AP/IB US HISTORY - Mr. Ludlam

ASSIGNMENT SHEET #16: The Perils of Prosperity, 1918 - 1929

AMERICAN PAGEANT: Chap. 30, 31, 32 pp. 692-719, 720-734

READ, THINK, and PARTICIPATE DAILY:

History Disciplinary Practices and Reasoning Skills (HDPRS) and Thematic Learning Objectives (TLO) - Daily

Identify and explain how one of the HDPRS’s applies to the information from your reading.

Identify and explain how one of the seven TLO’s applies to the information from your reading.

Connect a HDPRS and TLO based on the information from your reading.

Beginning of each chapter - Must Know and Must Understand

End of each chapter – Chronology and/or Varying Viewpoint (If VV read first before reading chapter)

QUESTIONS: Think about and answer

  1. Read pp. 714-715 on Modernism– be prepared to talk about this on Day 1
  2. What is the meaning of Harding’s words (p. 692)?
  3. How did the case against Sacco and Vanzetti divide the country?
  4. What is the meaning of the political cartoon on page 695?
  5. Analyze the immigration chart on page 696.
  6. What do the Red Scare, Prohibition, Immigration Acts, and the KKK have in common?
  7. Why was prohibition difficult to enforce? What were the positives of the 18th Amendment?
  8. How did the Scopes Trial expose the conflict between fundamentalism and modernism?
  9. How did buying on credit effect the American economy?
  10. Why would Ford’s ideas improve all parts of American industry?
  11. What impact did the automobile have on American society?
  12. How were women more free personally during the 1920’s?
  13. What did the music, art, and literature of the 1920’s have in common?
  14. How did film and radio make the country smaller?
  15. How did Republican pro business attitudes affect the economy and workers?
  16. What was the goal of the Washington Naval Conference?
  17. Describe the connection between government tariff and business policies.
  18. What issues affected farmers and how did they try to improve their economic standing?
  19. Why was the South less solid during the election of 1928?
  20. How did economic policies of the 1920’s lead to the Great Depression?
  21. Why does the stock market crash signify the end of the “Roaring Twenties”?
  22. ASK AND ANSWER YOUR OWN QUESTION

At the end of this unit, you must be able to answer the following question.

The 1920’s were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and traditional values and nostalgia on the other. What led to the tension between old and new AND in what ways was the tension manifested?

Fundamentalism v. Modernism: ID each cultural term and then determine whether the ID represents fundamentalism or modernism

IDENTIFICATIONS: What or who is it and why is it important - THINK SIGNIFICANCE - connect to others

All Students are responsible for presenting at least two of the following terms in class – first come, first served for choices

Culture

  1. Election of 1920
  2. Red Scare
  3. Mitchell Palmer
  4. IWW
  5. “American plan”
  6. Sacco and Vanzetti
  7. KKK
  8. Emergency Quota Act of 1921
  9. Immigration Act of 1924
  10. Prohibition
  11. 18th Amendment
  12. Volstead Act
  13. Wet v. Dry
  14. Gangsters
  15. Scopes Trial
  16. Advertising
  17. Bruce Barton
  18. Popularity of Sports
  19. Henry Ford / Autos
  20. Charles Lindbergh
  21. Radio
  22. Hollywood / Movies
  23. Margaret Sanger / birth control
  24. Alice Paul / ERA
  25. Flappers
  26. Music / jazz
  27. Harlem Renaissance
  28. Marcus Garvey - UNIA
  29. Literature, authors, works, ideas

Politics

  1. Election of 1920
  2. Stock market/buying on margin
  3. Mellon’s tax policies
  4. President Harding
  5. Normalcy
  6. Harding’s Cabinet
  7. Supreme Court
  8. Adkins v. Children’s Hospital

  1. “Bonus bill”
  2. Washington Naval Conference
  3. 5,4,9 Power Treaty
  4. Kellogg-Briand Pact
  5. Fordney-McCumber Tariff
  6. Veterans Bureau scandal
  7. Teapot Dome scandal
  8. Harry Daugherty

  1. Coolidge Prosperity
  2. Farm issues
  3. Election of 1924
  4. Dawes Plan of 1924
  5. Election of 1928
  6. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
  7. Stock Market crash