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year 12 Modern History (General) Unit 3
USA in the 1920s

Immigration | Isolationism | Jazz Movement | Ku Klux Klan and White Supremacy | Prohibition | Red Scare | Women’s Role in Society
 
Immigration
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Source: CNN
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BBC. (n.d.). Life for immigrants. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zcbtk2p/revision/1


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History Revision Success. (2021, January 31). Immigration to America in the 1920s [Video]. YouTube. ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyohAdDPdXU


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Kennedy, D. M., & Cohen, L. (2012). The American pageant. Cengage Learning.


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Khan Academy. (n.d.). Nativism and fundamentalism in the 1920s. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/1920s-america/a/transformation-and-backlash-cnx


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National Humanities Center. (2012). Native and foreign. http://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/divisions/text7/text7.htm
          

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Quinn, R. (n.d.). Key question 1: immigration. https://resource.download.wjec.co.uk/vtc/2017-18/17-18_2-26/PDF/usa-1920s-eduqas-resource-1.pdf


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Quinn, R., Evans, R. P., Waugh, S., & Wright, J. (2020). Eduqas GCSE (9-1) history the USA: A nation of contrasts 1910-1929. Hodder Education.

 
Isolationism
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Source: Getty Images
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Clare, J. D. (n.d.). How did America react to the end of World War I. https://www.johndclare.net/America2.htm


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Clare, J. D. (n.d.). How did the policies of the American government encourage isolationism? http://johndclare.net/America3.htm


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Li, C. (2019). Discussion on isolationism in the United States in the 1920s: a revival or a disaster. https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/ichess-19/125924184


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Norwich University Online. (2017). Isolationism and U.S. foreign policy after World War I. https://online.norwich.edu/academic-programs/resources/isolationism-and-us-foreign-policy-after-world-war-i


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Smith, A. (n.d.). Lesson 1: return to isolationism. https://www.aprilsmith.org/lesson-1-return-to-isolationism.html

 
Jazz Movement
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Source: Britannica
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BBC. (n.d.). Popular entertainment. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zt896yc/revision/5


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The Black history book. (2021). DK.


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Drowne, K., & Huber, P. (2004). Music. In The 1920s. Greenwood Publishing Group.


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Kane, D. (n.d.). History of the jazz age. Study.com


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Lindop, E. (2009). The jazz age. In America in the 1920s. Twenty-First Century Books.


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Quinn, R. (n.d.). Key question 6: popular entertainment. https://resource.download.wjec.co.uk/vtc/2017-18/17-18_2-26/PDF/usa-1920s-eduqas-resource-6.pdf


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Smith, P. (2000). A musical explosion. In J. F. Wukovits (Ed.), The 1920s. Greenhaven Press.


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StudySmarter. (n.d.). The jazz age. ​https://app.studysmarter.de/studyset/4144943/summary/27811377


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Tyle, C. (n.d.). Jazz history: the standards (1920s). https://www.jazzstandards.com/history/history-2.htm


 
Ku Klux Klan and White Supremacy
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Source: The Guardian
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Beckett, L., & Brenneman, J. (2018, March 6). The media and the Klu Klux Klan: a debate that began in the 1920s. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/05/ku-klux-klan-kkk-media-debate


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Campbell, I. (1998). The USA, 1917-1941. Cambridge University Press.

This book features primary source material on this issue.

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Eschner, K. (2017). Why the Ku Klux Klan flourished under prohibition. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-racism-flourished-under-prohibition-180967406/


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Gioia, J. (2021). Public relations, mass media, and hate: the history of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s. https://www.magellantv.com/articles/-public-relations-mass-media-and-hate-the-history-of-the-ku-klux-klan-in-the-1920s


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Gordon, L. (2019). When the Ku Klux Klan was a mass movement. https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/ku-klux-klan-mass-movement-organisation-secret-society-rise-american-south-1920s/


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Kennedy, D. M., & Cohen, L. (2012). The American pageant. Cengage Learning.


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Khan Academy. (n.d.). The reemergence of the KKK. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/1920s-america/a/the-reemergence-of-the-kkk


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Liberal Arts Development Studio. (2021, April 28). History of the second Ku Klux Klan [Audio podcast episode]. In 15 minute history. Liberal Arts Development Studio. https://15minutehistory.org/podcast/episode-132-history-of-the-second-ku-klux-klan/


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Pacanins, G. (2019). When the Klan descended on Washington. https://boundarystones.weta.org/2019/12/11/when-klan-descended-washington


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National Humanities Center. (2012). Ku Klux Klan. http://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/divisions/text1/text1.htm

This page features primary source material on this issue.

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Rothman, J.D. (2016, December 5). When bigotry paraded through the streets. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/second-klan/509468/


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Simmons, K. (2018). The reemergence of terror: Ku Kux Klan. https://stmuscholars.org/the-reemergence-of-terror-ku-klux-klan/


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Weeks, L. (2015). When the KKK was mainstream. https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/03/19/390711598/when-the-ku-klux-klan-was-mainstream

 
Prohibition
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Source: Britannica
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Behr, E. (2000). America ignores the law. In J. F. Wukovits (Ed.), The 1920s. Greenhaven Press.


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Campbell, I. (1998). The USA, 1917-1941. Cambridge University Press.

This book features primary source material on this issue.

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​DeMarco, N. (2001). The USA: a divided union? 1917-1980. Longman.


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Dunn, J. M. (2010). Prohibition. Lucent​.


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Fiehn, T., Mills, R., Samuelson, M., & White, C. (1998). The USA between the wars 1919-1941: a study in depth. Hodder Education.


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Freund, S. (2017). Prohibition. In The Emergence of Modern America, Third Edition. Facts On File.


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History Revision Success. (2021, January 26). What was prohibition in America [Video]. YouTube. ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcTn7wh5TfM


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Library of Congress. (n.d.). Prohibition: a case study of progressive reform. https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/progressive-era-to-new-era-1900-1929/prohibition-case-study-of-progressive-reform/

This page features primary source material.

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The Mob Museum. (n.d.). Prohibition: an interactive history. https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/​


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National Humanities Center. (2012). Wets and drys. http://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/divisions/text4/text4.htm

This page features primary source material on this issue.

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Prohibition. (n.d.). In Encyclopaedia Britannica.


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Sandbrook, D. (2012, August 25). How prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/aug/26/lawless-prohibition-gangsters-speakeasies


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Slavicek, L. C. (2017). Bootleggers, rumrunners, and gangsters. In The Prohibition Era, Updated Edition. Facts On File. 


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Smith, P. (2000). Prohibition dries up a thirsty nation. In J. F. Wukovits (Ed.), The 1920s. Greenhaven Press.


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Woog, A. (2003). Prohibition: banning alcohol. Lucent.

 
Red Scare
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Source: History Learning
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Campbell, I. (1998). The USA, 1917-1941. Cambridge University Press.

This book features primary source material on this issue.

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Fiehn, T., Mills, R., Samuelson, M., & White, C. (1998). The USA between the wars 1919-1941: a study in depth. Hodder Education.


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Independence Hall Association. (n.d.). The red scare. https://www.ushistory.org/us/47a.asp


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Kennedy, D. M., & Cohen, L. (2012). The American pageant. Cengage Learning.


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Nicols, J. (n.d.). The red scare of the 1920s. Study.com


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Reading Through History. (2015, November 5). History brief: the red scare in the 1920s [Video]. YouTube. ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdbClUYYaOU


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Rose, L. (n.d.). The red scare. https://www.studentsofhistory.com/the-red-scare


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Simkin, J. (2020). The red scare. https://spartacus-educational.com/USAredscare.htm

This page features primary source material on this issue.

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StudySmarter. (n.d.). First red scare. https://app.studysmarter.de/studyset/7570657/summary/43737776

 
Women's Role in Society
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Source: Getty Images
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Allen, F. L. (2000). Women enjoy a new morality. In J. F. Wukovits (Ed.), The 1920s. Greenhaven Press.


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  • Briffett, E. (2022). Flappers, sanitary pads and public drinking: was the 1920s a time of increased liberation for women? https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/1920s-women-flappers-bright-young-things-roaring-twenties/


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Campbell, I. (1998). The USA, 1917-1941. Cambridge University Press.


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​DeMarco, N. (2001). The USA: a divided union? 1917-1980. Longman.


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Fiehn, T., Mills, R., Samuelson, M., & White, C. (1998). The USA between the wars 1919-1941: a study in depth. Hodder Education.


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History Revision Success. (2021, January 25). How did life change for women in 1920s America? [Video]. YouTube. ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THc37UbltH8


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  • Pruitt, S. (2021). How flappers of the Roaring Twenties redefined womanhood. https://www.history.com/news/flappers-roaring-20s-women-empowerment


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Quinn, R. (n.d.). Key question 7: the role of women. https://resource.download.wjec.co.uk/vtc/2017-18/17-18_2-26/PDF/usa-1920s-eduqas-resource-7.pdf


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Shuter, J. (2013). History A: the making of the modern world: unit 2C USA 1919-41. Pearson.

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  • Zoeller, D., & Whittemore, J. (n.d.). Women in the 1920s. Study.com

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