c. 1920-1941:
The Roaring Twenties
Essential Questions
- How did the booming economy of the 1920s lead to changes in Americans life?
- How did domestic and foreign policy change direction under Harding and Coolidge?
- How did Americans differ on major social and cultural issues?
Learning Objectives
You will learn:
- How, why and to what extent a consumer based economy flourished in the United States in the 1920s
- How and why the birth of the automobile industry impacted the economic and cultural development of the United States at the beginning of the 20th Century
- How the invention and use of radio impacted the economic, political and cultural development of the United States
- How aviation and the airplane industry developed from the Wright Brothers initial flight and how it affected American culture
- How “the lost generation” of American writers expressed the cultural struggle between modernism and tradition during the 1920s
- How “modernism” developed and challenged conventional or traditional practices of American society during the 1920s
- How and in what ways defenders of tradition reacted to modern thought and rapid change in American society of the 1920s
- How the administrations of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover reverted to conservative government practices based on lower taxes and deregulation of industries
- How scandals influenced the Warren G. Harding administration
- How the Harlem Renaissance raised awareness of issues affecting the lives of African Americans in the 1920s through various forms of expression such as literature, art, music and drama.
- How speculation in the stock market led to the “Black Tuesday” crash of October 29, 1929 and the global impacts of the crash
- How and why Prohibition became “the law of the land” and why it was later repealed
Key Terms
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1920s Obituaries
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| scopes_the_battle_over_americas_soul.pdf |
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Digital History Textbook
The Jazz Age: The American 1920s
The 1920s was a decade of major cultural conflicts as well as a period when many features of a modern consumer culture took root. In this chapter, you will learn about the clashes over alcohol, evolution, foreign immigration, and race, and also about the growth of cities, the rise of a consumer culture, and the revolution in morals and manners.
The 1920s - An Overview
The Postwar Red Scare
Postwar Labor Tensions
Prohibition
Race
The Great Migration
The Ku Klux Klan
Sacco and Vanzetti
Immigration Restriction
Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism
The Scopes Trial
Leopold and Loeb
Politics During the 1920s
The Democratic Convention of 1924
The Election of 1928
Herbert Hoover
The Consumer Economy and Mass Entertainment
The Formation of Modern American Mass Culture
Low Brow and Middle Brow Culture
The Avant-Garde
The New Woman
The 1920s was a decade of major cultural conflicts as well as a period when many features of a modern consumer culture took root. In this chapter, you will learn about the clashes over alcohol, evolution, foreign immigration, and race, and also about the growth of cities, the rise of a consumer culture, and the revolution in morals and manners.
The 1920s - An Overview
The Postwar Red Scare
Postwar Labor Tensions
Prohibition
Race
The Great Migration
The Ku Klux Klan
Sacco and Vanzetti
Immigration Restriction
Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism
The Scopes Trial
Leopold and Loeb
Politics During the 1920s
The Democratic Convention of 1924
The Election of 1928
Herbert Hoover
The Consumer Economy and Mass Entertainment
The Formation of Modern American Mass Culture
Low Brow and Middle Brow Culture
The Avant-Garde
The New Woman