1920s Study Guide

People

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti-

Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin-

Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney-

Babe Ruth and Lou Gerhig-

Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington-

Langston Hughes-

Flappers-

Charles Lindbergh-

John Scopes-

Clarence Darrow-

William Jennings Bryan-

Things

Jazz-

Red Scare-

The Jazz Singer-

The Scopes Trial-

Bootlegging-

Speakeasies-

Harlem Renaissance-

Questions

Why was there a wave of anti-immigrant feelings in the US during the ‘20s?

Why did the Sacco-Vanzetti Trial outrage the world?

Why was there an entertainment boom in the U.S. in the ‘20s?

What/when was Prohibition? How did people get alcohol? Why did it fail?

What is the difference between conservatives and liberals? How and why did this create a conflict between the city and the country? Use Prohibition, the Monkey Trial, jazz and women as examples.

Explain ways the lives of women change during the 1920s.

How are Christian Fundamentalists of the 1920s and Muslim Fundamentalists of today similar?

What happened to the KKK during the 1920s? What kind of factors helped contribute to this?