UP:SS10.US2.5

Students know:

The causes, effects, and impact of social and political events in the United States from World War I through the 1920, including Prohibition, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the *Scopes Trial, limits on immigration, Ku Klux Klan activities, the Red Scare, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, and the Jazz Age.
The impact of influential individuals on social, political, and economic realities in the United States from World War I through the 1920, including Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W. C. Handy, and Zelda Fitzgerald.
The impact of media on social and political realities in the United States from World War I through the 1920.
The impact of major works of American artists and writers from World War I through the 1920, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes and H.L. Mencken.
The importance of technological innovations through the 1920s and the impact these had on social, economic, political, and individual realities in the United States.

Students are able to:

Explain social, economic, political, and cultural changes in the United States during specific historical periods and related to specific historical events.
Describe the influence of specific individuals and groups on the United States during specific historical periods into modern times.
Analyze the impact of technical innovations and changing media on American social and political realities.
Determine central ideas of primary and secondary sources.
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

Students understand that:

There were significant impacts of the social changes and the influence of prominent figures in the United States from WWI through the 1920s.