Science and Beliefs of the 1920s
Eugenics
1920s A
Name_________________________ 1
Evolution
1-How did evolution challenge the Bible’s accounts?
2-What is meant by “higher criticism”?
Evolution
Scopes Monkey Trial
Fundamentalism
3-What was Scopes charged with?
4-Who prosecuted Scopes?
5-Why was this trial such a focal point for the nation?
Scopes Trial
New Technology and Entertainment of the 1920s
1920s B
Name________________________ 2
Henry Ford
Assembly Line
Mass Production
Electric Trolley
Airline Industry
Appliances
Electric Light
Radio
Mass Media
Talkies
Consumerism in the 1920s
1920s C
Name_________________________ 3
Installment Plan
Consumer Society
Women in the 1920s
Work
Fashion
Nightlife
Intellectual Responses of the 1920s
1920s D Name_________________________ 4
The Lost
Generation
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Harlem
Renaissance
Jazz
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• Quota
Prohibition
• Nativism
Resurgence of the KKK
• Palmer Raids
Immigration Restrictions
• Communism
Sacco and Vanzetti
Red Scare and Immigration
Social Conflicts in the 1920s
• Crime
• Speakeasies
• Bootleggers