Recommended reading:  20.3; 21.1; 21.2; 21.3; 22.1; 22.2; 22.4; 23.1

People
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Henry Ford
Langston Hughes
Clara Bow
Babe Ruth
Charles Lindbergh
The Carter Family
John Scopes
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Hitler
Stalin
Mussolini

Events
The Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial
The Red Scare
Black Tuesday
The Stock Market Crash
The Great Depression

Things and Concepts
The Teapot Dome Scandal
Laissez-Faire
Prohibition
Bootleggers
Gangsters
Speakeasies
Flappers
The Lost Generation
Fundamentalism
The Harlem Renaissance
Black Nationalism
The Ku Klux Klan
Birth of a Nation
It! and the ‘It Girl’
Talkies
The Jazz Singer
Overproduction
The Stock Market
The Dust Bowl
Hoovervilles
The Bonus Army
XX Amendment
XXI Amendment
The New Deal
FDIC
CCC
PWA
WPA
TVA
AAA
FHA
Eight-hour work days
Social Security

Possible Essay Topics
Government’s approach to business and society
The role of credit, the installment plan, and buying on margin
Causes of the Great Depression
The situation for farmers in the 1920s and 1930s
The New Deal
Compare the 1920s to the Gilded Age.

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