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Review Sheet – The 1920s - 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.