The Prohibition Era

Standards

5.4.1

Summarize changes in daily life in the boom period of the 1920’s, including the improved standard of living; the popularity of new technology such as automobiles, airplanes, radio, and movies; the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Migration; Prohibition; and racial and ethnic conflict.

USHC 7.3

Explain the causes and effects of the social conflict and change that took place during the 1920’s, including the “Red Scare” and the Sacco and Vanzetti Case, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, immigration quotas, Prohibition, and the Scopes Trial.