Give Me Liberty! Chapter 20 Reading Guide
Academic Vocab
Red Scare
Chapter 20 Introduction
Red Scare >
Sacco & Vanzetti >
Henry Ford &
Fordlandia
THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA
 A Decade of Prosperity>
General Motors
 A New Society>
IBM
Andre Siegfried
 The Limits of Prosperity>
Lincoln Steffens
 The Farmers’ Plight>
Chrysler
Bruce Barton
 The Image of Business>
Impact of
Committee on
Public Information
Stock market trade>
 The Decline of Labor>
Arsene Pujo
Investigations
“money trust”
“industrial
freedom”
“welfare
capitalism”
“human factor”
Juliet Stuart
Poyntz
 The Equal Rights Amendment>
Harriet Stanton Blatch:
National Women’s Party >
Women’s Trade Union League>
Alice Paul:
 Women’s Freedom>
“flapper”
Answer: Who benefitted and who suffered in the new consumer society of the 1920s?
Sigmund Freud
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Walter Lippmann
BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT
 The Retreat from Progressivism>
Robert & Helen
Lynd
 The Republican Era>
George W. Norris
Federal Reserve Board:
William H Taft
“normalcy”
Herbert Hoover &
Charles Evans
Hughes
Teapot Dome
McNary-Haugen
Bill
Federal Trade Commission:
 Corruption in Government>
Warren G. Harding>
Albert. B Fall >
 The Election of 1924>
Calvin Coolidge:
 Economic Diplomacy>
“Isolationism”
Answer: In what ways did the government promote business interests in the 1920s?
“the degradation
of American
Freedoms”
“banned in
Boston”
Hays Code
THE BIRTH OF CIVIL LIBERTIES
“the death of Progressivism’s Faith:
 The “Free Mob”
The Lost Generation:
 A “Clear and Present Danger”
D.H. Lawrence
Schenck v. United
States
Civil Liberties Bureau/American Civil Liberties Union:
 The Court and Civil Liberties
John Haynes
Holmes
Benjamin Gitlow:
Chief Justice
Oliver Wendell
Holmes
Free speech:
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Jacob Abrams
Louis Brandeis:
“Proletarian
dictatorship”
“criminal anarchy”
Answer: Why did the protection of civil liberties gain importance in the 1920s?
Modernists v.
fundamentalists
THE CULTURE WARS (836-847)
 The Fundamentalist Revolt>
Billy Sunday
Charles Darwin
theory of
evolution
 The Scopes Trial (Scopes Monkey Trial)>
ACLU:
“moral liberty v. freedom of thought”:
John Scopes
Clarence Darrow
Wm. Jennings
Bryan
Quota
Border Patrol

The Second Klan>
Leo Frank:
 Closing the Golden Door “Quotas” >
Cable Act of 1922:
Immigration Act 1921:
W,E,B.Du Bois
National Origins
Act
Ethnic enclaves
Immigration Act 1924:
 Race and the Law >
“race Policy”
 Pluralism and Liberty >
Cultural pluralism:
“American
Principles”
 Promoting Tolerance >
Meyer v.
Nebraska
 The Emergence of Harlem >
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“slumming”
Great Migration
Countee Cullen,
Langston Hughes,
Claude McKay
“The capital of black America”
 The Harlem Renaissance >
“New Negro”:
Ossian Sweet:
Answer: What were the major flash points between fundamentalism and pluralism in the 1920s?
John Maynard
Keynes
Golden
Anniversary of the
Festival of Light
Black Tuesday
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
 The Election of 1928>
Herbert Hoover:
American Individualism:
Alfred E. Smith
 The Coming of the Depression>
Causes of the Great Depression:
Falling stock prices
Why did it affect the USA so dramatically?
Hoovervilles
“The American
Way of Life”
Richard Whitney
 Americans and the Depression>
Effects on population and migration:
American Banking:
“belt-tightening”
 Resignation and Protest>
“Volunteerism”
 Hoover’s Response>
Hawley-Smoot
Tariff
“associational action”
 The Worsening Economic Outlook>
Reconstruction Finance Corporation:
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John Dewey
Charles Beard
Federal Home Loan Bank System:
 Freedom in the Modern World>
Answer: What were the causes of the Great Depression, and how effective were the government’s
Responses by 1932?
Chapter Review Questions
How did consumerism affect the meaning of American freedom in the 1920s?
Which groups did not share in the prosperity of the 1920s and WHY?
How did observers explain the decrease in democracy and popular participation in government during the decade?
How did government actions reflect conservative business interests in this period?
Explain the justifications for immigration restriction laws as well as the reasons for specific exemptions to these
laws.
Did U.S. society in the 1920s reflect the concept of cultural pluralism as explained by Horace Kallen? Why/Why
not?
Identify the causes of the Great Depression.
What principles guided President Hoover’s response(s) to the Great Depression, and how did this restrict his
ability to help the American people?
To what degree was race a global issue in the 1920s?
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Key Terms and People
the “New Negro”
bonus marchers
Claude McKay
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
slumming
American Civil Liberties Union
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Warren Harding
“the American way of life”
The Man Nobody Knows
Bruce Barton
Henry Ford
Robert and Helen Lynd
Alice Paul
Hays Code
rise of the stock market
“welfare capitalism”
Fordlandia
Scopes trial
Ku Klux Klan
Sacco-Vanzetti case
Equal Rights Amendment
the “flapper”
Teapot Dome scandal
McNary-Haugen farm bill
Sacco-Vanzetti
John Scopes
James McReynolds
Alfred E. Smith
Leo Frank
New Negro
Bonus March
National Origins Act
Scopes Trial
“100 percent Americanism”
“illegal alien”
Punjo investigations
Border Patrol
Hays code
American Civil Liberties Union
“clear and present danger”
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