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Social Changes and Key Figures in 1920s United States

This evaluation analyzes the impact of social changes and the influence of key figures in the United States from World War I through the 1920s. Topics include Prohibition, the Nineteenth Amendment, the Scopes Trial, immigration limits, Ku Klux Klan activities, the Red Scare, and influential figures such as Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W.C. Handy, and Zelda Fitzgerald. The era is characterized through the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and H.L. Mencken.

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Social Changes and Key Figures in 1920s United States

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  1. Evaluate the impact of social changes and the influence of key figures in the United States from World War I through the 1920s, including Prohibition, the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the Scopes Trial, limits on immigration, Ku Klux Klan activities, the Red Scare, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, W. C. Handy, the Jazz Age, and Zelda Fitzgerald. COS Standard 5

  2. Analyzing works of major American artists and writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and H. L. Mencken, to characterize the era of the 1920s

  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald • Born in St. Paul Minnesota • Wife-Zelda Sayre(AL) • Writer of novels and short stories • Great Gatsby • This Side of Paradise

  4. Ernest Hemingway • Born-Oak Park, Illinois • Writer • The Sun Also Rises • A Farewell to Arms • The Old Man and the Sea • For Whom the Bell Tolls

  5. Hemmingway cont….. • The Sun Also Rises- group of American and British expatriates in the 1920’s journey from Paris to Pamplona, Spain to watch bullfighting • A Farewell to Arms-American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War I, and his love for a beautiful English nurse

  6. Hemmingway cont….. • For Whom the Bells Tolls- Young American fighting with a band of guerrillas in the Spanish civil war • The Old Man and the Sea- battle between an aging, experienced fisherman named Santiago, and a large marlin.

  7. Langston Hughes • Born- Joplin, Missouri • Poet • Popular poems- • The Negro Speaks of Rivers • Harlem • The Weary Blues • Let America be America Again

  8. H L Mencken • Born- Baltimore, Maryland • “Sage of Baltimore” • Writer for newspapers and magazines • Known for his satirical influence on the Scopes “Monkey” Trial

  9. Artists of 1920s • They challenged the traditional ideas. • Charles Sheeler-American Painter/ Commercial Photographer • A founder of American modernism //used style of painting known as Precisionism • Edward Hopper-American realist painter and printmaker. (Oil paintings and watercolorist) • uses Realism to convey isolation and disenchantment. • Carl Sandberg: Swedish-American poet, writer, and editor • Poet who glorifies the Midwest • Biography of Abraham Lincoln- famous work that won a Pulitzer Prize

  10. Charles Sheeler

  11. Edward Hopper

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