Cultural Change and Conflict in the 1920s

Tues/Wed, 5/5-6: Read 720-731 Cultural Conflict in the 1920s
1. How did World War I affect the political climate of the 1920s, especially for socialists?
2. In what ways did the 1920s see a rise in Nationalism and what were the results of this rise?
3. Why was prohibition finally enacted?  What were the results?
4. In what ways was this a era a period of cultural conflict between traditionalists and modernists?

Thursday, 5/7 Test: Progressivism, Imperialism and WWI

Fri/Mon, 5/8-11 Read 732 - 745.  The Birth of Mass Culture
1. What were the prevailing political moods, policies, and issues of the 1920s?
2. How did consumerism and “mass culture” affect American culture?
3. What new entertainments emerged during the 1920s?
4. What were the prominent developments and authors in literature?
5. Was this a period of increasing personal freedom and liberty, or of social control and oppression?

Monday 5/11 Term Paper Outline Due.




Know the significance of the following: open shop; welfare capitalism; National Association of Manufacturers; Henry Ford; Warren Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Smoot-Hawley Tariff; Teapot Dome; Kellog-Briand Pact Herbert Hoover; “rugged individualism”; Al Smith; jazz; Jelly Roll Morton; Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington; the Charleston; George Gershwin; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway; Sinclair Lewis; T.S. Eliot; Langston Hughes; Thomas Hart Benton; Edward Hopper; Georgia O’Keefe; Alfred Steiglist; Social Conflicts; Red Scare; National Origins Act; Ku Klux Klan; Great Migration; Harlem Renaissance; Marcus Garvey; Scopes Trial; 18th Amendment; Volstead Act; Margaret Sanger