American History Honors

Review Checklist for The Roaring Twenties (Chapters 20 & 21)

Politics of the 1920s

• Major notes from Harding and Coolidge presidencies (remember the DVD?)
• Scandals in the Harding Administration, especially Teapot Dome
• Washington Naval Conference
• Dawes Plan
• Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928

Rise of Nativism / Red Scare

• Quota Laws of 1921 & 1924
• A. Mitchell Palmer
• Why was there a red scare?
• Tactics of the KKK? Groups targeted?
• Results of the red scare on unions?

Mass Consumption Economy – Automobiles, Radio, etc.

• Growth of cities
• Airplanes – first use?
• How were automobiles made affordable?
• Why did the 1920s economy seem great, but in fact, was not?
• Installment plans / buying on credit

Prohibition/Gangsterism and Fundamentalism

• Why was prohibition difficult? Know major information from your group discussion
• Scopes Monkey Trial and significance?

Women in the 1920s (Flappers!)

• What does your book say was the “double standard”?
• What was a “flapper”?

Harlem Renaissance

• NAACP / goals / James Weldon Johnson
• UNIA / Marcus Garvey – goals?
• Racial problems as a result of the Great Migration

Miscellaneous

• “Lost Generation” of writers?