Ayers Chapter 23 Review
"The Age of Jazz and Mass Culture" (1921-1927)

Terms

Sacco and Vanzetti
immigration quotas
KKK
Marcus Garvey
Prohibition
Washington Conference
Teapot Dome
Harlem Renaissance
Scopes trial
eugenics
1927--Lindbergh, Babe Ruth The Jazz Singer

Questions to Consider

1. What were the roots of the cultural tensioins of the 1920s that anti-immigration, the KKK, and the revolt against urban values reflected?
2. What accounted for the flowering of the arts and culture during this period?
3. Although the 1920s were prosperous, not all sections of American life share din the bounty. Why was the depressed state of agriculture so important?