Industrialization, Emergence of Modern America, and World Conflicts
Virginia SOL VUS.12
Understand key international and domestic events, interests, and philosophies of the 1920s and 1930s.
What students need to be able to do
- Analyze attacks on civil liberties, including the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan, the Chicago riot of 1919, the Tulsa Race Massacre, redlining, and racial wealth gaps.
- Analyze the connections between the Bolshevik Revolution and the First Red Scare, anarchist bombings, and the Palmer Raids.
- Analyze the effects of changes in immigration to the United States, including the Immigration Act of 1918 and the Immigration Act of 1924.
- Examine the purposes of Marcus Garvey's Back-to-Africa movement, the ACLU, the NAACP, and the Anti-Defamation League.
- Analyze the Roaring 20s, post-wartime effects on the U.S. economy, innovation, inventions, and the diffusion of American popular culture.
- Examine the changing role of women in society and the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments.
- Examine the Great Migration and its influence on the Harlem Renaissance, including literature, music, and art.