American Studies Senior Seminar: Weekly Assignment #4

The Jazz Age and the Modern Era (1917-1933)

Using your text, the internet or a basic American history text of your choice, review and be prepared to talk about the following topics by the time of our meeting next week

1) A. Mitchell Palmer and the "red scare"

2) The "new" Ku Klux Klan

3) Andrew Mellon

4) The Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930

5) Roger Babson's "Prayers for the Business Man"

6) Jack Dempsey

7) Sinclair Lewis's "Babbit"

8) H.L. Menken and the "boobus Americanus"

9) Al Capone

10) The Eighteenth Amendment

11) "Teapot Dome" and Albert B. Fall

12) The "Lost Generation"

13) T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"

14) Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"

15) William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury"

16) Fredrick V. Taylor and scientific management