Dichotomies
Progressive/Conservative
Trendsetters (People)
Post War Issues and Consumerism
Social Change
100
This Dichotomy features a growing city population that overtakes the country population.
What is Rural vs Urban?
100
This person is the first of the 3 Conservative Presidents.
Who is Warren G Harding?
100
Nicknamed the Iron Horse, this person was a Baseball legend who passed away from ALS.
Who is Lou Gehrig?
100
Images like this show what trend in American life?
What is an increase in Advertising?
100
These women started a trend of women being more active in social environments and changing the norms of "acceptable" behavior.
Who are Flappers?
200
This Dichotomy features a ban of Alcohol that ultimately leads to more consumption of Alcoholic beverages.
What is Wet vs Dry?
200
This conservative policy features the raising of a tax on imported goods.
What is Higher Tariffs?
200
This jazz trumpeter and vocalist is known for songs such as What a Wonderful World and La vie en rose.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
200
This economic system features the equal distribution of money and is characterized in the US by The Red Scare.
What is Communism?
200
This invention aided a wave of information being transmitted to the American public. This device could allow someone to know the current happenings of the news, sports, trends, and music.
What is the Radio?
300
Name one of these 3 events that are focused on the battle between Labor and Capital (Employee's and Managers). Workers fought for better working conditions by organizing walk outs from their jobs.
What is the Boston Police Strike?
What is the Coal Miners Strike?
What is the Steel Mill Strike?
300
This change to the 16th Amendment helped wealthy people and businesses keep money in their pocket.
What is lowering the federal income tax?
300
This actor was a star in silent films of the 1920's such as The Circus and The Kid.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
300
This is the idea that American should look after natural-born Americans first.
What is Nativism?
300
This social movement saw African American's engage in spectacular acts of culture, music, and art in spite of acts of racism continuing to be a problem.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
This event features the Dichotomy Science vs Religion. A man was found guilty of breaking Tennessee's Butler Act as he taught Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
400
Conservatives did not want to use this power as it hindered the free-market.
What is Trustbusting?
400
This writer is famous for social commentary on Prohibition in the 1920's through the novel The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
400
These events saw people unfairly treated by the United States because their were immigrants and/or suspected Communists, Anarchists, or Socialists.
What are the Palmer Raids?
What is the Conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti?
What are Immigration Quotas?
400
This is the idea that two different groups can do the same action, but get different responses from Society?
What is a Double Standard?
500
The failure of Prohibition led to a surge of organized crime, bootleggers, and speakeasies. This person was a primary leader of organized crime and the illegal sale of Alcohol.
Who is Al Capone?
500
This President is known for wanting to be the "least" President.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
500
This person is a staple American composer famous for writing the opera Porgy and Bess, as well as songs Summertime and Rhapsody in Blue.
Who is George Gershwin?
500
Increases in American Consumerism and buying on credit lead to an increase in the Standard of Living, but ultimately set the stage for this event.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
What is the Great Depression?
500
This event saw 1.5 Million African Americans move from the Rural South into the Urban North in the hopes of a better work and social acceptance.
What is the Great Migration?