ISSUES TO UNDERSTAND
After reading the chapter, you should be able to discuss the following:
1. Causes of the economic growth and prosperity of the 1920s
2. Ways in which business influenced American life and values
in the 1920s
3. How economic, technological, cultural, and social changes affected
women in the twenties
4. Who benefited most and least from the prosperity
5. Why agriculture was depressed during the twenties
6. The corruption of the Harding years and the pro-business attitudes
of both the Harding and Coolidge
administrations
7. U .S. foreign policy in the 1920s
8. Indications that some progressive reform impulses remained in the
1920s
9. What happened to the feminist movement in the twenties
10. Impact of the economic and social changes of the 1920s on the
environment
and natural resources
11. Cultural and social changes in the 1920s
12. Achievements in the arts and sciences
13. Political, social, and artistic activities of northern, urban black
Americans during the decade
14. Indications of social conflicts and intolerance in American society
in the 1920s
15. Candidates, issues, and outcome of the election of 1928
16. Herbert Hoover's social thought and how it hindered him in fighting
the depression
VOCABULARY
The following terms are used in Chapter 24. To understand the chapter fully, it is important that you know what each of them means.
scabs workers who both refuse to cooperate with labor unions and
take
strikers' jobs
isolationist one who favors a policy of nonparticipation in
international
affairs
suffrage the vote
materialistic more devoted to accumulating products and possessions
than to spiritual needs and considerations
iconoclasm the attacking of others' cherished beliefs and practices
expatriates persons who have withdrawn themselves from residence in
their native country
cant insincere statements of goodness or high ideals
eclectic selected from different sources; selecting and using what
is considered best from many different styles or systems
nativism the policy of protecting the interests or ways of native
inhabitants
against those of immigrants; prejudice against or dislike for
immigrants
charismatic possessing personal qualities that give an individual
influence
or authority over large numbers of people
fundamentalism a movement in American Protestantism that preaches that
everything in the Bible is literally true and rejects any historical
account
or scientific theory that differs rom biblical statements
speakeasies places where liquor was illegally sold and consumed
anachronistic referring to a thing placed out of its proper time;
referring
to a hangover from an earlier era
Chapter 24
IDENTIFICATIONS
After reading Chapter 24, you should be able to identify and explain the significance of each of the following:
Henry Ford
The open shop and the "American Plan"
The farm bloc and the McNary-Haugen bill :
Teapot Dome and the other scandals of the Harding administration
Fordney-McCumber (1922) and Smoot-Hawley (1930) tariffs
Andrew Mellon
Charles Evans Hughes and the Washington Naval Arms Conference
Robert La Follette and the Progressive party
Jane Addams and the Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom
Alice Paul and the National Woman 's party
Florence Kelley and the National Consumers' League
Oscar De Priest
Charles A. Lindbergh
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sinclair Lewis
Ernest Hemingway
Willa Cather
Thomas Hart Benton
Edward Hopper
George Gershwin
Duke Ellington
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
The Immigration Acts and the national-origins quota system
John T. Scopes and the "monkey trial"
Aimee Semple McPherson