC reach
nationwide audiences
• For the first time, people around
the country hear the same music,
news programs, and commercials
Mass Media in the 1920s
Movies
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Los Angeles suburb of Hollywood
becomes center of American film
industry
Theaters sell 100 million tickets a
week at a time when the United
States population is less than
125 million
Newspapers
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Newspaper “chains” buy up
newspapers around the country
Number of newspapers sold each
day increases by 141%
People share the same informa
tion, are influenced by the same
ideas and fashions
• Film making becomes the fourth
largest business in the country
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Mass Media and the Jazz Age
A. As You READ
As you read Section 4, draw a line through the term or name in each group that is
not related to the others. Explain how the remaining terms or names are related.
1. William Randolph
Hearst
newspapers
Louis Armstrong
mass medium
2. jazz
Harlem
Hollywood
Duke Ellington
3. Rhapsody in Blue
Sinclair Lewis
Main Street
Nobel Prize for Literature
4* Lost Generation
Greenwich Village
Ernest Hemingway
NBC
5. NAACP
Georgia OKeeffe
Harlem Renaissance James Weldon Johnson
B. REVIEWING KEY TERMS
Explain how each of the following terms relates to the 1920s.
6. mass media
7. Jazz Age
8. Lost Generation
9. Harlem Renaissance
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CULTURAL CONFLICTS
THE
GIDEA
Prohibition led to the
rise of organized crime,
while religious and
racial tensions also
increased in the 1920s.
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The Scopes Trial
Theory of evolution begins gaining acceptance among
many Americans.
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Many religious leaders argue evolution contradicts
history of creation as stated in Bible. Support laws
banning teaching of evolution in public schools.
“
Tennessee passes law against teaching evolution.
V
Tennessee science teacher John T. Scopes breaks state
law by teaching evolution to his students.
c
Jury finds Scopes guilty, fines him $1 00. Case causes
nationwide debate between Americans holding mod
em beliefs and those supporting traditional beliefs.
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Cultural Conflicts
A. As You READ
As you read Section 5, complete the paragraphs by writing the correct answers in
the blanks provided. Then write a title stating the main idea of the paragraphs.
Title:
Many Americans, believing that the country was on the road to moral and social
decay, sought to slow down the pace of change that defined the 1920s.
Prohibitionists had already achieved their goal with the ratification of the
which outlawed the manufacture, sale, and trans
(1)
portation of any intoxicating beverage. However, Prohibition proved impossible
,
to enforce and led to illegal trafficking in liquor by (2)
the most famous of which was Al Capone’s, in Chicago.
In response to challenges to their religious principles, traditionalists pub
Several
lished a set of beliefs that came to be called (3)
the
states passed laws banning the teaching of (4)
theory that human beings and all other species developed over time from simple
decided to
forms, A biology teacher named (5)
challenge the ban, so he had a friend file suit against him. The trial pitted
a lawyer famous for defending political and labor
(6)
a former presidential candidate
activists, against (7)
.
,
,
,
who argued for the literal truth of the Bible.
Another group sought to curb change through violent means. An old
enemy of racial harmony and an advocate of white supremacy, the
launched a campaign of terror against African
(8)
Partly as a result
Americans, Catholics, Jews, and (9)
urged
of such continued violence, black leader (10)
.
African Americans to return to (11)
B. REVIEWING KEY TERMS
Explain how the key terms in each pair are related.
12. bootlegger, speakeasy
d
13. fundamentalism, Scopes trial
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