Postwar American Society
This term refers to a type of political and economic ideology in which there is no private ownership and wealth is redistributed to lower classes.
What is communism?
He is considered by many historians to be the worst president in history due to the scandals surrounding his term in office.
Who was Warren G. Harding?
This led to urban sprawl.
What is the automobile?
The belief in the literal interpretation of the Bible.
What is fundamentalism?
A type of music that blended blues and ragtime.
What is jazz?
These Italian anarchists were convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence.
Who were Sacco & Vanzetti?
This was the highest protective tariff at that point in history.
What was the Fordney-McCumber Tariff?
The first commercial success for airplanes after WWI.
What was airmail?
An event that championed freedom in academia to teach evolution.
What was the Scopes Monkey Trail?
He coined the term "the Jazz Age."
Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?
What was the Boston Police Strike?
A scandal involving leasing oil fields that were meant only for the US Navy.
What was the Teapot dome Scandal?
He completed the first successful transatlantic flight.
Who was Charles A. Lindbergh?
Young women who challenged traditional mores by dress and behavior.
Who were flappers?
A group of American writers living in Paris following WWI who wrote about their disillusionment.
Who was the Lost Generation?
These were "witch hunts" in which suspected communists and anarchists were arrested.
What were the Palmer Raids?
He said the "business of America is business."
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
The first "talkie" that was a financial success.
What was The Jazz Singer?
The most notorious gangster.
Who was Al "Scarface" Capone?
A literary and artistic movement among African-Americans.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
This means "rising prices."
What is inflation?
An agreement in which many nations "outlawed war."
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
The first president to address the nation by radio.
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
She distributed birth control to NYC's poor, working class women.
Who was Margaret Sanger?
He found that his "own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about."
Who was William Faulkner?