Unit Guide
History 7
Overall Purpose:
Explain why 1920s were a decade of extreme contrasts and cite various
ways in which this was evident.
A) What were the major factors that led the United States Senate to reject the Treaty of Versailles?
B) What economic problems did the country experience between 1919-1921? What factors contributed to these problems?
C) Identify the factors that led to widespread strikes in 1919.
D) Describe the racial violence that occurred in 1919.
E) Identify the factors that led to the “Red Scare” of 1919-1920.
F) Why did the Election of 1920 indicate the end of the Progressive Era?
G) Explain the factors that led to the business boom of the Twenties.
H) What new industries began during the decade?
I) In what ways was President Coolidge different from President Harding? In what ways were the two men similar?
J) How did the federal government support the development of big business?
K) What groups did not share in the prosperity of the decade? Explain why.
L) What were the main themes of A Farewell to Arms, The Great Gatsby, and the novels of Sinclair Lewis?
M) What factors tended to break down regionalism and form a national culture during the twenties?
N) What factors were indicative of a cultural division in the country? Describe this division.
O) How did the role of women change during the decade?
P) What factors led to the failure of prohibition?
Q) Describe the Scopes Monkey Trial.
R) Describe the efforts to limit immigration during the 1920s.
S) What factors led to the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan? How did the new Klan differ from the earlier Klan?
T) How did the Democratic Party suffer from the country’s cultural division?
Key Terms:
1) GNP
2) general strike
3) Calvin Coolidge
4) Palmer Raids
5) Sacco and Vanzetti
6) Henry Ford
7) Teapot Dome Scandal
8) Welfare Capitalism
9) “Lost Generation”
10) H.L. Mencken
11) Harlem Renaissance
12) KDKA
13) The Jazz Singer
14) Charles Lindbergh
15) Margaret Sanger
16) flapper
17) Al Capone
18) “Wets” and “Drys”
19) Twenty-First Amendment
20) fundamentalism
21) secular
22) Scopes Monkey Trial
23) nativism
24) D.C. Stephenson
25) Alfred E. Smith
26) Herbert Hoover