Consumer Culture
What is the radio?
The most famous baseball player from the New York Yankees.
Who is Babe Ruth?
This amendment put a nationwide ban on alcohol.
What is the 18th amendment?
Group of people who were believed to be out of touch of religion and traditional views and values.
Who was the Lost Generation?
Women that abandoned traditional values and roles.
What are flappers?
A system of credit that didn't require consumers to have the total amount of money for a product.
What is installment plan?
First woman to fly across the Atlantic.
Who was Amelia Earhart?
Preacher and religious leader of the temperance movement.
Who is Billy Sunday?
Trial that divided American culture on the basis of evolution versus religion.
What is the Scopes "Monkey" Trial?
Nickname for the group of people who participated in dangerous stunts like flagpole sitting or human cannonballing.
What are daredevils?
Stores that made it easier for consumers to purchase products because they were larger, sold more products and designed similarly.
What are chain stores?
First to fly across the Atlantic in his plane called the Spirit of St. Louis.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
Day when 7 people were "massacred" in broad daylight, which turned people against prohibition.
What is Valentine's Day?
The group that fights constitutional rights.
What is the Fordney McCumber Tariff?
Faster method of producing products, popularized by Henry Ford.
What is assembly line?
A popular film star who starred in the Tramp.
The untouchables were led by this individual and convicted Al Capone.
Who is Eliot Ness?
Scott Fitzgerald argued that many young adults focused on these.
What are materialistic goods?
A process where products were specifically designed to go out of style so that they could be replaced with new models.
What is planned obsolescence?
Consumers bought numerous household appliances to make life more convenient and create more of this.
What is free time?
A famous jazz musician.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
The nickname of speakeasies.
What are blind pigs?
Who are the fundamentalists?
African American cultural revival movement in New York that used art, music and literature to express themselves.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?