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The 1920's
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8th Grade Social Studies Study Guide
Unit 8 – The 1920’s
Important People, Terms, and Places (know what it is and its significance)
Warren G. Harding
Ku Klux Klan
Red Scare
A. Mitchell Palmer
Jazz Age
Marcus Garvey
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughs
Prohibition
Speakeasies
Flappers
Calvin Coolidge
Scopes Trial
Sacco and Vanzetti
Herbert Hoover
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Installment buying
Anarchist
Communism
Charles Chaplin
Fads
Ernest Hemingway
Louis Armstrong
Babe Ruth
The Lost Generation
Amelia Earhart
You should be able to write an essay discussing the following:
How isolationism and fear of communism affected United States foreign and domestic policy
The effect fads and new technologies and industries, ( automobiles, radio, movies) had on Americans
How writers of the “Lost Generation” depicted the evils and excesses of American society
How the development of the Harlem Renaissance celebrated a rebirth of African American culture
The ways that America celebrated different heroes such as Linbergh, Ruth, Bobby Jones, etc….
The effect prohibition had on American society
Important Dates to Remember
1919- 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
1920 – 19th Amendment ( Woman’s Suffrage)
Warren G. Harding elected (Return to Normalcy)
First commercial radio station begins broadcasting
1923 – Teapot Dome Scandal
Harding dies in office, Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes President
1924 – Immigration Quota Act
1925 – Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti executed
First Talkie – The Jazz Singer
Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight
1929 – Stock Market Crashes