1920’s Research TopicsSports, etc Women’s CollegateGrowth of spectatorsportsBabe RuthJack DempseyCharles LindberghGertrude Ederle

WomenNineteenth Amendment Equal Rights AmendmentAimee Semple McPhersonLeague of Women VotersNational Women’s PartyFlappersMargaret Sanger/Birth Control/Eugenics/Comstock Act

BusinessHenry FordAssembly line/mass productionLabor unions/strikesChild laborAndrew Mellon2nd industrial revolutionPersonal debtFarming/Fordney-McCumber Tariff

Politics/Issues Teapot Dome Scandal Gangsters/Al Capone Racism/KKKCalvin CoolidgeHerbert HooverProhibition/BootleggersNational Origins Quota Act of 1924Immigration Act of 1921NAACPAl SmithCommunism/Red ScareSacco and VanzettiPalmer RaidsScopes trial (evolution) Clarence DarrowH.L. Mencken (journalist)Election of 1928Boston police strikeUrban vote and DemocratsLiteracyRural “counterattack”FundamentalismWarren Harding“return to normalcy” Marcus GarveyStock Market Crash of 1929Race riots (Oklahoma)Poverty Eugenics MovementUrban liberalismFederal Bureaucracy HedonismMass entertainmentMass consumer culture Race

Medicine InsulinAntibotics

Arts/Culture 1920’s writers T.S. Eliot Eugene O’Neill H.L. Mencken F. Scott Fitzgerald Sherwood Anderson Edith Wharton Claude McKay John Dos Passos Ernest Hemingway Sinclair Lewis Willa Cather Langston HughesLost Generation of writers Advertising (cigarettes, etc.)Radio broadcasting1920’s art Edward Hopper Movie industry Charles LindberghHarlem RenaissanceJazz AgeAaron CoplandGeorge GershwinFrank Lloyd Wright

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