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CHAPTER
13
GUIDED READING
Education and Popular Culture
Section 3
A. As you read this section, take notes summarizing how public education changed.
Education Before the 1920s
Education During the 1920s
1. Enrollments
2. Types of courses
3. Immigrants
4. Financing
B. As you read about how America’s popular culture developed in the 1920s, give at
least two specific examples of each area of popular culture.
2. Magazines
3. Radio
4. Sports
5. Movies
6. Theater, music, and art
7. Literature
C. On the back of this paper, briefly explain who Charles A. Lindbergh was and
how he became America’s “most beloved hero” of the 1920s.
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1. Newspapers
Answer Key
Chapter 13, Section 3
GUIDED READING
A. Possible answers:
1. Enrollments: Before the 1920s,
approximately 1 million high
school students; during the
1920s, 4 million students
2. Courses: Before the 1920s, high
schools catered to college-bound
students; during the 1920s, they
catered to broad range of students, including those interested
in vocational training and home
economics.
3. Immigrants: Before the 1920s,
many immigrant students who
spoke some English; during the
1920s, many who spoke no
English
4. Financing: Before the 1920s,
costs doubled from 1913 to
1920; during the 1920s, costs
doubled again, totaling $2.7 billion a year by 1926.
B. Possible answers
1. Newspapers: Daily News and
Daily Mirror in New York City
2. Magazines: Time, The Saturday
Evening Post, Collier’s, Reader’s
Digest, Life, Smart Set,
American Mercury, The New
Yorker
3. Radio: WEAF; General Electric,
Westinghouse, RCA, NBC, CBS
4. Sports heroes: Babe Ruth, Jack
Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Red
Grange, the Fighting Irish of
Notre Dame, Big Bill Tilden,
Helen Wills, Bobby Jones,
Gertrude Ederle
5. Movies: Charlie Chaplin, Tom
Mix, Theda Bara, Clara Bow,
Rudolph Valentino, Al Jolson,
Mickey Mouse; The Sheik, The
Jazz Singer, Steamboat Willie
6. Theater, music, and art: Aaron
Copland, Eugene O’Neill,
George Gershwin, Edward
Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe; The
Hairy Ape, Rhapsody in Blue,
Concerto in F, Music for the
Theater, Piano Concerto
7. Literature: Sinclair Lewis,
H. L. Mencken, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker,
Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow,
Willa Cather, Edna St. Vincent
Millay, Gertrude Stein, Ernest
Hemingway, John Dos Passos,
Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot; Main
Street, Babbitt, American
Mercury, This Side of Paradise,
The Great Gatsby, The Age of
Innocence, Barren Ground, My
Ántonia, Death Comes for the
Archbishop, The Waste Land,
Three Soldiers, The Sun Also
Rises, A Farewell to Arms
C. Students should note that
Lindbergh piloted the first
nonstop solo flight across the
Atlantic.