Roaring Twenties note taking guide

Chapter 13:  Postwar Social Change (1920-1929)

Section 1:  Society in the 1920's

Women's Changing Role

Flapper-

    significance of these women-

    Societies opinion-

Women working and voting

    19th amendment-

Americans on the Move

Farmers migration

Growth of the suburbs

effect of transportation

demographics

Great Migration-

immigration-

    barrio-

Charles Lindbergh-

Amelia Earhart

Sports Heroes

Section 2:  Mass Media and the Jazz Age

mass media-

talkies-

tabloids-

radio-

Jazz Age-

    Harlem-

    Duke Ellington/Louis Armstrong

Painting-

    Edward Hopper/Rockwell Kent/Georgia O'Keeffe

Literature-

The Lost Generation-

Harlem Renaissance-

    James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes

Section 3:  Cultural Conflicts

18th amendment-

bootleggers-

speakeasies-

    side effects/results of prohibition-

    organized crime:

    gambling/prostitution/racketeering

    Al Capone (Scarface)-

Fundamentalism

Evolution and the Scopes Trial

Fundamentalists vs. modernists

Race Riot in Chicago-

Ku Klux Klan-

NAACP-

Marcus Garvey (UNIA)

Chapter 14:  Politics and Prosperity

Section 1:  A Republican Decade

Warren Harding and "The Red Scare"

Return to Normalcy-

communism

Red Scare Events

    1.  Schenck v. U.S.-

    2.  Gitlow v. New York-

    3.  The Palmer Raids-

    4.  Sacco and Vanzetti-

Harding Presidency

Foreign Policy

    Isolationism-

    disarmament-

Domestic Issues-

    Nativism

    quota-

The Teapot Dome Scandal-

Calvin Coolidge Presidency-

"The chief business of the American people is business"

    laissez-faire-

    Kellogg-Briand Pact-

Section 2:  A Business Boom

Consumer economy-

installment plans-

Gross National Product-

Henry Ford

    quadricycle-

    Model T-

    assembly line-

Section 3:  The Economy in the Late 1920's

Herbert Hoover-1928 election

welfare capitalism-

Economic Danger signs

    1.  Uneven Prosperity

    2.  Personal Debt

    3.  Playing the Stock Market

        Speculation-

        Buying on Margin

    4.  Too Many Goods, Too Little Demand

    5.  Trouble for Farmers and Workers