Unit 6- Reading Guide 2 Name_________________________

Vocab: Define each of the following termsProhibitionSpeakeasiesBootleggersFundamentalismClarence DarrowScopes TrialFlapperDouble StandardLouis ArmstrongDuke EllingtonBessie SmithGeorge GershwinSinclair Lewis

F. Scott FitzgeraldEdna St. Vincent MillayErnest HemingwayThe Lost GenerationGeorgia O’KeeffeJames Weldon JohnsonMarcus GarveyUniversal Negro Improvement Assoc.Harlem RenaissanceClaude McKayLangston HughesZora Neale HurstonPaul Robeson

Guided Reading Questions: Provide comprehensive answers, in complete sentences, to each of the following questions.

1. What did the Volstead Act do? What obstacles stand in the way of the enforcement of the 18th Amendment?

2. How did people get around the 18th Amendment, both illegally and legally?

3. Explain Al Capone’s affect on Chicago. Explain how Americans felt about prohibition by the mid 1920s. When did prohibition get its “last call” and by which Amendment?

4. One of the most contentious clashes between the old and the new in the 20s was the clash between religion and science. Who were some famous fundamentalists and what theory did fundamentalists belt with their Bibles?

5. Who were the lawyers for the defense and prosecution in the Scopes “Monkey” Trial? If the trial wasn’t really about Scopes’ guilt, what was it really about?

6. Describe what a flapper would look like. How did women become more assertive in public as well as in the marriage home?

7. Provide examples of double standards in the 1920s.

8. What new work opportunities opened up for women in the 1920s? How did the double standard affect women in the workforce?

9. Explain the affects of modern life on the following areas: birth rates, housework, public service, marriage, child rearing, and teenagers.

10. What new fads of the 1920s were partly the outcome of disillusion with Wilsonian idealism?

11. What was the music that defined the 1920s? Who coined the term? Where did it start and to where did it spread? Why was the Savoy Ballroom special?

12. The first sentence in the section “Writers Help Define the Decade…” provides a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Great Gatsby.” What behaviors does Fitzgerald describe in this quote? What characterized 1920s American authors?

13. Why was the “Lost Generation” of authors notable? Who did this group include?

14. What were the subjects of artists like Georgia O’Keefe and Edward Hopper?

15. What architectural style defined the modern age of the 1920s. Do a google image search of 1920s (insert architectural style) buildings/fashion/décor.

16. On which areas did the NAACP focus its efforts during the 1920s?

17. Explain the beliefs of Marcus Garvey. How did Garvey’s activism differ from other African American social activists of the era?

18. What did African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance focus on? Be sure you note the works and subject matter of the black writers in your vocab definitions.

19. Which black musical comedy is believed by some to have launched the Harlem Renaissance? Why would we consider Paul Robeson a Renaissance man (jack of all trades)?