Guided Reading – Chapter 20

Chapter 20 – The Twenties

My Answer / Question / Additional Notes From Class Discussion
1.
What industry sparked growth of the economy after WWI? (p. 660)
2.
Describe Henry Ford’s use of scientific management and the assembly line to produce the Model T. (p. 661)
3.
What is meant by the consumer revolution of the 1920s? (p. 663)
4. How is installment buying different from buying on the margin? (p. 664)
5.
What 2 factors led to more people to move to the suburbs in the 1920s? (p. 664)
6.
What were features of Sec. of Treasury Andrew Mellon’s economic policy ? (p. 666)
7.
How did Harding and Mellon approach regulation of business? (p. 667)
8.
What was the Ohio Gang? Why did Harding rely on them so much? (p. 667)
9.
What action did Sec. of Interior Albert Fall take that led to the Teapot Dome Scandal? (pp. 667-668)
10.
Following his death, who replaced Warren Harding as President and how did this man differ from Harding ? (p. 668)
11.
Describe Coolidge’s approach to the economy. (p. 669)
12.
What was the pledge made in the Kellogg-Briand Pact, how many nations signed it, and why was it flawed? (p. 670)
13.
What was the Dawes Plan and how was it supposed to in the end benefit the United States? (p. 670)
14.
What was modernism? (p. 671)
15.
What was fundamentalism ? (p. 672)
16.
What issue was debated in the Scopes trial? Who was the defense attorney? Who served as an expert witness for the prosecution? (p. 672)
17.
What 3 events promoted the nativist ideas in the US? What 2 laws were passed as a result of the nativist’s strength? (p. 673)
18.
Other than targeting African Americans, who did the new revived Ku Klux Klan also target? (p. 675)
19.
Explain the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. (p. 677)
20.
Who were bootleggers and how did Prohibition support this illegal activity? When was Prohibition repealed?(p. 678)
21.
What was the Jazz Singer? (p. 681)
22.
Who was Charles Lindbergh and what was the name of his plane? (p. 682)
23.
What changes did the flapper symbolize in the 1920s? (pp. 683-184)
24.
What did Sigmund Freud believe about human behavior? (p. 685)
25.
Why were American writers of the 1920’s referred to as the Lost Generation? (p. 686)
26.
What did F. Scott Fitzgerald write?
What did Ernest Hemingway write?
(pp. 686-687)
27.
Who was Marcus Garvey and what did he promote in terms of race relations? (p. 691)
28.
What is jazz? (p. 691)
29.
Who was Louis Armstrong? (p. 692)
30.
What was the Harlem Renaissance? (p. 693)
31.
Who was Langston Hughes? (p. 694)