{"id":34815,"date":"2023-09-28T05:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T05:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-twenties-can-be-described-as-a-decade-in-american-history-shaped-by-the-forces-of-modernism-and-fundamentalism\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T05:07:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T05:07:30","slug":"the-twenties-can-be-described-as-a-decade-in-american-history-shaped-by-the-forces-of-modernism-and-fundamentalism","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-twenties-can-be-described-as-a-decade-in-american-history-shaped-by-the-forces-of-modernism-and-fundamentalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cTwenties\u201d can be described as a decade in American History shaped by the forces of modernism and fundamentalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

(C. 23) The \u201cTwenties\u201d can be described as a decade in American History shaped by the forces of modernism and fundamentalism. Choose one of these ideologies and define it, as well as describing and discussing four examples (or more) of its expression in the decade.<\/span><\/p>\n


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I. Postwar America – 1919-1923
International insecurity
Economic strife
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II. The Transition to Modern America – 1923-1929
New Era Economy
The Second Industrial Revolution
From steam to electricity
Assembly-line mass production
The Automobile Industry; Henry Ford – Model T
Oil; roads; housing; multiple industries
Consumerism; Advertising
Radio: technology; economic; cultural and social
KDKA, Pittsburg, PA – 1st. radio broadcast on 11\/2\/1920
American homogenization
A New Era
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III. Modernism and a New Urban Culture
\u201cThe Roaring Twenties\u201d
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The New Woman; flappers; birth control; \u201cproto-feminists\u201d
The New Negro; NAACP; Marcus Garvey
The Harlem Renaissance
Mass entertainment; Jazz; motion pictures; celebrity
\u201cThe Lost Generation\u201d; expatriates; The Sun Also Rises (1926)
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IV. Fundamentalism and \u201cThe Rural Counterattack\u201d
Traditional Americans
The Red Scare – 1919-1921
Immigration Restriction; Johnson Reed Act of 1924 \/ National Origins Act
Prohibition; 18th. Amendment; flaunted (modernism and fundamentalism; repeal
Ku Klux Klan; Old and New; broad appeal to 1925; decline to fringe
The Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925; Dayton TN; Creationism vs. Darwinism; radio
Significance
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V. National Politics in the 1920\u2019s
Republicans in Power
Harding, Coolidge and Hoover
Republican policies; \u201cNormalcy\u201d (Normality) – raised tariffs; cut taxes; cut spending
Cooperation with business
Prosperity and surplus
A New Politics
The Election of 1928 – urban and rural (small town)
Alfred E. Smith vs. Herbert Hoover
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VI. \u201cThe Twenties\u201d end with the Great Depression; foundations of modern America<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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