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He wrote The Passing of the Great Race and helped to found the American Eugenics Society with H.H. Loughlin and other "like-minded" (racist) scientists
Who was Madison Grant?
This city became the center of Al Capone's power, though he was born in Brooklyn and was trained by a New York bootlegger.
What is Chicago?
In this year, D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation was released and a group of men met in Stone Mountain, Georgia to revive the KKK that was glorified in the film.
What is 1915?
By 1929, women controlled this percentage of the nation's spending power, purchasing both necessities and luxury items for the home even though they were not the main income earners.
What is 85%?
Several Supreme Court cases restricted citizenship based on arbitrary measures of this quality.
What is whiteness?
She was the "it girl" of the 1920s talkie films, replacing Mary Pickford's demure style with her sultry, flapper-style looks
Who was Clara Bow?
In this state, John Scopes was put on trial for attempting to teach Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
What is Tennessee?
This is the year that the Supreme Court upheld the citizenship of Wong Kim Ark based on birthright citizenship.
What is 1898?
The surge of immigration in the early 1920s from Southern and Eastern Europe included this number of immigrants who entered in 1924
What is 700,000?
The writers and artists living in Paris produced works that were described with this adjective.
What is Modernist?
She held "literary salons" in her Paris apartment and named ex-pat Americans in Paris "The Lost Generation"
Who was Gertrude Stein
This country was the birth place of Sigmund Freud, who was considered the father of psychoanalysis.
What is Austria?
In this year, the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act restricted immigration quotas from any nation down to 155,000 and limited Eastern and Southern European countries to 16% of those quotas.
What is 1924?
Indiana's KKK had this many members as of 1925, making it the largest private organization in the state.
What is 250,000?
These squalid versions of speakeasies sold low-quality, potentially toxic alcohol to those who could not afford membership only locations.
What are blind pigs?
His fourteen year-old body was mutilated by Leopold and Loeb, who had no motive other than proving they could commit murder.
Who was Bobby Franks?
This neighborhood in Harlem was home to jazz musician Duke Ellington, painter Aaron Douglas, NAACP founder W.E.B Du Bois, and boxer Joe Louis.
What is Sugar Hill?
This was the month and year that things heated up in Dayton, Ohio as the Scopes trial began
This percentage of Muncie's population was African American, a percentage that was higher than Chicago's, Detroit's, or New York's.
What is 5%?
This group of religious believers led the charge against teaching evolution in public schools.
What are fundamentalists?
He was the President of the University of Wisconsin, who was accused by William Jennings Bryan of cultivating a hostile environment for Christians.
Who was Edward Birge?
This town was considered a "typical" American city by Robert and Helen Lynd, who wrote about this real life place by referring to it as Middletown.
What is Muncie, Indiana
In this year, "Sister Aimee" Semple McPherson opened the opened the Angelus Temple, which became the home of her extravagant services for her "Four Square Gospel" program
What is 1923?
When psychologist Robert M. Yerkes gave IQ tests to U.S. Army recruits in 1918, he measured the mental age of White Americans as this.
What is 13?
The tension between racial and national identities experienced by African Americans in the 1920s was referred to as this by W.E.B. DuBois
What is double consciousness or two-ness?