Research Topics for 1920s


Topics for 1920s VoiceThread

Presidents
—Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover

Major Events
—The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, The Scopes Monkey Trial, the Stock Market Crash, Palmer Raids, Teapot Dome Scandal

Sports
—Birth of the National Football League, Negro National League, Sports figures of the 1920s , Black Sox Scandal, Major League Baseball

Popular Culture—Flappers, Fashion of the 1920s, Radio of the 1920s (Radio Control Bill), Dancing during the 1920s, Toys of the 1920s, dance marathons


Science and Technology
—Inventions of the 1920s, Advances in medicine in the 1920s, Automobiles and transportation of the 1920s, Aviation of the 1920s (Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart), Important scientists of the 1920s (Robert Goddard, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon), Edwin Hubble

Music
—The Jazz Age, Blues of the 1920s, Musicals of the 1920s, Composers of the 1920 (Gershwin), Musicians and music of the 20s (Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong)

Movies
—The birth of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin, the first talkie "The Jazz Singer," Famous actors of the 1920s (Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks)

Literature
—The Harlem Renaissance, Major writers of the 1920s (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway), Algonquin Round Table

Art and Architecture
—Art in the 1920s, Architecture of the 1920s , Chrysler Building

Other Possibilities
—The Anarchists, Prohibition, Law and order during the 1920s, Gangsters (Al Capone, John Dillinger), the Great Migration, Red Scare

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