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Review Sheet – The 1920s
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 Aim: Who/What contributed to
American Pop Culture in the 1920s?
 Aim: How did cars change
American life?
 Aim: Why didn’t Prohibition work?
 Aim: What was the Great
Migration? What happened in
Harlem in the 1920s?
 Aim: Why was the woman of the
1920s so different than women from
the past?
President Harding
“Return to Normalcy”
Isolationism
Conservatism – end of Progressivism
Laizze Faire business
Red Scare
 Mitchell Palmer - Palmer Raids
 FBI – J. Edgar Hoover
Anarchists
Sacco and Vanzetti
Rise of the KKK
Limiting Immigration
Nativism
Emergency Quota Act of 1921 – quota system
National Origins Act of 1929 – reduced number of
immigrants to 150,000 in any one year.
Standard of Living Soars
Automobile creates Urban Sprawl
Suburbs
Airplane/Charles Lindbergh
Electrical Conveniences
Installment Plans
Modern Advertising
The Culture
Prohibition – 18th Amendment – 21st Amendment
Crime/Al Capone
Speakeasies/Bootleggers
Scopes Trial/Fundamentalists/Evolution
Clarence Darrow/William Jennings Bryan
Entertainment
Steamboat Willie/Jazz Singer
Babe Ruth
Women in the 20s
Flappers
Jobs
Education
Lost Generation Writers
F. Scott FitzGerald/The Jazz Age
Ernest Hemmingway/For Whom the Bell Tolls
Sinclair Lewis/Main Street
The Round Table –Algonquin Hotel
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Jazz/Louis Armstrong/Duke Ellington
Bessie Smith
Essays:
What was the quota system of the 1920s? Explain
why it was established, who it affected and several
results of the policy.
Explain how prohibition came to be viewed as a
problem rather than a solution. Discuss 2
conclusions you may have.
Discuss at least two signs that existed in the 1920s
suggesting that economic prosperity might be
superficial.
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