INTRODUCTION

Before World War I, education is focused on the continual development of industry. The United States is the largest manufacturing nation in the world at the turn of the century. School administrations model their management after the efficiency of plants. Students are seen as products, so art often fails the test of cost-efficiency (Wygant, 23). As the war draws to an end, the U.S. is the dominant power in the world and the 1920s are mostly prosperous until the stock market crash of 1929. The ragtime rejections of Victorian codes of behavior peak in the ‘roaring twenties,’ and jazz gains international recognition. The nation turns from patriotism and production towards building a better society.

 

Timeline of Important Events:

1903 - Wright Brothers First Flight

1904 - Panama Canal Zone acquired

1909 - NCAAP founded by W.E.B. Dubois

1912 - Titanic Sinks

1913 - Federal Reserve Act

1913 - Woman suffrage parade in Washington

1917 - US enters WWI

1920 - First radio broadcast in Pittsburgh, PA

1924 - Indian Reorganization Act

1929 - Immigration Act

1929 - Great Depression begins