Unit 7: Domestic and Global Challenges, 1890-1945
Chapter 22: Cultural Conflict, Bubble, and Bust, 1919-1932
Guiding Questions and Identifications
1. How does America’s participation in the victory in World War I affect the country domestically
(i.e. labor relations, immigration, nativism, economic activity and stability, politics , the arts)?
2. What was the Republican vision of “normalcy,” and how did the Harding and Coolidge
administrations seek to realize it?
3. Along what lines did Americans find themselves divided in the 1920s? How were those conflicts
expressed in politics? In culture and intellectual life?
4. What factors contributed to the economic boom of the 1920s and the crash that followed?
Identifications:
22.1 Conflicted Legacies of World War I
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
welfare capitalism
A. Mitchell Palmer & the Palmer raids
Red Scare
Sacco and Vanzetti
22.2 Politics in the 1920s
Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
associated state concept
Teapot Dome scandal
“dollar diplomacy”
Prohibition
American Civil Liberties Union
Scopes trial
National Origins Act
Ku Klux Klan
Birth of a Nation
Henry Ford and his views on Judaism
22.3 Intellectual Modernism
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Louis Armstrong
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Marcus Garvey
pan-Africanism
Lost Generation
22.4 From Boom to Bust
consumer credit
Hollywood
Adolph Zukor
flapper
soft power