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A ten-unit workbook focusing on the events and notable people of 1920s United States; includes student activities with answer key.
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History, Civilization, Social conditions, Histoire, Civilisation, Conditions socialesPlaces
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Reading through history: The Roaring Twenties
2015, [publisher not identified]
in English
1511531738 9781511531733
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Table of Contents
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.
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