People
Known as the "Fighting Quaker" or "Quaking Fighter"
Who is Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer?
249 alleged alien radicals were deported to this place on the Buford (the "Soviet Ark")
What is the "Worker's Paradise" of Russia ?
Amendment passed giving women the right to vote
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
Terrorist organization spawned by the postwar reactions
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The reason many Americans turned towards domestic isolation and social conservatism in the 1920's
What is the Red Scare?
Murderous mobster and booze distributor based in Chicago
Who is Al Capone?
Became the motorcar capital of America and Hnery Ford's original base of operations
What is Detroit?
Laws passed to reflect the anxiety of "solid" ciitizens
What are Criminal Syndicalism Laws?
The melancholy success that became one of Scott Fitzgerald's greatest works
What is the Great Gatsby?
The anti-union campaign for the open shop
What is the American Plan?
A founder of the new profession known as advertising and a prominent New York partner in a Madison Avenue firm
Who is Bruce Barton?
The most spectacular example of lawlessness during Prohibition
What is Chicago?
The Best Surprise from the Best Partners
What is FREE POINTS?
Young women known for their energetic freedom, embracing a lifestyle viewed by many at the time as outrageous, immoral or downright dangerous
What is a Flapper?
A state where individuals were encouraged to buy goods in increasing quantities also defined by an impulsive desire to spend money
What is consumerism?
A brilliant erratic Idahoan poet who deserted America for Europe
Who is Ezra Pound?
The largest Black community in the world that sustained a vibrant, creative culture during the 1920s
What is Harlem?
The legislation that cut the quota for foreigners from 3 percent to 2 percent
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
Association created by Marcus Garvey to promote the resettlement of American Blacks in their own African Homeland
What is the United Negro Improvemnet Association?
This spawned a tiny communist party in America
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
Believed that cosmopolitan interchange was destined to make America "not a nationality but a trans-nationality,a weaving back and forth, with the other lands, of many threads of all szes and colors"
Who is Randolph Bourne?
The place where a land boom occurred leaving behind entirely new, planned developments incorporated into towns and cities
What is Florida?
Federal act enforcing the 18th amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverage
What is the Volstead Act?
Novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity.
What is Babbitt?
Criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for teaching of evolution in public schools
What is the Scopes Trial?