 Al Smith and the Election of 1928
 Birth of a Nation , Nativism & The return of the
Ku Klux Klan (causes)
 Bootlegging and Organized Crime, Speakeasies and prohibition
 Calvin “Silent Cal” Coolidge & the Business of
America - Republican Resurgence (reading)
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Mass Consumption & Mass Production. Mass media.
Modernism and the root of social changes
Prohibition & the impact of Prohibition
(speakeasies, organized crime, etc)
 Jazz music
 Urban/Rural (liberal/conservative) divide
 Divergent viewpoints on WWI and its influence on the 1920s (rural vs. urban)… The
Modern Temper (reading)
 Speakeasies , Bootlegging and the 18 th
Amendment
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The influence of advertising and radio on the emerging mass market
The Ohio Gang & the corruption under
Harding (Tea Pot Dome)
Warren G. Harding & the ‘return to normalcy’
 Flappers
 Einstein as causing a shift in perception/reality
 Henry Ford and the Model T
 Hoover as Secretary of Commerce and
Isolationism & the post-war period
 Influence of Immigration and the Great
Migration & Harlem
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William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, and the Scopes Trial
Election of 1928 as representative of the sociocultural divide in the nation
Xenophobia, Nativism, & anti-immigrant feeling
Quota Laws & Emergency Immigration Act
We have examined the 1920s both in detail and as an idea. Be aware of the 1920s as a concept …a period of alienation extending from the war, and the rapid paced shift to a modern America.
These rapid shifts caused various reactions in rural areas and urban areas. Try to understand why these changes in society caused the divergent perspectives on society (liberal minded/conservative minded).
 How is the concept of “cultural miscegenation” displayed in the 1920s? Choose one example and explain in depth.
 How did the economic decisions of the 1920s help lead to the Great Depression?
 What is the Second Industrial Revolution? What makes it possible?
 The sense of alienation following World War I led to a transformation of American society in the 1920s to be more starkly divided between urban and rural values. Choose an event or events that display this divide and an explain them.