Crowds paid over a million dollars to see him box against George Carpentier in 1921
Who is Jack Dempsey?
100
Pictured here (Picture B) Wrote a book on the illusory American ideal of a self-made man represented in the character Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
100
Gave a sense of autonomy to youth and further widen the gap between parents and their offspring
What is the automobile?
100
Name for the economic downfall in the United States in 1929 pictured here (Picture D)
What is The Great Depression?
100
As women's social status changed to letting women play more roles in society, they finally gained the right to vote because of this legislation
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
200
Better known as "the house that Ruth built"
What is Yankee Stadium?
200
Theodore Dreiser's 1925 masterpiece that explored the pitfalls of social striving
What is "An American Tragedy"?
200
At a time when anything was possible, Richard Byrd gathered a group of young men explorers and wanted to and fly over this
What is Antarctica?
200
Scandal involving Albert B. Fall which transferred money from oil reserves to the Interior Department
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
200
The center for a new racial pride accompanied by jazz music, clubs, rejection of prohibition, and flappers.
What is Harlem?
300
Seen in this picture (Picture A), is Englishwoman Gertude Ederle, who made this sport become popular in the 1920's after doing it across the English Channel
What is swimming?
300
The first "talkie" produced in 1927 as Hollywood became a cultural icon of film and famous actors
What is "The Jazz Singer"?
300
Pictured here (Picture C) Became a national phenomenon because everyone could hear the same advertisements and the same jokes through it
What is the radio?
300
The American-sponsored plan for German reparation payments that only briefly helped the international tangle of debt
What is the Dawes Plan?
300
Inspired by the new sexual liberation of women, flappers often danced to jazz with this new dance craze pictured here (Picture E)
What is the Charleston dance?
400
Following the frivolous lifestyle of the 1920's, this sport's jockeys gained popularity as bets were made
What is horse-racing?
400
Published books on the cultural change and Lost Generation and eventually blew his brains out in 1961
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
400
Proving to be an American hero, Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis from this American city to this European city
What is New York City to Paris?
400
The sky-high tariff bill that caused the depression and forced a financial crisis worldwide
What is the Hawely-Smoot Tariff?
400
Hatred of immigrants came to a head when this Nativist group gained political power in the South pictured here (Picture F)
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
500
Sports giants became better known to the public than these old U.S. heroes showing a new paradigm for role models
What are statesmen?
500
Writer of a monthly journal who jibed that Puritanism was "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy"
Who is H.L. Mencken?
500
With the technology of skyscrapers, this architect decided that buildings should grow from the site that they are built, not from just copying the Greeks and Romans
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
500
Secretary of the Treasury who relieved the federal tax burden on the wealthy instead of the middle class or poor
Who is Andrew W. Mellon?
500
After the Stock Market crash in October of 1929, people who lost everything lived in these shantytowns