The Roaring 20's Project

The New Era of the Twenties

1920-1929

Topics

• 1. Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

  2. Red Scare

  3. The Great Migration

  4. Marcus Garvey's "back-to-Africa Movement"

  5. Impact of the NAACP

  6. Prohibition (Volstead Act)

  7. Women's Suffrage (19th Amendment)

  8. Presidential impact of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover

  9. US Foreign Policy during the 1920's

  10. Impact of the American Civil Liberties Union--ACLU

  11. A Booming Economy

  12. Impact of the Automobile

  13. Increasing Consumerism

  14. Growth and Effects of Sports and Music

  15. Growth and Effect of Sports and Music

  16. Impact of the Harleem Renaissance

  17. Writer's Attack on Materialism

  18. John Scopes Trial

  19. Failure of Prohibition and Growth of Organizing Crime

  20. Palmer Raids

  21. Impact of the Ku Klux Klan

  22. National Origins Act

  23. Fashion, Fads, and Ideals of Beauty in the 1920's

  24. Growth of the Advertising Industry

  25. Women in the Work Force

  26. Impact of Organized Crime in Society