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1920s DBQ1920s DBQ Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpreation of Documents A-H and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. In your essay, you should strive to support your assertions both by citing key pieces of evidence from the documents and by drawing on your knowledge of the period. The 1920s were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and traditional values and nostalgia on the other. What led to the ension between old and new AND in what ways was the tension manifested? DOCUMENT A Source: Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (1922) Just as he was an Elk, a Booster, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, just as the priests of the Presbyterian Church determined his every religious belief and the senators who controlled the Republican Party decided in little smoky rooms in Washington what he should think about disarmament, tariff, and Germany, so did the large national advertisers fix the surface of his life, fix what he believed to be his individuality. These standard advertised wares -- toothpastes, socks, tires, cameras, instantaneous hot-water-heaters -- were his symbols and proofs of excellence; at first the signs, then the substitutes, for joy and passion and wisdom. DOCUMENT B Source: "The Bridge" by Joseph Stella, 1922 DOCUMENT C Source: The King's Business. July, 1922 Pillars: "Church" and "Schools" Chest: "Modernism" Legs: "Darwinism" and "Denial of Bible" DOCUMENT D Source: Hiram Wesley Evans, "The Klan's Fight for Americanism," The North American Review, March 1926.
Approximate Word count = 1017
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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