---
title: "SSUSH16: Post-WWI National Identity (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SSUSH16
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SSUSH16
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - high-school
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# SSUSH16: Post-WWI National Identity

Investigate how political, economic, and cultural developments after WW I led to a shared national identity.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SSUSH16.a**: Explain how fears of rising communism and socialism in the United States led to the Red Scare and immigrant restriction.
- **SSUSH16.b**: Describe the effects of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments.
- **SSUSH16.c**: Examine how mass production and advertising led to increasing consumerism, including Henry Ford and the automobile.
- **SSUSH16.d**: Describe the impact of radio and movies as a unifying force in the national culture.
- **SSUSH16.e**: Describe the emergence of modern forms of cultural expression including the origins of jazz and the Harlem Renaissance.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- US History (EOC). Establishment as a World Power. Establishment as a World Power (about 24% of the test; 11 points; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard)

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.