• textbook --> 760 - 770.
• AMSCO --> pp. 470 - 474.

1. Identify the industries that most contributed to the booming economy of the 1920s.
2. Explain the significance of the term oligopoly to American corporate development during the 1920s.
3. What is "welfare capitalism?"  What is its relevance to the corporate treatment of labor during the 1920s?
4. Why did the status of labor unions on the conditions of industrial labor deteriorate during the 1920s?  What was the impact of mechanization on this deterioration?
5. What features of President Warren G. Harding's personal background lead to his political repudiation?
6. Describe the political scandals of the Harding administration.
7. Why was President Coolidge called "Silent Cal?" 
8. How did Coolidge establish the "Coolidge prosperity?"  What approach did he take toward taxes and the federal budget?
9. Identify the candidates and indicate the outcome of the presidential election of 1924.
10. List the facts that contributed to a general decline of interest in women's issues during the 1920s.

                          ASSIGNMENT 2:

• textbook --> pp. 770 - 777.
• AMSCO --> pp. 474 - 479.

1. Compare and contrast the extent of urban growth that occurred in the North, South, and West during the 1920s.
2. Identify the major factors leading to the Great Black Migration of the 1920s.
3. Who was Marcus Garvey?  What was the role of the United Negro Improvement Association?
4. What was the "Harlem Renaissance?"  Make a list of the key black writers and artists associated with this movement.
5. Briefly describe the living conditions among Hispanic immigrants in the barrios of urban areas during the 1920s.
6. What was the impact of the automobile and suburbanization on the lives of middle class Americans in the 1920s.
7. How did the methods used by advertisers promote consumerism?  Identify the key markets targeted by 1920s advertisers.
8. How did the consumer credit system work in the 1920s?  How was it different from the credit card society we have today?
9. How did newspaper chains, mass-circulation magazines, movies, and radio serve as unifying and nationalizing forces in America during the 1920s?
10. Why was the term "Jazz Age" often used to describe the 1920s?  What does the term mean?
11. What social forces combined to disenchant many intellectuals and give them the label of "The Lost Generation?"

                         ASSIGNMENT 3:

• textbook --> pp. 777 - 785.
• AMSCO --> pp. 479 - 484.

1. Explain the changes in immigration laws brought about by the Emergency Quota Act and the National Origins Act.  Which ethnic groups were targeted by these laws?  Which were favored?
2. What is the difference between a Nisei and an Issei?  Compare and contrast the impact of immigration restriction on Japanese-American and Filipinos?
3. How was the Sacco and Vanzetti trial an example of nativist trends and remnants of the Red Scare?
4. What helped resurrect the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s?  How was it different from its Reconstruction predecessor?  In addition to African Americans, at whom did the Klan target its rage?
5. What more basic conflict in society did the controversy over the "noble experiment" of prohibition come to symbolize?  What were the results of prohibition?
6. Why did many Americans begin to question prohibition during the 1920s?
7. How did Darwinism and the Scopes trial symbolize the conflict between religious modernists and fundamentalists?  How has this conflict persisted today?
8. Why did the Leopold and Loeb trial upset so many Americans?
9. What was accomplished by the Washington Naval Conference of 1921?
10. Describe the circular patter of international finance established by the Dawes Plan.  What was the results of this Plan?
11. Why was the Kellogg-Briand Pact not worth the paper it was written on?  How did it reflect the political mood of the country in the late 1920s?
12. How were the cultural tensions of the 1920s reflected in the Democratic Party?
13. What role did Herbert Hoover play before his presidency?  What concept did he champion most vigorously? 
14. Identify the candidates and issues and indicate the outcome of the 1928 presidential election.