Please respond to all prompts, providing specific examples from the readings/viewings. Make sure to cite to your sources and elaborate! Explain your reasoning.
1. How do you define the 1920s? What characteristics are most important in defining this decade?
2. Last week, we were introduced to the Prohibition Era. In the podcast, Billie Holiday v. the United States, connections are made between that era and the modern War on Drugs. How did the end of Prohibition lead to Billie Holiday becoming a target of the federal government?
3. And finally, the push back against Eastern European immigration leads to a new wave of nativism and the rise of the Eugenics movement. Explain the Supreme Court's decision in Buck v. Bell.