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CHAPTER 26 | THE MODERN TEMPER | OVERVIEW

CHAPTER TIMELINE
1873	Comstock Law
1910	The Fundamentals
1910	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded
1913	Armory Show in New York City
1915	Ku Klux Klan revived
1916	Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race
1916	Universal Negro Improvement Association
1916	Nation’s first family planning clinic
1919	Eighteenth Amendment ratified
1919	Volstead Act
1919	League of Women Voters organized
1920–1927	Case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
1920	Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street
1920	F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise
1920	Nineteenth Amendment ratified
1921	Emergency Immigration Act
1922	T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
1922–1925	The Fugitive
July 1925	Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee
1925	F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
1927	Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
1928	Election of Oscar DePriest
1929	Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms
1930	Rejection of Judge John J. Parker
1931	Wickersham Report

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

Depict and account for the mood of the 1920s.

Describe the nativist reaction in the twenties and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, and their consequences.

Trace the emergence of fundamentalism and its effects.

Account for the experiment in Prohibition and its persistence in the face of widespread evasion of the law.

Compare the political and social position of women and blacks in the twenties.

Explain the scientific basis of the moral relativism of the decade.

Describe the literary flowering of the 1920s and the contributions of major U.S. novelists and poets of the era.