Chapter+31+Reading+Objectives

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Explain and analyze America's turn toward social conservatism and normalcy following World War I. 2. Describe the cultural conflicts of the 1920s over such issues as immigration, cultural pluralism, and prohibition; and describe the rise of organized crime during the decade. 3. Describe the rise of Protestant Fundamentalism and its apparent defeat in the landmark Scopes Trial. 4. Discuss the rise of the mass-consumption economy, led by the automobile industry. 5. Describe the cultural revolution brought about by radio, films, and changing sexual standards, and the resulting anxiety it produced. 6. Explain how new ideas and values were reflected and promoted in the innovative American literature and music of the 1920s, including the African American Harlem Renaissance. 7. Explain how the era's cultural changes affected women and African Americans.

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