The Roaring 1920s Study Guide
Chapters 26-29
Chapter 26: What effects did postwar tensions have on America’s ideals?
1. Sacco & Vanzetti
2. How did the end of the war and demobilization effect the U.S. economy?
-“guns to butter”
3. How was labor effected by the end of the war?
Boston Police Strike
4. How/Why did many American feel about radical groups such as socialists, anarchists, and communists?
-The Red Scare
-The Palmer Raids
5. How were immigrants effected by the increased fear of foreigners?
-Emergency Immigration Act of 1921/Immigration Act of 1924
-Ku Klux Klan
-American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
6. How were minorities effected by post war tension in the U.S.?
-African Americans
-Anti-Semitism/Anti-Defamation League
-Marcus Garvey-
Chapter 27: Did the Republican Era of the 1920s bring peace and prosperity to all?
1. President Harding’s “return to normalcy”
2. Teapot Dome Scandal
-Ohio Gang
What was the republic plan and how did it effect the U.S. economy?
3. Washington Naval Conference & Kellog Briand Pact-peace treaties, not very effective
Dawes Plan
Improved relations with Latin America-Colombia, Dominican Republic, Denounce Roosevelt Corollary
4. How were many American prospering?
Henry Ford & Mass Production
Ford Model T
Dow Jones Industrial Average
What groups were left out of the economic boom?
Chapter 28: What social trends and innovations shaped popular culture during the1920s?
1. Why is the decade of the 1920s often referred to as the “Roaring 20s”?
2. Trends in advertising and new production
credit/installment buying
George Washington Carver
3. Trends in transportation
airplanes
Charles Lindberg
Amelia Earhart
Henry Ford/Model T/Assembly Line/Mass Production
4. Trends in Mass Media
Radio (NBC/RCA)
Movies
Charlie Chaplin
The Jazz Singer
5. Woman’s Rights & Opportunities
6. Music & The Jazz Age
The Cotton Club
Duke Ellington/Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
7. Literature & Art
The Harlem Renaissance/ Langston Hughes
The Lost Generation/ Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald/The Great Gatsby
Georgia O’Keeffe
8. Sports
Babe Ruth
Gertrude Ederle
Chapter 29: How did social, economic, and religious tensions divide Americans during the Roaring
Twenties?
1. During the 1920s the U.S. was divided
traditionalist
modernist
2. How did prosperity effect most American in the 1920s? What group was left out?
3. How did things change for the youth of America in the 1920s?
Flappers
4. Prohibition/The 18th Amendment
The Volstead Act
5. How did many American undermine Prohibition?
Bootlegging
Speakeasies
Eugenics
The Scopes Monkey Trial
6. Intelligent Design