1. What influences caused Protestants to define their faith in new ways during the 1920s?

2. How did modernists view Darwin's theory of evolution and the Bible?

1. What did fundamentalists believe about the Bible and the origin of life?

2. What did fundamentalists blame modernists for causing?

1. How did 1920s revivalists use new technology to spread their fundamentalist message?

2. What issues did Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson attack in their radio sermons?

1. Why was John Scopes arrested and what was the significance of his trial?

2. How did the clash between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan represent broader cultural divisions?

1. What was the outcome of the Scopes trial and what remained unresolved?

1. How did Americans defy Prohibition and what role did bootleggers and speakeasies play?

2. How did organized crime expand during Prohibition and what illegal activities did gangsters pursue?

1. How did Republicans and Democrats differ on Prohibition and what factors led to its repeal?

2. What arguments did supporters make for Prohibition and what evidence weakened support for it?

1. How did the quota acts of 1921 and 1924 restrict immigration and which groups were most affected?

2. What was the significance of these laws in changing U.S. immigration policy?

1. Why did the Sacco and Vanzetti case become a symbol of nativist prejudice and injustice?

2. How did American liberals respond to the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti?

1. What methods did the Klan use to terrorize and intimidate its targets?

2. What groups did the Klan target and what political influence did it gain?

1. Why did the Klan initially gain tolerance from many Americans and what caused its decline?

1. How did the works of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Lewis, Pound, Eliot, and O'Neill express disillusionment?

2. What themes did painters like Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and Thomas Hart Benton explore?

1. How did Show Boat represent a departure in musical theater and what role did Jewish immigrants play in American musical development?

2. How did George Gershwin blend different musical styles in his compositions?

1. How did labor-saving devices change the lives of middle-class homemakers in the 1920s?

1. What types of jobs did employed women hold and how did their wages compare to men's?

1. What factors influenced young people to challenge sexual taboos in the 1920s?

2. What was the flapper look and what did it represent about generational conflict?

3. How did Margaret Sanger and birth control advocates change attitudes toward contraception?

1. How did women's suffrage lead to changes in divorce laws and what was the impact?

1. What factors led to increased high school enrollment and what was the goal for American education?

1. What themes did Harlem poets like Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen explore in their work?

2. Why was the 1920s called the Jazz Age and what was the significance of African American musicians?

1. What were Marcus Garvey's ideas about Black nationalism and economic self-sufficiency?

2. What happened to Garvey's movement and how did his ideas influence later African American leaders?

1. What able men did Harding appoint to his cabinet and what were their backgrounds?

1. What major domestic policies did Harding approve and what was their purpose?

2. Why was Harding's pardon of Eugene Debs significant and what did it reveal about his character?

1. What scandals occurred during Harding's presidency and who was involved?

1. Who were the candidates in the 1924 election and what did the Progressive Party's performance reveal?

1. What major bills did Coolidge veto and what did his actions reveal about his priorities?

1. How did Frederick Lewis Allen and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. characterize the 1920s?

1. How did revisionist historians challenge the conservative interpretation of the 1920s?

2. How did William Leuchtenburg explain the conflict between modernists and traditionalists?

1. How did historians like Alan Brinkley reinterpret the motivations of fundamentalists and nativists?

1. How did consumer culture and materialism affect social conflict and political values in the 1920s?