The Social, Political, Economic, and Technological Changes of the Early 20th Century
Virginia SOL USII.5
Understand the social, political, economic, and technological changes of the early 20th century.
What students need to be able to do
- Explain how capitalism and free markets fostered developments in factory productivity, transportation, and communication.
- Examine how the rise of communism affected America, including the first Red Scare.
- Describe the reasons for and impact of the Great Migration.
- Describe the events and leaders that led to prohibition, the Women's Suffrage Movement, and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
- Examine the art, literature, and music of the 1920s and 1930s, including the Roaring Twenties and the Harlem Renaissance.
- Analyze the causes of the Great Depression and the impact of the Dust Bowl on American lives.
- Describe the features, effects, programs, and lasting institutions of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
- Describe racial segregation, housing discrimination via redlining, and the rise of Jim Crow laws and Black Codes.
- Analyze events and impacts of African American leaders in response to Jim Crow, including the NAACP and leaders like Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois.