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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