James A. Henretta
Eric Hinderaker
Rebecca Edwards
Robert O. Self
America’s History
Eighth Edition
America: A Concise History
Sixth Edition
CHAPTER 22
Cultural Conflict, Bubble, and Bust,
1919‒1932
Copyright © 2014 by Bedford/St. Martin’s
I. Conflicted Legacies of World War I
A. Racial Strife
1. White Violence
2. Competition
I. Conflicted Legacies of World War I
B. Erosion of Labor Rights
1. National War Labor Board
2. Public employees
3. Welfare capitalism
I. Conflicted Legacies of World War I
C. The Red Scare
1. Bolsheviks
2. Palmer raids
3. Sacco and Vanzetti
II. Politics in the 1920s
A. Women in Politics
1. Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy
Act
2. Equal Rights Amendment
3. Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom
II. Politics in the 1920s
B. Republicans and Business
1. Warren Harding
2. Calvin Coolidge
II. Politics in the 1920s
C. Dollar Diplomacy
1. Foreign affairs
2. On the defensive
II. Politics in the 1920s
D. Culture Wars
1. Prohibition
2. Evolution in the Schools
II. Politics in the 1920s
D. Culture Wars (cont.)
3. Nativism
4. The National Klan
5. The Election 1928
III. Intellectual Modernism
A. Harlem in Vogue
1. Black Writers and Artists
1. Jazz
2. Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
III. Intellectual Modernism
B. Critiquing American Life
1. The Lost Generation
2. The dark side
IV. From Boom to Bust
A. The Postwar Economy
1. Corporate monopolies
2. Languishing industries
IV. From Boom to Bust
B. Consumer Culture
1. The Automobile
2. Hollywood
IV. From Boom to Bust
C. The Coming of the Great Depression
1. Causes
2. Effects