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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
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Analyzing works of major American artists and writers, including F
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
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Artists of 1920s They challenged the traditional ideas.
John Martin influenced by Paul Cezanne, French Impressionist Charles Scheeler uses Cubism to photograph urban and rural landscapes Edward Hopper uses Realism to convey isolation and disenchantment. Carl Sandberg: Poet who glorifies the Midwest
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Artists of the 1920s continued
Gertrude Stein could make or break an artists based on her comments T. S. Eliot wrote about the negative effects of modernism: “The Hallow Men” Sinclair Lewis wrote about the absurdities of the traditional life in small towns Moved to Greenwich Village to escape traditional lifestyles, freedom from conformity and old ideas
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F. Scott Fitsgerald Writer of novels and short stories Great Gatsby
This Side of Paradise
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Ernest Hemingway Writer The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Langston Hughes Poet Harlem Renaissance
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H L Mencken “Sage of Baltimore” The American Language
Writer for newspapers and magazines Known for his influence on the Scopes “Monkey” Trial
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