Chapter 23 – The Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)
I.
The New Economic Order
A. What was the post-World War I economic situation and what new developments
contributed to it?
B. What were new modes of producing, managing, and selling goods to the public
and how did it affect society?
C. How did women and labor unions adapt to the new political and economic order?
II.
Politics in the 1920s – Harding and Coolidge
A. What was Harding’s promise in the election of 1920 and what was the nature of
his administration?
B. What were the main ideas of the Coolidge administration and how did it carry
over to the election of 1924?
C. What was the political ideology towards foreign nations in the 1920s?
III.
Mass Society in the Twenties
A. How did the introduction of the automobile impact American culture in the
1920s?
B. What were the leisure activities during the 1920s and who were the celebrities of
the age?
C. What were the values that appeared during the “Jazz Age” and how did it affect a
new group of talented writers?
D. Who were the “Jazz Age” artists and musicians and how did they affect the
culture of the 1920s?
E. How were immigrants viewed in society during the 1920s and how did the
Sacco-Vanzetti case illustrate these views?
F. How were African-Americans treated in society in the 1920s and what was their
response to the treatment?
G. What was the effect of the issues of fundamentalism and prohibition on society in
the 1920s?