Mass Culture
This mustached movie star was one of the very few actors to successfully make the transition from silent film to "talkies."
Who was Charlie Chaplin?
This president was assassinated in 1901, causing his vice president to become president.
Who was William McKinley?
Clarence Darrow acted as defense counsel and William Jennings Bryan served as the prosecutor in this 1925 trial that captured the attention of the nation.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
What is the 18th Amendment?
This silent business-man-turned-vice-president became president when his predecessor died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1923.
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
Henry Ford bought this newspaper and distributed it nationwide. He regularly included antisemitic content.
What was The Dearborn Independent?
This law passed in the late Nineteenth Century was put to good use in the 20th Century by Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft to try and break up monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Confusing communism, socialism, and anarchism to all be the same thing, Americans began to persecute people that they suspected to be Communist during this prolonged reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution.
What is the Red Scare?
Illegally made alcohol, typically at 100% alcohol by volume, strong enough to kill someone.
What is moonshine?
While this was not the first automobile, it was the first to be sold at a price that factory workers who made it could afford to pay.
What was the Model T?
Salvador Dali, Mark Rothko, Georgia O'Keefe, Jackson Pollack, and Edward Hopper are all painters that can be considered part of this.
What is modern art?
This "Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny" was a filibusterer who temporarily established himself as the supposed president of the country of Nicaragua in 1856.
Who was William Walker?
While many Americans feared and were hostile to immigrants, many also believed that America was this: a place where people of all cultures could merge together to create a new America.
What is "the melting pot"?
The illegal smuggling of alcohol.
What is bootlegging?
This circular arrangement involved the United States loaning money to Germany so they could pay war reparations to France and England, who could then pay back money owed to the United States.
What was the Dawes Plan?
This musician was part of the Great Migration, taking his talents from New Orleans to Chicago and helping to create different forms of jazz during his decades-long career.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
The Bureau of Biological Survey, which managed wildlife by killing animals it considered not to be useful, was ran by this good friend of Theodore Roosevelt.
Who is C. Hart Merriam?
The arrest, trial, and execution of these two Italian immigrant anarchists captivated the nation.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
The Italian mob, which thrived during the Prohibition Era.
What is the mafia?
Stocks bought with borrowed money, this practice greatly contributed to the Great Depression.
What are margins?
Charles Lindbergh flew this across the Atlantic Ocean, landing in Paris, France.
What is The Spirit of St. Louis?
This influential friend of Theodore Roosevelt's helped get him his position as assistant secretary of the navy. Together, they dramatically increased the navy's size and strength.
Who was Alfred Thayer Mahan?
Some people were scandalized that women in the 1920s began dressing in shorter skirts with sporty headwear, earning them this nickname.
What were flappers?
Secret bars that sold illegally sold liquor during the Prohibition Era.
What are speakeasies?
Traumatized by World War One after serving as an ambulance driver, this author wrote books that in plain and simple language exposed war as cruel, absurd, and stupid.
Who was Ernest Hemingway?