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.

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.  They challenged the traditional ideas.  John Martin influenced by Paul Cezanne, French Impressionist  Charles Sheeler uses Cubism to photograph urban and rural landscapes  Edward Hopper uses Realism to convey isolation and disenchantment.  Carl Sandberg: Poet who glorifies the Midwest

4.  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

5.  Writer of novels and short stories  Great Gatsby  This Side of Paradise

6.  Writer  The Sun Also Rises  A Farewell to Arms  For Whom the Bell Tolls

7.  Poet  Harlem Renaissance

8.  “Sage of Baltimore”  The American Language  Writer for newspapers and magazines  Known for his influence on the Scopes “Monkey” Trial