AP/IB US HISTORY - Mr. Ludlam
ASSIGNMENT SHEET #16: The Perils of Prosperity, 1918 - 1929
AMERICAN PAGEANT: Chap. 30, 31, 32 pp. 716-717, 720-745, 746-762
QUESTIONS: Think about and answer
1. What is the meaning of Harding’s words (p. 720)?
2. How did the case against Sacco and Vanzetti divide the country?
3. What do the Red Scare, Prohibition, Immigration Acts, and the KKK have in common?
4. Why was prohibition difficult to enforce? What were the positives of the 18th Amendment?
5. How did the Scopes Trial expose the conflict between fundamentalism and modernism?
6. How did buying on credit effect the American economy?
7. Why would Ford’s ideas improve all parts of American industry?
8. What impact did the automobile have on American society?
9. How were women more free personally during the 1920’s?
10. What did the music, art, and literature of the 1920’s have in common?
11. How did film and radio make the country smaller?
12. How did Republican pro business attitudes effect the economy and workers?
13. What was the goal of the Washington Naval Conference?
14. Describe the connection between government tariff and business policies.
15. What issues effected farmers and how did they try to improve their economic standing?
16. Why was the South less solid during the election of 1928?
17. How did economic policies of the 1920’s lead to the Great Depression?
18. Why does the stock market crash signify the end of the “Roaring Twenties”?
19. ASK AND ANSWER YOUR OWN QUESTION
At the end of this unit, you must be able to answer the following question.
The 1920’s were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and traditional values and nostalgia on the
other. What led to the tension between old and new AND in what ways was the tension manifested?
Fundamentalism v. Modernism: define each term and then determine whether the ID represents fundamentalism or modernism
IDENTIFICATIONS: What or who is it and why is it important - THINK SIGNIFICANCE - connect to others
Culture
Election of 1920
IWW
KKK
Prohibition
wet v. dry
Advertising
Henry Ford / Autos
Hollywood / Movies
flappers
Marcus Garvey - UNIA
Red Scare
“American plan”
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
18th Amendment
Gangsters
Bruce Barton
Charles Lindbergh
Margaret Sanger / birth control
music / jazz
Literature, authors, works, ideas
Politics
Election of 1920
stock market
Mellon’s tax policies
President Harding
Harding’s Cabinet
Supreme Court
Labor in the 1920's
“bonus bill”
5,4,9 Power Treaty
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Veterans Bureau scandal
Teapot Dome scandal
Coolidge Prosperity
farm issues
Central America Policy
Dawes Plan of 1924
Federal Farm Board
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
A. Mitchell Palmer
Sacco and Vanzetti
Immigration Act of 1924
Volstead Act
Scopes Trial
Popularity of Sports
Radio
Alice Paul / ERA
Harlem Renaissance
buying on margin
Normalcy
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
Washington Naval Conference
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Harry Daugherty
Election of 1924
Election of 1928
Stock Market crash