AP US History
Mr. Trinkner
Chapter 24 Study Guide
Most Important Events
Fordism
Open Shop
McNary-Haugen Bill
Teapot Dome scandal
Tariffs, including Smoot-Hawley
Washington Naval Arms Conference
Return of Progressive Party
Harlem Renaissance
Mass Culture
Scopes Trial
Prohibition
Volstead Act
Immigration Acts and Quotas
Sacco and Venzetti case
Election of 1928
Welfare Capitalism
Ku Klux Klan resurgence
Automobile culture
Retreat from internationalism
Most Important People
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Henry Ford
Babe Ruth
Ty Cobb
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemmingway
Langston Hughes
Duke Ellington
Robert la Follette
Jane Addams
Alice Paul
Charles Lindbergh
Sinclair lewis
Georgia O’Keefe
Edward Hopper
Marcus Garvey
John Scopes
Herbert Hoover
Guiding Questions
1. Explain why agriculture was economically depressed during the 1920s.
2. What happened to the trade union movement in the 1920s? Why?
3. In what ways did industrial and technological developments in the 1920s increase environmental dangers and
the rapid use and waste of natural resources? Was government in the 1920s interested in either conservation
or preservation?
4. Explain the economic and social impact of the booming automobile industry on America in the 1920s.
5. How effective was prohibition in reducing excessive drinking? Why wasn't it more successful?
6. What were some of prohibition's socially harmful effects on American society?
7. Discuss Herbert Hoover's social thought. How did his outlook hinder him in fighting the depression that
began during his presidency?
8. What accounts for the economic growth and prosperity of the 1920s? Who benefited most from that
prosperity? Who did not share in it and why?
9. How did the federal policies under presidents Harding and Coolidge reflected the probusiness attitudes of the
1920s.
10. Discuss the impact of the economic, cultural, and social changes of the 1920s on the lives of American
women. Were the changes felt by working-, middle-, and upper-class women?
11. Sharp social conflicts existed in American society in the 1920s. These conflicts produced fear, intolerance,
and attempts to "purify" the country by legislation and coercion. Explain these conflicts and the attempts of
government and private groups to bring back a more traditional and homogeneous America.
12. The 1920s were a time of changing manners and morals and of cultural ferment. Explain the changes that took
place in popular culture and among artists and intellectuals.