AP U.S. History / Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945
7.8 1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies
Notes
Conflicts between modern and traditional values: Prohibition (Eighteenth Amendment), the Scopes Trial (1925, evolution), revival of the KKK, immigration quotas (Immigration Act of 1924), the Harlem Renaissance, and the "flapper."
Practice
The Scopes Trial was about:
Tennessee, 1925.
The Immigration Act of 1924:
National Origins Act.
The Harlem Renaissance was:
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston.
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