The American Vision: Modern Times © 2010 Indiana Edition

Unit 4: Boom and Bust

Historical Thinking Activities

Creationism versus Evolution:
Clash of Cultures: The Scopes Trial
NPR: Scopes Trial 75^th Anniversary
PBS: Monkey Trial

Immigration
Clash of Cultures: Immigration Restriction and the Ku Klux Klan

Isolationism and Foreign Policy in the Interwar Years
The Washington Naval Conference
The Kellogg-Briand Pact

The New Consumer Economy:
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921–1929

The "New Woman"
Clash of Cultures: The New Woman
The New Woman of the 1920s: Debating Bobbed Hair

Prohibition
Clash of Cultures: Prohibition
The Volstead Act and Related Prohibition Documents

Recommended Movies and Documentaries:
Inherit the Wind
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns (PBS)
Monkey Trial (PBS)

Recommended Books:
Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties
Linda Jacobs Altman, The Decade that Roared: America During Prohibition
Edward Caudill, Edward Larson, and Jesse Mayshark, The Scopes Trial: A Photographic History
Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion