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Review: American Pageant Chapter 31: the 1920s.
“Red Scare”
Palmer Raids
Bolshevism
“American Plan”
Sacco and Vanzetti
Ku Klux Klan
Quota Acts:
1921 (aka Johnson Act)
*who is being kept/thrown out of the U.S. and why?
18th Amendment
Volstead Act
Speakeasy
*impact of Prohibition on crime, society, etc.
Scopes Trial
Fundamentalism
John Dewey (again)
Unions in the 1920s
Welfare capitalism
*causes of prosperity
Andrew Mellon
Henry Ford
Babe Ruth
Frederick W. Taylor
Assembly line
Standardization
*impact of the automobile
cultural pluralism
Wright brothers
Charles A. Lindbergh
Radio
Birth of a Nation
1924 (aka Johnson-Reid Act)
The Jazz Singer
Margaret Sanger
Anthony Comstock – Comstock laws
19th Amendment
Alice Paul
Flapper
Sigmund Freud
Jazz
Marcus Garvey
UNIA
H.L. Mencken
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
NOTE: writers such as Hemingway and Eliot who moved to Europe, usually because of their
dislike of American materialism, are referred to as the “Lost Generation.”
Sherwood Anderson
William Faulkner
e.e. cummings
Langston Hughes
Frank Lloyd Wright
Harlem Renaissance – causes of its rise and decline
“New Negro”
Bessie Smith
Aaron Douglas
Final section on the stock market will be part of the next chapter test.