Changing America
This invention gave young Americans more freedom to travel, date, and visit entertainment venues without parental supervision.
What is the automobile?
This silent-film actor became a romantic icon through movies, publicity, and fan magazines.
Who was Rudolph Valentino?
This product's advertisements connected bad breath with romantic embarrassment and rejection.
What is Listerine?
This New York neighborhood became a major center of Black literary, musical, and artistic expression during the 1920s.
What is Harlem?
This 1925 Tennessee trial became a national controversy over evolution, religion, and education.
What is the Scopes Trial?
These fashionable young women became symbols of changing gender expectations during the 1920s.
Who were the flappers?
These elaborate movie theaters used chandeliers, ornate lobbies, and expensive decorations to give audiences an experience associated with wealth.
What are movie palaces?
Before television became popular, this form of entertainment allowed American families to listen to music, news, and sporting events together at home
What is radio?
This baseball star became a national celebrity because of his powerful hitting and widespread media attention.
Who was Babe Ruth?
This evangelist used radio and other modern communication methods to spread religious teachings.
Who was Aimee Semple McPherson?
This car manufacturer used the Model T and assembly-line methods to help make automobiles more affordable.
Who was Henry Ford?
This famous silent-film comedian created the iconic character known as "The Tramp," recognizable by his bowler hat, cane, oversized shoes, and small mustache.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
In the 1920s, this term became widely recognized through Listerine advertising campaigns that warned consumers about bad breath.
What is Halitosis?
This famous Harlem nightclub featured performances by Black musicians but was known for excluding Black customers during much of its history.
What is the Cotton Club?
This religious movement emphasized traditional interpretations of Christianity and became associated with resistance to certain aspects of modern American culture during the 1920s.
What is Fundamentalism?
A 1920s automobile advertisement promises its owner independence, prestige, and excitement. Besides transportation, the company is selling this.
What is a lifestyle or social identity?
This technological development made recorded dialogue an increasingly important part of filmmaking in the late 1920s.
What is synchronized sound (or talking pictures)?
This type of popular 1920s publication combined photographs, celebrity gossip, fashion trends, and advertisements to influence how Americans viewed entertainment and modern lifestyles of celebrities.
What is a fan magazine?
This Harlem Renaissance poet defended Black artistic expression and criticized pressures to conform to white expectations.
Who was Langston Hughes?
This term describes the struggle between Americans who embraced new ideas about science, entertainment, and social behavior and those who wanted to preserve established values.
What are traditionalism and modernism?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote nationwide.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This term describes newspapers that emphasize dramatic headlines, sensational crime stories, and emotional photographs.
What are tabloids?
Newspapers, magazines, and radio helped businesses promote products across the country. Together, these are examples of this.
What is mass media?
Although Black performers made the Cotton Club famous, its discriminatory admission policies demonstrated this continuing social inequality.
What is racial segregation?
Aimee Semple McPherson was a famous 1920s evangelist who belonged to this branch of Christianity, which emphasizes the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, and divine healing.
What is Pentecostalism?