1 | P a g e 2020 Academic Super Bowl Social Studies Reading Guide Prologue & Chapter 1 Impact of WWI Scott Fitzgerald o Versailles Treaty Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald o League of Nations Henry Ford o American values Ernest Hemingway Labor unions Herbert Hoover o American Federation of Labor (AFofL) Henry Cabot Lodge o Craft unions & skilled workers Henry Mencken o International Workers of the World (IWW) Franklin Roosevelt Political change Edith Wilson o Muckrakers Woodrow Wilson o Progressives & progressive intellectuals o Progressivism Social change o Bohemians o Greenwich Village o The Moderns o Romantic rebels o Victorian morality 2 | P a g e Chapter 2 African-Americans Louis Armstrong o The Great Migration Bix Beiderbecke o Lynchings Calvin Coolidge o National Association for the Advancement of Eugene Debs Colored People (NAACP) W. E. B. DuBois o Race riots Leo Frank o World War One Samuel Gompers Post-war America Warren Harding o The economy “Big Bill” Hayward o The election of 1920 & “Normalcy” J. Edgar Hoover o Immigrants & restrictionists o Jazz John L. Lewis o The “Roaring Twenties” Jelly Roll Martin Prohibition Mitchell Palmer o The 18th Amendment Nicola Sacco o The Volstead Act Bartolomeo Vanzetti Terrorism & political violence Booker T. Washington o Anarchists & Bolsheviks o Espionage & Sedition Act of 1918 o “The Outrage” of 1920 o The Red Scare Women o The emancipated woman o The “New Woman” o The 19th Amendment Workers & unions o American Federation of Labor (AFofL) o International Workers of the World (IWW) o Socialism o Socialist & communist political parties o Strikes & labor unrest of 1919 o The United Mine Workers (UMW) 3 | P a g e Chapter 3 1920 census (demographic changes) Nan Britton Literature James Cox o Main Street by Sinclair Lewis Harry Daugherty o The Other Side of Main Street by William Allen Florence Harding White Warren Harding o Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson Will Hays* 1920 census (demographic changes Carrie Phillips 1920 presidential election Charles Ponzi o Democrats’ national convention Franklin Roosevelt o Republicans’ national convention o General election Regional conflict (including rural vs. urban) *Hoosier politician Chapter 4 African-Americans Calvin Coolidge o Harding’s civil rights views Nan Britton o Tulsa race riot Harry Daugherty The Harding Administration Charles Dawe o Cabinet Eugene Debs o The “Ohio Gang” Albert Fall o Domestic policies Charles Forbes o Economic policies Flossie Harding o Foreign policies Warren Harding o Military policies o Bureau of the Budget Will Hays o Opinions about Harding Herbert Hoover Harding’s personal life Charles Evans Hughes Immigration & the Emergency Immigration Act of Jack Johnson 1921 Howard Mannington Prohibition Andrew Mellon o The Volstead Act Henry Mencken o Speakeasies & bootleggers Franklin Roosevelt o Enforcement Jess Smith Henry Wallace 4 | P a g e Chapter 5 Harding’s health & death Nan Britton Harding scandals Harry Daugherty o Alien Property Bureau Edward Doheny o Teapot Dome Albert Fall o Veterans Bureau Charles Forbes 1922 Election Marcus Garvey 1922 Labor unrest & strikes Warren Harding Rosewood race riot J. Edgar Hoover Universal Negro Improvement Association Harry Sinclair Jess Smith Chapter 6 The Coolidge Administration Calvin Coolidge o Harding scandals Grace Coolidge o Domestic policies o Economic policies o Foreign policies o Military & veterans policies o Relations with Congress Coolidge’s personality & public image Social fads of the 1920’s Chapter 7 Coolidge Prosperity Edward Clarke Immigration & the National Origins Act of 1924 Calvin Coolidge Consumerism Clarence Darrow o Advertising & marketing Hiram Evans o Consumer credit Henry Ford o Electricity & technology Madison Grant o New products Albert Johnson o Public relations Fiorello La Guardia Racism & xenophobia D. C. Stephenson o African-Americans & Mexicans Elizabeth Tyler o Anti-Catholicism & anti-Semitism o Immigrants o Japanese o The Ku Klux Klan o The National Origins Act of 1923 o Restrictionists 5 | P a g e Chapter 8 Henry Ford & Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals, Calvin Coolidge Alabama John Davis Murder trial of Leopold & Loeb Charles Dawes 1924 Election Bobby Franks o Democrats’ national convention Henry Ford o Republicans’ national convention Eleanor Roosevelt o Independent Progressives Franklin Roosevelt o General election Nathan Leopold Richard Loeb Robert La Follette William McAdoo George Norris Al Smith Chapter 9 Chrysler Corporation Charlie Chaplin Ford Motor Company Walter Chrysler o Assembly line & workers William Durant o Highland Park & Rouge River factories Thomas Edison o Model T & Model A Fords Albert Einstein General Motors Dwight Eisenhower o Advertising & planned obsolescence Douglas Fairbanks o Consumer credit Henry Ford o Management system Sigmund Freud o Models Harry Hollingworth Greenfield Village Robert & Helen Lynd Impact of gas-powered vehicles Alford Sloan Middletown studies Rin-Tin-Tin Motion Pictures Rudolph Valentin0 o Audiences & distribution o Hollywood producers Selected Movies_______ o MPPC monopoly o Production & technological innovation Frank Capra’s It o Star & studio systems Happened One Night National highway system D. W. Griffith’s The o Funding Birth of a Nation o Motels & filling stations Edward Porter’s The o Roads & parkways Great Train Robert Trends in American businesses & industries Trends in automotive advertising & promotion 6 | P a g e Chapter 10 African-Americans Bruce Barton o The Harlem Renaissance Edgar Rice Burroughs o The New Negro T. S. Eliot o Impact on white audiences & writers William Faulkner Book publishing F. Scott Fitzgerald o Trends in literature Sigmund Freud o Leisure & Literacy Zane Grey o Popular literature Edgar Guest o The Book of the Month Club Ernest Hemingway Expatriates Langston Hughes Freudianism James Joyce The Lost Generation Henry Mencken Selected Books____________________________ Eugene O’Neill Gene Stratton-Porter* Civilization by Harold Stearns Gertrude Stein The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Harold Stearns The Man Nobody Knows by Bruce Barton Rise of American Civilization by Charles & Mary Beard *Hoosier writer nature Ulysses by James Joyce photographer, naturalist, & The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot film producer Chapter 11 Motion Pictures William Jennings Bryan o Anti-Semitism Charles Darwin o Censorship campaigns Clarence Darrow o Movie moguls Will Hayes* o The Production Code Cecil B. DeMille Religion Aimee Semple o Evolution McPherson o The Foursquare Gospel Henry Mencken o Modernism John Scopes o Protestant Fundamentalism Billy Sunday o Revivalism The Scopes Monkey Trial Social criticism & Henry Mencken *Hoosier politican 7 | P a g e Chapter 12 Social changes Elizabeth Arden o “Collapse of morals” Clara Bow o Consumption of alcoholic beverages Helena Rubinstein o Dancing Margaret Sanger o The Flapper vs The Gibson Girl o Marriage & family o Men’s clothing o Romantic love & divorce o Sexual revolution o Teenagers & high school o Women’s clothing Women o African-American women o Birth control & Margaret Sanger o Employment opportunities o Equal Rights Amendment o The Flapper vs The Working Girl o The 19th Amendment & Voting o Role models Chapter 13 Agriculture & farmers Al Capone Industry & commerce Thomas Edison o Average workweek & output per man-hour Hiram Wesley Evans o Commercial, industrial, & housing construction Marshall Field o Coolidge Prosperity Carl Fisher* o Demand for electricity & petroleum Samuel Insull o Geographic inequality Charles Mitchell o Holding companies J. P. Morgan o The Second Industrial Revolution Madge Oberholtzer o The stock market David or D. C. Election of 1926 Stephenson** Florida boom & bust Louise Sullivan The Ku Klux Klan Ella May Wiggin Workers o American Federation of Labor o Economic inequality *Hoosier entrepreneur o Labor unrest & violence **Hoosier Klan leader o National Textile Workers o Piedmont Uprising o Standard of living & income 8 | P a g e Chapter 14 Jazz Louis Armstrong o Chicago Al Capone o New Orleans Bix Biderbecke Organized crime Herbert Hoover o Chicago “Texas” Guinan o Gangland murders Fiorello La Guardia o New York City Salvatore Lucania o Prohibition & the Volstead Act Joe “King” Oliver o Sources of revenue Bessie Smith Big Bill Thompson Johnny Torrio Jimmy Walker Chapter 15 Commercial air services Jack Dempsey o Air Commerce Act Red ‘Galloping Ghost” o “Big Four” airlines Granger o Naval Bureau of Aeronautics Herbert Hoover o Passenger service Al Jolson o United States Post Office Charles Lindbergh Motion pictures William Mitchell o Talkies Babe Ruth o Sound track Bessie Smith o Synchronized sound dialogue Gene Tunney o Warner Brothers Walter Winchell Newspapers o Concept of celebrity Selected Movies_______ o Trends Don Juan Professional & college sports The Jazz Singer 9 | P a g e Chapter 16 Coolidge Administration’s foreign policy Calvin Coolidge o Japan Herbert Hoover o Kellogg-Briand Pact Lou Hoover o League of Nations & World Court Frank Kellogg o Nicaragua Franklin Roosevelt o Washington Naval Conference Augusto César Sandino Election of 1928 Al Smith o Anti-Catholicism Anastasio Somoza o Divisions within the Democratic Party o Republican’s campaign theme o Significance of election results Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 o African-Americans & the Morton