> Describe the reaction in the US to the perceived threat of communism.
> Describe Harding's efforts to return the US to "normalcy" after the progressive era reforms.
> Summarize the impact of the automobile and other consumer goods on the lifestyle of Americans.
> Explain how urbanization created a new way of life that often clashed with the values of traditional American rural society.
> Identify the causes and results of the changing roles of women in the 1920's
> Explain how schools, mass media, athletes, celebrities, artists, and writers contributed to American popular culture.
> Identify the causes and results of the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance.
1920's Vocabulary
lecture 5.1: America in 1920: Victory and Insecurity
lecture 5.2: American culture in the 1920s
lecture 5.3: Harlem Renaissance
Homework:
12.1 Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues: #1, 3
The Russian Revolution brings a Communist government to power. Many Americans fear that similar revolution will occur in the US. Political radicals and labor activits meet with increasing opposition.
12.2 "Normalcy" and Isolationism: #1-3
The Republicans return to isolationism and the kind of policies that had characterized the period before the reforms of the progressive era.
12.3 The Business of America: #2-4
During the prosperous 1920's the automobile industry and other industries flourish. Americans' standard of living rises to new hights
Americans experience cultural conflicts as customs and values change in the United States during the 1920's
13.2 The Twenties Woman #2 only
American women of hte 1920's persue new lifestyles and assume new jobs and different roles in society.
13.3 Education and Popular Culture: #1, 3-4
The mass media, movies, and spectator sports, play important roes in the popular culture of the 1920's.
13.4 The Harlem Renaissance #1, 3-4
African-American ideas, politics, art, and music all flourish in Harlem and elsewhere in the United States.