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Reading Guide - Chapter 23 1920s
1. Compare and Contrast.(Compare/ Contrast each Presidency)
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
2. Summarize the Business Doctrine
3. What was ironic about the campaign promises and election of Herbert
Hoover in 1928?
4. Evaluate the economic situation of the 1920s.
A. Productivity
B. Technologies
C. Government Policy
5. How were “Farm Problems” being addressed in the 1920s?
6. How were “Labor
Problems” being addressed
in the 1920s?
7. How were demographics changing in the 1920s?
8. Explain “Consumerism”
9. Describe the impact of the automobile.
10.
List 4 new elements to entertainment:
A. List 2 popular heroes of the age and what they were famous for
accomplishing:
11.
Gender Roles, Family and Education: List and FULLY explain 5
major changes in these areas.
12.
What is Modernism?
13.
What is Fundamentalism?
14.
List 5 facts about the Harlem Renaissance:
A. List 3 Major Harlem Renaissance Artist & their Art Forms
15.
Who was Marcus Garvey?
A. Explain his movement
B. How did the rest of the black progressive respond?
16.
What was the Scopes Trial? (be specific)
17.
Explain the 18th Amendment of 1919
A. What was the actual effect?
B. Why was it repealed and when?
18.
Explain the “Nativist” Agenda
19.
Describe and explain the Quota Laws
20.
Summarize the important case of Sacco and Vanzetti.
THIS trial so polarizing?
Why was
21.
List 5 facts you think are the most important about the Klan in
this era. Different? Same?
22.
What is meant by “Fiction of Isolation”?
23.
Explain the
24.
Explain the Nine Power Treaty:
25.
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Four Power Treaty:
Explain in DETAIL the Kellogg -Briand Pact
A. Evaluate its success? WHY?
26.
27.
Explain America’s concerns in Latin America in the 1920s.
Explain America’s concerns in the Middle East in the 1920s.
28.
****Explain the effects of Tariffs on the American economy and
the world economy in the 1920s.
29.
What were the problems with paying the war debts and
reparations?
A. Explain the Dawes Plan?
B. Legacy?