CHAPTER 13 OBJECTIVES



CHAPTER 12 OBJECTIVES

CHAPTER OVERVIEW: AMERICANS LASH OUT AT THOSE WHO ARE DIFFERENT WHILE THEY ENJOY PROSPERITY AND NEW CONVENIENCES PRODUCED BY AMERICAN BUSINESSES.

KEY IDEAS

SECTION 1: The Russian Revolution brings a Communist government to power. Many Americans fear that a similar revolution will occur in the United States. Political radicals and labor activists meet with increasing opposition.

SECTION 2: The Republicans return to isolationism and the kind of policies that had characterized the period before the reforms of the progressive era.

SECTION 3: During the prosperous 1920’s, the automobile industry and other industries flourish. Americans’ standard of living rises to new heights.

SECTION 1 OBJECTIVES

1. To explain how urbanization created a new way of life that often clashed with the values of the traditional American rural society.

2. To describe the controversy over the role of science and religion in American education and society in the 1920’s.

SECTION 2 OBJECTIVES

1. To explain how the image of the flapper embodied the changing values and attitudes of young women in the 1920’s.

2. To identify the causes and results of the changing roles of women in the 1920’s.

SECTION 3 OBJECTIVES

1. To explain how schools and mass media influenced American culture in the 1920’s.

2. To identify the athletes, celebrities, artists, and writers who contributed to American popular culture in the 1920’s.

SECTION 4 OBJECTIVES

1. To identify the causes and results of the migration of African-Americans to northern cities in the early 1920’s.

2. To describe the outburst of African-American artistic activity that became known as the Harlem Renaissance.

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