Rise of the 1920s Questions and Answers 
Crystal Pan
AP US History
Demeck 7
February 25, 2015
Chapter 22 Essential Questions
The 1920s were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and traditional values and nostalgia on the other. What led to the tension between old and new AND in what ways was the tension manifested?
Tension rose between groups with new and old values primarily due to new technological, social, and political developments such as: development of assembly line and higher wages gave workers more leisure time and funding for luxuries previously unattainable for working classmen; increase of immigrants and African-Americans in the US urban and rural areas led to a scare and an increase in nativism in the nation which increased hate crimes such as rise in popularity of the KKK who worked to terrorize African Americans and implemented new anti-Immigration acts such as Chinese Exclusion and Gentlemen’s Agreement both discriminating against immigrants; and introduction of communism internationally had people very scared and thus the Red Scare erupted in the US, to the point where A. Mitchell Palmer worked to rid the US of communist groups, leading to conviction of over 6000 potential communist influences.
Historians have argued that Progressive reform lost momentum in the 1920s. Evaluate the statement.
Progressive reforms showed to die down in the 20s following World War I; this is because many issues such as labor and suffrage came to become less and less of a problem. Labor unions were more muted as they were sufficed with their conditions: better working times and wages allowed the working class to rise to middle class and afford certain luxuries they couldn’t previously. Suffragists were given the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote; not only that but in many other parts of the US women had already been given progressively higher authority such as right to run for office.
How did advertising, entertainment, and mass production help shape
AP US History
Demeck 7
February 25, 2015
Chapter 22 Essential Questions
The 1920s were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and traditional values and nostalgia on the other. What led to the tension between old and new AND in what ways was the tension manifested?
Tension rose between groups with new and old values primarily due to new technological, social, and political developments such as: development of assembly line and higher wages gave workers more leisure time and funding for luxuries previously unattainable for working classmen; increase of immigrants and African-Americans in the US urban and rural areas led to a scare and an increase in nativism in the nation which increased hate crimes such as rise in popularity of the KKK who worked to terrorize African Americans and implemented new anti-Immigration acts such as Chinese Exclusion and Gentlemen’s Agreement both discriminating against immigrants; and introduction of communism internationally had people very scared and thus the Red Scare erupted in the US, to the point where A. Mitchell Palmer worked to rid the US of communist groups, leading to conviction of over 6000 potential communist influences.
Historians have argued that Progressive reform lost momentum in the 1920s. Evaluate the statement.
Progressive reforms showed to die down in the 20s following World War I; this is because many issues such as labor and suffrage came to become less and less of a problem. Labor unions were more muted as they were sufficed with their conditions: better working times and wages allowed the working class to rise to middle class and afford certain luxuries they couldn’t previously. Suffragists were given the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote; not only that but in many other parts of the US women had already been given progressively higher authority such as right to run for office.
How did advertising, entertainment, and mass production help shape