1. The 1920s United States History

2. Politics of the 1920s • Warren G. Harding • Calvin Coolidge • Andrew Mellon • Herbert Hoover • Dawes Plan • Washington Conference • Ohio Gang • Teapot Dome Scandal • Supply-Side Economics • Isolationism • Kellogg-Briand Pact

3. New Industrial America • Henry Ford • Mass Production • Consumer Economy • Charles Lindbergh • Radio Industry • Mass Advertising • Managerial System • Welfare Capitalism • Open Shop • Consumer Credit

4. Cultural Values • Sacco-Vanzetti • New Ku Klux Klan • Emergency Quota Act (1921) • National Origins Act (1924) • Roles of Women • Fundamentalism • Evolution v. Creationism • Scopes Trial • Prohibition • Speakeasies • Bootleggers

5. Cultural Movements • Modern Art • Influence of Europe • Poets and Writers • Varying Styles • “Disillusionment w/ war” • “Society’s Superficiality” • “Ignorance of classes” • Talkies • The Jazz Singer (1927) • Songwriters • Tin Pan Alley • Radio Broadcasts • Role of Mass Media • Unification through shared ideas/attitudes • Sports • New Technologies

6. African American Culture • Impact of Great Migration • Harlem Renaissance • Writers • Claude McKay (Proud Defiance/Hatred of Racism) • Langston Hughes • Zora Neale Hurston • Painting • Historical Roots • Shared Identity • Culture • Harlem Renaissance • Jazz & Blues • Dixieland blues and ragtime • Rhythms & Beats • Louis Armstrong • Duke Ellington • Cotton Club • Theater • Apollo Theater • “Shuffle Along” (1921)

7. African American Politics • Voting Impact • Oscar DePriest (Chicago) • NAACP • Battled against segregation • Marcus Garvey’s “Black Nationalism” • UNIA: Universal Negro Improvement Association • Black culture and tradition, separation from white society • Middle-class and Intellectuals distanced selves from Garvey • Alienated Harlem Renaissance figures as “weak-kneed” to white society