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The Great GatsbyRESEARCH PAPER TOPICS
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Role of the Social Classes in the 1920s
Upper class Old money New money Lower class The roaring 20s Post-war culture of the 1920s The “Lost Generation” Bootleggers, gangsters, flappers,
flagpole sitters, marathon dancers
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Prohibition
Bootlegging 18th Amendment Volstead Act Speak Easy’s Anti-saloon league Gangsterism Distilling operations Johnny Torrio Al Capone Eliot Ness The Untouchables Twenty-first amendment Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
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Organized Crime and Its Influence The American Mafia Al Capone Bonnie and Clyde John Dillinger Bootlegging St. Valentines Day Massacre Prohibition Eighteenth amendment Speakeasies Chicago Outfit Castellammarese War New York and Chicago
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who was he? What else did he write? Important biographical information about F. Scott The Great Gatsby Zelda Fitzgerald
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Sacco and Vanzetti
The court case of Sacco and Vanzetti
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Sports of the 1920’s, especially the 1919 World Series
The Golden Age of Sports A decade full of extraordinary athletes Yankee Stadium Jack Dempsey Helen Wills ‘Red’ Grange Joe Lewis Babe Ruth Harlem Globe Trotters The Harlem Rens Fashion and Sportswear for Men and Women in the 1920s
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The Jazz Age
Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith The Jazz culture The Roaring 20’s The “New Woman” The Charleston, the cake walk, the black bottom,
the flea hop Art Deco
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Women in the 1920’s
Flappers vs. the Gibson Girl Changing roles for women Women’s rights Sophisticated Ladies The “New Woman” New Found Social Freedoms The Nineteenth Amendment Suffragists National American Women Suffrage Association League of Women Voters Carrie Chapman Catt New Fashions Hairstyles The Rockettes
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New York and Long Island in the 1920’s
The playground of the wealthy The culture in New York City and Long Island The Roaring 20s
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Money and the American Dream
The history of the American Dream The influence of money in the 1920s New Money Old Money The demise of the “American Dream” in the 1920s The Great Depression The culture of the “wealthy American”
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Technology and Daily Life in the 1920s
Decade of new inventions Radio, silent films, automobiles, etc. Frozen food- Clarence Birdseye Insulin- Leonard Thompson Scientific advances Changes in daily life (freezers, cars,
the Band-aid)
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Automobiles
Henry Ford Assembly Line Federal Highway act of 1921 The Model-T The “Big Three” Mass production
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Charles Lindbergh and Aviation
Inventor, pilot, writer First solo transatlantic flight Distinguished Flying Cross medal America First Organization
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Art and literature in the 1920’s
Jazz Age, Jazz music Surrealism and Art Deco Music, Art, Literature Pop culture Harlem Renaissance Georgia O’Keeffe F. Scott Fitzgerald Aaron Copland George Gershwin John Steinbeck
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Famous people of the 1920’s
F. Scott Fitzgerald Charles Lindbergh Coco Chanel Al Capone Babe Ruth Albert Einstein Bessie Smith Henry Ford Woodrow Wilson Rudolph Valentino Charlie Chaplin
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Women’s rights
Nineteenth Amendment Woman Suffrage movement Elizabeth Cady Stanton NWP- National Women’s Project NWSA- National Women’s Suffrage Association Ruth Hanna McCormick
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The KKK
The Ku Klux Klan William Simmons Birth of a Nation Fundamentalism White supremacy The “decade” “Invisible Empire”
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The Harlem Renaissance
Alain Locke A literary, artistic, and intellectual movement Jean Toomer Langston Hughes Rudolf Fisher James Weldon Johnson Culture, social, artistic explosion The rebirth of the African American culture The Great Migration Writers, actors, musicians