AP U.S. HISTORY I
NAME ________________________
CH. 31 REVIEW SHEET: AMERICAN LIFE IN THE ROARING TWENTIES, 1919-1929
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a return to normalcy: Harding’s slogan in the election of 1920 [note quote, p. 720]
Bolshevik or red: a communist
closed shop: agreement that union membership was required for employment
open shop: agreement that union membership wasn’t required for employment
the Volstead Act: national law establishing Prohibition
the great Red Scare
1. American assumptions about communists and strikes c. 1919?
A. Mitchell Palmer and the Palmer Raids?
2. the Wall Street bomb?
3. the anti-red laws? criticism of these laws?
4. the Sacco-Vanzetti Case (Boston, 1927)?
[in Washington, fear of “reds” had much to do with both the Everett Massacre of 1916 and the Centralia
Massacre of 1919]
the KKK returns [note photograph, p. 722]
5. what did the Klan oppose? whom did it support?
6. the centers of Klan influence?
7. the end of the Klan’s resurgence?
immigration in the twenties
8. the source of most immigration, c. 1920?
9. the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
10. the Immigration Act of 1924?
11. the impact of the 1924 act on total immigration? on the sources of immigration? [note graph, p. 724]
12. “cultural pluralists” and immigration?
the Eighteenth Amendment establishes Prohibition
13. supporters of Prohibition?
14. opposition to Prohibition?
15. problems in enforcing the law?
16. Prohibition’s successes?
17. Prohibition and crime? [in particular, note Al Capone’s impact on Chicago]
twenties education and the Scopes Trial
18. American youth and high school education?
19. John Dewey’s impact on education?
20. conflict between Fundamentalists and Darwinists?
21. the cause of the Scopes Trial?
22. William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow at the trial?
23. the trial’s outcome?
the American economy in the 1920’s
24. advertising in the twenties?
25. Bruce Barton’s idea in The Man Nobody Knows?
26. professional sports? [note Babe Ruth in particular here]
27. the impact of easy credit?
28. Henry Ford’s production technique for cars? its impact on prices? [note graph, p. 734]
29. the American share of world car ownership c. 1929?
30. the impact of the car on the American economy? on railroads?
the social impact of the car:
31. on women?
32. on suburbs?
33. on youth?
34. the inventors of the airplane?
35. Charles Lindbergh’s feat (1927)?
36. the impact of the airplane on the railroads? on American security from potential foes?
37. new means of communication?
38. KDKA? the impact of the radio?
39. The Jazz Singer’s significance? [note analysis, p . 739] the impact of the movies?
social change in the twenties
40. where did most Americans live by 1920?
41. women and work in the twenties?
42. the work of Margaret Sanger?
43. flapper style for women?
44. music in the twenties?
45. the Harlem Renaissance [Harlem is part of New York City’s Manhattan Island]
46. Langston Hughes’s work? [note poem, p. 743]
47. Marcus Garvey and the UNIA?
American arts and letters in the twenties
48. H.L. Mencken?
49. F. Scott Fitzgerald? [note his emphasis on the young]
50. Ernest Hemingway? [note writing style; also WWI and aftermath]
51. Sinclair Lewis? [note satire in Babbitt]
52. Frank Lloyd Wright’s [Prairie School] architecture?
53. the Empire State Building (1929)?
54. [Not mentioned in your text, but important: the Chrysler Building. Also worth noting: the work of
painters Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler, and Georgia O’Keefe.]
the great bull market
55. [Wall Street terms: a “bull” is an investor who believes the stock market will go up; a “bear” one who
believes that it will go down]
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the general trend of the stock market in the twenties?
buying on margin?
the federal government and the economy
the Bureau of the Budget?
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon’s tax policies?
61. Mellon and the national debt? criticisms of Mellon?