APUSH: Chapter 23Key Terms
Key Concept 7.2: A revolution in communications and transportation technology helped to create a new mass culture and spread “modern” values and ideas, even as cultural conflicts between groups increased under the pressure of migration, world wars, and economic distress.
Key Concept 7.2-1: New technologies led to social transformations that improved the standard of living for many while contributing to increased political and cultural conflicts.
A. New technologies contributed to improved standards of living, greater personal mobility, and better communications systems.
-Radio -motion pictures -automobiles -vacuum cleaners -sewing machines
B. Technological change, modernization, and changing demographics led to increased political and cultural conflict on several fronts: tradition versus innovation, urban versus rural, fundamentalist Christianity versus scientific modernism, management versus labor, native-born versus new immigrants, white versus black, and idealism versus disillusionment.
-Evolution -Scopes Monkey Trial -Sacco & Vanzetti -Ku Klux Klan
C. The rise of an urban, industrial society encouraged the development of a variety of culturalexpressions for migrant, regional, and African American artists (expressed most notably in the Harlem Renaissance movement); it also contributed to national culture by making shared experiences more possible through art, cinema, and the mass media.
-Dizzy Gillespie -Edward Hopper --jazz age -Langston Hughes -Zora Neal Hurston
Below is a more complete list of terms and concepts for Chapter 23. Make sure these are in your outlines.
- automobile/Henry Ford/Model T/General Motors Corporation
- assembly-line production/Fordism/corporate consolidation
- advertising/credit/installment buying
- wage discrimination/ “women’s professions”
- Warren G. Harding/Teapot Dome/Calvin Coolidge/Andrew Mellon
- Washington Naval Arms Conference/Kellogg-Briand Pact/Dawes Plan
- League of Women Voters/National Woman’s Party
- Vacuum cleaners/refrigerators/washing machines/tractors/automobile suburbs
- Radio/National Broadcasting Company (NBC)/Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
- Movies/Cecil B. DeMille/The Jazz Singer/Walt Disney/Hollywood
- Babe Ruth/Ty Cobb/Jack Dempsey/Charles Lindbergh/The Spirit of St. Louis
- Sexual revolution/flappers/Jazz Age/F. Scott Fitzgerald/The Great Gatsby
- Sinclair Lewis/Main Street/Babbitt/H.L. Mencken/Ernest Hemingway/Willa Cather
- Harlem Renaissance/Langston Hughes/The Cotton Club/Louis Armstrong
- Georgia O’Keefe/Aaron Copland/George Gershwin/Robert Goddard
- National Origins Act/Sacco-Vanzetti case/nativism
- Protestant fundamentalism/Scopes monkey trial/Billy Sunday/Aimee Semple McPherson
- Ku Klux Klan/Marcus Garvey/Universal Negro Improvement Association
- Prohibition/Volstead Act/speakeasies/Al Capone
- Election of 1928/Al Smith/Herbert Hoover/American Individualism
Be prepared to write a thesis and essay outline for each of these topics.
- What economic developments helped to bring about the boom years of the “Roaring Twenties?” To what extent did women and labor unions benefit from this growth?
- How and why did a “mass culture” emerge in America in the 1920s? Offer three specific examples of cultural developments in the decade of the “Roaring Twenties”.
- How did nativism, racism, and fundamentalism create social tensions in America in the 1920s?
- What factors brought on the Great Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression which followed it? How would you assess President Hoover’s response to the crisis?