Chapter 1: Contact, Conflict, and Exchange in the Atlantic World to 1590
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PASSAGES: 1877 - 1909 Economics and Technology: The Changing Ch 23: The Age of Jazz and Mass Face of Agriculture Culture, 1921 - 1927 Keeping Cool with Coolidge
Introduction The Discordant Democrats “If you ain’t lived it, it won’t come out your horn.” Charlie “Bird” Parker The 1924 Election in Perspective Roderick Nash The Nervous Generation Babe Ruth’s 60 home runs in 1927 A Blossoming in Art and Literature
The Harlem Renaissance The Aftermath of War The Sound of Jazz A More Urban Nation Satchmo An Age of Artistic Achienvement Immigration Restricted
Immigration Quotas Fundamentalism and Traditional Values
New Patterns of Immigration The Klan in Decline
The Ku Klux Klan Social and Cultural Events: Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age The Rise of Black Militance The Continuing Controversy over Sacco and Marcus Garvey and Black Nationalism Vanzetti
Dry America: The First Phase The Fundamentalist Movement
The Scopes Trial Harding as President Prohibition in Retreat The Washington Conference and Beyond Flaming Youth
The New Economy Big-Time Sports
Prosperity and Its Benefits Baseball: The National Sport The Car Culture New Roles for Women Henry Ford Gives Way to General Motors Women in Politics Electrical America The Flapper and the New Women Movies in the Silent Era Women on the Job Advertising America The Plight of the Career Woman Those Left Behind
Labor in Retreat Coolidge in the White Hose
The Harding Scandals Coolidge’s Foreign Policy Diplomacy and Finance in the 1920s
1927: The Year of the Decade Lucky Lindy, Babe
A Heyday for Sports and a Big Change for Films
Ford Introduces the Model A
The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
“I Do Not Choose to Run”
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Suggested Readings:
Chapter Essay Questions: 1. Explain the new economy of this era.