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©2015
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173 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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The noble experiment. The Temperance Movement and Prohibition -- Speakeasies -- Bootleggers -- Al Capone and organized crime -- Repeal of Prohibition -- Leave America alone. Isolationism -- The Red Scare -- Nativism -- Labor unrest -- Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan -- A return to normalcy. Warren G. Harding -- Tea Pot Dome, The Ohio Gang and other scandals -- Calvin Coolidge -- Changing America. Flappers -- The changing American family -- The rise of Fundamentalism -- The Scopes trial -- The future is now. Electricity and its impact -- Mass production and mass marketing -- The rise of radio -- Every man a traveler. The rise of the automobile -- The rise of the airline industry -- Charles Lindberg -- A renaissance in Harlem. The Great Migration -- The Harlem Renaissance -- Langston Hughes -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Marcus Garvey and James Weldon Johnson -- Satchmo and The Duke -- Louis Armstrong -- Duke Ellington -- The Cotton Club -- Gatsby, Hemingway and the expatriates -- F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Great Gatsby -- Ernest Hemingway -- Other notable authors of the 1920 -- You ain't heard nothin' yet. Entertainment in the 1920s -- Babe Ruth -- Jack Dempsey -- Bobby Jones
A ten-unit workbook focusing on the events and notable people of 1920s United States; includes student activities with answer key