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This unit covers
Chapters Twelve and Thirteen, here are some of the key concepts you can
focus on:
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Chapter 12
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- Fear of communism and postwar labor unrest
- Rising racial tension, anti-immigrant sentiment, and
the rise of the KKK
- Harding's presidency, and the turn to a pro-business
and isolationist style of government
- The major scandals of the Harding administration
- The growth of American business and its connection to
the policies of Calvin Coolidge
- The introduction of the automobile to mainstream
America, and the auto's impact on American Life
- The rising American standard of living and the new
consumer economy
- The use of new marketing methods, including
installment plans and mail order catalogs
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Chapter 13
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- Growing differences between rural and urban America
- Prohibition (18th Amendment) and its impact on
American life, from organized crime to jazz to speakeasies
- American Fundamentalism and the clash between science
and religion
- The newly liberated "Twenties Woman" and the changes
in American family life
- the development of mass media in the 1920's and the
ways it impacted popular culture, especially the emergence of the
"star" athlete, artist, musician, actor, etc.
- the ways in which jazz and the literature of the
"lost generation" both reflected and impacted American culture
- The Harlem Renaissance, and the ways its artists,
writers and musicians made a major contribution to American culture
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We will
take a 30-35 question multiple choice test on December 21st.
Speakeasy Costume Links:
McCall's
Fashion Timeline
Clothing
Gallery
of the 1920's
1920's
Fashion at Wikipedia
1920's Slang
Chart:
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all
wet-
wrong, a mistaken notion
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banana
oil-
nonsense
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bees
knees- a
superb person or thing
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belly
laugh- a
loud, uninhibited laugh
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big
cheese- an
important person
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bull
session-
informal group discussion
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bump
off- to
murder
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cake-eater-
ladies' man
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cat's
meow-
anything wonderful
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cheaters-
eyeglasses
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copacetic-
excellent
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darb- an
excellent person or thing
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gatecrasher- a
person who comes to a party uninvited
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dogs-
human feet
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dumb
dora- a
girl who is perceived to be unintelligent
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fall
guy- a
scapegoat who takes the blame for others
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flapper- a
typical young woman of the 20s, usually with bobbed hair, short skirts,
and rolled stockings
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drugstore
cowboy- a
fashionably dressed idler who hangs around trying to pick up girls
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gam- a
girl's leg
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flat
tire-
dull, boring person
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giggle
water- an
alcoholic drink
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hep- wise
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high-hat-to
snub
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hooch-
bootleg liqour
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horsefeathers-
nonsense
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hotsy-totsy-
pleasing
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jake- OK,
"Everything's jake"
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lounge
lizard-
ladies man
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ossified-
drunk
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pinch- to
arrest
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sheba- a
young woman with sex appeal
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sheik- a
young man with sex appeal
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smeller- the
nose
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speak-easy- a
saloon or club that serves hooch
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spifficated-
drunk
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struggle-buggy- a
car (from it use as a place where boys tried to seduce girls)
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torpedo-
hired gun man
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Other
slang words from the twenties that are in common use today: swanky,
swell, upchuck, lousy, whopee, kisser, main drag, neck, scram, ritzy,
hoofer, jalopy, goofy, gold digger, heebie-jeebies, blind date
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