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CHAPTER 22 – The New Era

1. THE NEW ECONOMY

a. Technology and Economic Growth

b. Economic Organizations

c. Labor in the New Era

d. Women and Minorities in the Workforce

e. The “American Plan”

f. Agricultural Technology and the Plight of the Farmer

2. THE NEW CULTURE

a. Consumerism

b. Advertising

c. The Movies and Broadcasting

d. Modernist Religion

e. Professional Women

f. Changing Ideas of Motherhood

g. The “Flapper”: Image and Reality

h. Pressing for Women’s Rights

i. Education and Youth

j. The Disenchanted

k. The Harlem Renaissance

3. A CONFLICT OF CULTURES

a. Prohibition

b. Nativism and the Klan

c. Religious Fundamentalism

d. The Democrats’ Ordeal

4. REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT

a. Harding and Coolidge

b. Government and Business

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• Great Depression
• urban vs. rural
• native born vs. new immigrants
• white vs. black
• xenophobia
• Great Migration
• unilateral foreign policy
• management, labor
• fundamentalist Christianity vs. scientific modernism
• idealism vs. disillusionment
• freedom of speech
• neutrality
• isolation
• laissez-faire capitalism
• tradition vs. innovation
• Harlem Renaissance
• Red Scare
• League of Nations

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• A. Philip Randolph
• Alain Locke
• Al Smith
• American Plan
• H.L. Mencken
• Harlem Renaissance
• Herbert Hoover
• Issei
• Ku Klus Klan
• Langston Hughes
• radio
• motion pictures
• automobile
• Lost Generation
• Margaret Sanger
• National Origins Act of 1924
• Nisei
• parity
• Scopes "Monkey Trial"
• Sinclair Lewis
• Teapot Dome
• The Jazz Singer
• welfare capitalism

Inherit the Wind

The Great Gatsby

The Untouchables

Ragtime

Thoroughly Modern Millie

The Spirit of St. Louis

The Jazz Singer