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CHAPTER 26 | THE MODERN TEMPER | OVERVIEW

CHAPTER TIMELINE
1905	Einstein’s paper on the Theory of Relativity
1910	Organization of the NAACP
1914	Margaret Sanger began The Woman Rebel
1919	Ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition)
1920	Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment (women’s suffrage)
1920–1927	Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
1922	Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit
1922	T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland
1924	Scopes trial
1924	Legislation restricted immigration
1926	Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises
1927	Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
1927	Heisenberg’s Principle of Uncertainty stated
1927	The Jazz Singer, the first major “talkie”
1929	William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
1931	Scottsboro case

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

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

Describe and account for the mood of the 1920s.

Understand the nativist reaction in the twenties and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, along with the consequences of these developments.

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.

Describe and compare the political and social position of women and blacks in the twenties.

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

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