THE TWENTIES:  CULTURE
Questions/Thinking Points

1.  How did the American economy change after World War I?
2.  What contributions to Henry Ford make to the popularity of cars in America?
3.  How did competition evolve in the auto industry?
4.  What changes did A. P. Gianinni make in the banking industry?
5.  How did radio broadcasts change over the 1920s?
6.  How did motion pictures, radio, and sports create the "celebrity," and what effect in turn did these celebrities have on American culture?
7.  What image did women project in the 1920s?
8.  What factors helped create and shape a youth culture in the 1920s?
9.  How did the urbanization of America promote fundamentalism?
10.  How did the ideas of Freud and Darwin challenge traditional values?
11.  What was the signifiance of the Scopes Trial?
12.  What factors combined to produce a "Red Scare"?
13.  What actions did Americans take to protect "American values" in the 1920s?
14.  How did the "new" KKK differ from the old, and what happened to diminish its popularity in the latter years of the decade?
15.  How did Prohibition affect respect for the law?
16.  What kind of challenge did the "modern" artists of The Armory Show pose to conventional art?
17.  Know the following individuals and their work:
H. L. Mencken
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Edna St. Vincent Millay
T. S. Eliot
18.  How did the ethos of the Harlem Renaissance differ from that of the white community?
19.  Be able to identify the following individuals and their work:
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington

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