Popular Culture- Roaring Twenties
An influential thing to get people to buy into an idea or product.
What are ads/advertisements?
This person is famous for writing, directing, and acting in his own movies.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
The name of the mobster who is famous for becoming rich by manufacturing and selling alcohol, also known as bootlegging.
Who is Al Capone?
People who have respect for long-held cultural and religious beliefs/traditions.
What are traditionalists?
The post WWI fear of communist radicals.
What is the Red Scare?
The arrangement to buy something immediately with borrowed money and then paying off the loan over time
What is credit?
This person was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. She also is the famous aviator who mysteriously disappeared in 1937.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This amendment repealed the Eighteenth amendment, making it legal to drink alcohol again.
What is the Twenty-First amendment?
This famous trial challenge the idea that a state can ban the teaching of evolution in public schools after a biology teacher taught it on purpose to get arrested.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This treaty was signed by 62 countries to outlaw war. This pact also shares half of its name with a well-known cereal brand.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
This mass medium could reach large audiences through wavelengths and frequencies. It gave American popular culture a voice.
What is the radio?
This person is credited with inventing the assembly line. Their first car was made with bicycle tires.
Who is Henry Ford?
This term describes young women who broke tradition. They often had short hair and skimpy dresses, and they loved to dance.
What are flappers?
The idea that religious texts and beliefs should be taken literally is known as this.
What is fundamentalism?
The government policy of not taking part in economic and political alliances or relations with other countries.
What is isolationism?
A culture that views the consumption of large quantities of goods as beneficial to the economy and a source of personal happiness.
What is consumer culture?
This person is known for the two gold Olympic medals they won in 1912. They also became the first president of the organization that became the NFL.
Who is Jim Thorpe?
States tried to curtail undesirable behavior from younger generations by doing this.
What is by passing laws?
The measure of the cost of basic necessities such as food and housing is this.
What is the consumer price index?
The policy of favoring native-born Americans over those of immigrants. This influenced groups like the KKK to also target immigrants.
What is nativism?
This constitutional amendment has been proposed multiple times but has never been ratified. The intention of this amendment was to guarantee equal rights for all American regardless of gender.
What is the equal rights amendment?
This person was a nurse whose mother had 11 children. She was a champion for easily accessible contraceptives (birth control).
Who is Margaret Sanger?
During prohibition, Americans continued to drink alcohol illegally. These secret establishments replaced bars and pubs.
What are speakeasies?
This group of people generally viewed rural Americans as socially unadvanced.
What are modernists?
When representatives from Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan met in the United States to discuss naval disarmament during 1921.
What was the Washington Naval Conference?