1920s Test Guide
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Text: Ch. 20
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Other resources:
notes, video sheet “Boom to Bust”, all homework
Society in the 1920s
- Identify several factors that made life difficult after
World War I
- How did the flapper represent women’s changing roles?
- Changes in demographics- to where were Americans
moving?
- American heroes- Why did Americans look to heroes?
Mass Media and the Jazz Age
- Define mass media; Role of mass media in creating a
national culture
- 1st “talkie”; 1st radio station
- Hollywoodland sign
- Explain the role of advertising in the 1920s
- Harlem Renaissance
Cultural Conflicts
Explain
the split between urban and rural America; making progress but resisting
changes
The Red Scare
- What was it?
- How did Sacco and Vanzetti represent America’s fear of
foreign, radical ideas?
Prohibition
- Amendment? Goals?
- How did it represent urban vs rural lifestyle
- % of NY vs Kansas who followed the amendment
- Negative outcomes of prohibition: bootleggers,
speakeasies, organized crime
Religion
- How did the Scopes Trial represent urban vs rural
religious beliefs
- Evolution vs Fundamentalism
Racial Tensions
- Why did membership of the KKK rise to 4 million?
- How did this represent a clash between urban and rural
attitudes about race?
(KKK
vs Harlem Renaissance)
A Consumer Economy
- Define above
- Explain the ripple effect of increased spending in an
economy
- Explain credit/ installment plan
- Explain how Henry Ford democratized the auto; identify
2 ways that he was able
to
maximize his profits
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Identify the economic impact of the auto on various industries
The Economy in the late 1920s
- Who won the 1928 election? What was his belief about
the economy?
- Identify the economic danger signs of the decade
- uneven prosperity: industry, wealth, income
- role of personal debt
- Playing stock market- speculation, buying
on margin
- overproduction
- hardships for farmers
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