American Life in the Roaring Twenties
1919-1929
Chapter 31
Reactions ~
Xenophobia
1.
Red Scare: Define the issues and people below that illustrate the reactions to
the perceived threat of invasion by the Communists
Seattle General Strike
Billy Sunday –
A. Mitchell Palmer –
Buford criminal syndicalism laws –
Sacco and Vanzetti Case (1921) –
2.
Why did the KKK see such resurgence during the 1920’s?
3.
Immigration: What was the U.S. immigration policy prior to 1921?
Emergency Quota Act of 1921 – Define its provisions
Immigration Act of 1924 – Define its provisions. Why did it change the ’21 Act?
Prohibition
4.
Prohibition: What were the arguments for the prohibition of alcohol (18th
Amendment)?
What areas of the country supported it and why? Which areas of the country opposed it and why?
Quantify the societal impact of Prohibition?
Evolution vs. Fundamentalism
5.
Scopes Monkey Trial: What was the issue in the case?
What was the significance of the case when seen as a reflection of society?
Modernism ~
6.
Consumerism:
- How did producers increase buying desires of consumers?
- “Buying on credit” – what was this concept? How was it diametrically opposed
to previous traditional norms on the subject?
7.
Who was Frederick W. Taylor and why was he important?
8.
Automobile – List the many of the social and economic effects that the creation
of the car had on the United States.
9.
Airplane: Identify the following
Wright Brothers –
Spirit of St. Louis (Charles Lindbergh) –
Explain the impact of the airplane on the world.
10.
Radio: Who was the inventor and what impact did the radio have on society and
the world?
11.
Entertainment – Who and/or what were the following?
Nickelodeons
The Great Train Robbery –
Birth of a Nation –
Talkies –
The Jazz Singer – (1927) –
What was the effect of the movie industry on society?
12.
Social and Cultural Movements – Identify these people or movements
of the 1920’s that defined the age as the “Roaring Twenties”
Margaret Sanger –
Alice Paul –
Modernist Churches“Flappers”
Dr. Sigmund Freud –
Jazz - (list early greats and songs) –
Harlem Renaissance (p. 741 + 743) – What was it and who were its champions?
United Negro Improvement Association –
13.
Literature of the 1920’s- What did the writers of the 1920’s have in
common? State who wrote each piece and its theme.
American Mercury (monthly)–
This Side of Paradise –
A Farewell to Arms –
Babbitt –
“The Waste Land” –
14.
Bull Market of the 1920’s – Create a picture of the era by defining the business
practices and effect during this decade –
(“buying on margin”, Mellon’s tax reductions, Florida land Boom and Bust)
15.
What are the theme/themes of this chapter? Provide at least three specific
examples of that theme(s).