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.