The Great GatsbyRESEARCH PAPER TOPICS

Role of the Social Classes in the 1920s

Upper class Old money New money Lower class The roaring 20s Post-war culture of the 1920s The “Lost Generation” Bootleggers, gangsters, flappers,

flagpole sitters, marathon dancers

Prohibition

Bootlegging 18th Amendment Volstead Act Speak Easy’s Anti-saloon league Gangsterism Distilling operations Johnny Torrio Al Capone Eliot Ness The Untouchables Twenty-first amendment Women’s Christian Temperance Movement

Organized Crime and Its Influence The American Mafia Al Capone Bonnie and Clyde John Dillinger Bootlegging St. Valentines Day Massacre Prohibition Eighteenth amendment Speakeasies Chicago Outfit Castellammarese War  New York and Chicago

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Who was he? What else did he write? Important biographical information about F. Scott The Great Gatsby Zelda Fitzgerald

Sacco and Vanzetti

The court case of Sacco and Vanzetti

Sports of the 1920’s, especially the 1919 World Series

The Golden Age of Sports A decade full of extraordinary athletes Yankee Stadium Jack Dempsey Helen Wills ‘Red’ Grange Joe Lewis Babe Ruth Harlem Globe Trotters The Harlem Rens Fashion and Sportswear for Men and Women in the 1920s

The Jazz Age

Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith The Jazz culture The Roaring 20’s The “New Woman” The Charleston, the cake walk, the black bottom,

the flea hop Art Deco

Women in the 1920’s

Flappers vs. the Gibson Girl Changing roles for women Women’s rights Sophisticated Ladies The “New Woman” New Found Social Freedoms The Nineteenth Amendment Suffragists National American Women Suffrage Association League of Women Voters Carrie Chapman Catt New Fashions Hairstyles The Rockettes

New York and Long Island in the 1920’s

The playground of the wealthy The culture in New York City and Long Island The Roaring 20s

Money and the American Dream

The history of the American Dream The influence of money in the 1920s New Money Old Money The demise of the “American Dream” in the 1920s The Great Depression The culture of the “wealthy American”

Technology and Daily Life in the 1920s

Decade of new inventions Radio, silent films, automobiles, etc. Frozen food- Clarence Birdseye Insulin- Leonard Thompson Scientific advances Changes in daily life (freezers, cars,

the Band-aid)

Automobiles

Henry Ford Assembly Line Federal Highway act of 1921 The Model-T The “Big Three” Mass production

Charles Lindbergh and Aviation

Inventor, pilot, writer First solo transatlantic flight Distinguished Flying Cross medal America First Organization

Art and literature in the 1920’s

Jazz Age, Jazz music Surrealism and Art Deco Music, Art, Literature Pop culture Harlem Renaissance Georgia O’Keeffe F. Scott Fitzgerald Aaron Copland George Gershwin John Steinbeck

Famous people of the 1920’s

F. Scott Fitzgerald Charles Lindbergh Coco Chanel Al Capone Babe Ruth Albert Einstein Bessie Smith Henry Ford Woodrow Wilson Rudolph Valentino Charlie Chaplin

Women’s rights

Nineteenth Amendment Woman Suffrage movement Elizabeth Cady Stanton NWP- National Women’s Project NWSA- National Women’s Suffrage Association Ruth Hanna McCormick

The KKK

The Ku Klux Klan William Simmons Birth of a Nation Fundamentalism White supremacy The “decade” “Invisible Empire”

The Harlem Renaissance

Alain Locke A literary, artistic, and intellectual movement Jean Toomer Langston Hughes Rudolf Fisher James Weldon Johnson Culture, social, artistic explosion The rebirth of the African American culture The Great Migration Writers, actors, musicians