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Question • What is “Pop Culture?”

Answer • Pop Culture is when people look to celebrities, movie stars, musicians, and athletes for how to act, what to believe, and what is fashionable. • This first developed in the 1920s with the advent of radio, cinema, and professional sports.

Question • What is consumerism?

Answer • Consumerism is idea that we are what we buy. In the 1920s people began looking to popular advertisements to help them build an idea of the “American Dream.” People moved beyond buying what they needed to what they wanted for the first time. • They saw cars, nice clothes, telephones, etc. These became a part of how we defined “success” in our culture.

Question • What is a flapper?

Answer • Flapper was a counter-culture of women that developed in the 1920s. Flappers were defined by their shorter hair and their flashy dress. • They reflected changing attitudes toward the role of women. Flappers had the reputation of dating, drinking, and dancing.

Question • What is Prohibition?

Answer • During the 1920s the sale, distribution, and consumption of alcohol was banned, or prohibited.

Question • What is a speakeasy?

Answer • It is a hidden nightclub that sold alcohol during the 1920s.

Question • What is a bootlegger?

Answer • A person that smuggled alcohol during Prohibition.

Question • What is a moonshiner?

Answer • Someone who illegally produced alcohol during Prohibition.

Question • What is a gangster?

Answer • Someone who worked in organized crime, often supplying alcohol to speakeasies. Gangsters made millions during Prohibition and contributed to a large increase in crime within the cities. • The most famous gangster is Al Capone.

Question • What is the Red Scare?

Answer • A fear that developed in the USA after WWI that Communism would spread through the USA and lead to a revolution here.

Question • What is Communism?

Answer • A political and economic philosophy which believes that everyone should be treated equally, wealth should be distributed evenly through society, and that there should be no private property. The government is responsible to create this change. • Communism developed in Russia and became popular in Europe and the USA during the 1920s.

Question • What is Capitalism?

Answer • Capitalism is an economic philosophy in which private property and private rights are protected from the government and society. • The main idea is that the individual should be awarded according to ability and effort. • This was the main system in the USA during the 1920s

Question • What were the Palmer Raids?

Answer • A series of raids carried out by the federal government on suspected anarchists after the office of the U.S. Attorney General’s office was bombed. • Thousands of houses were raided without warrants. • Hundreds of immigrants were deported without trial. • No widespread Communist plot was found.

Question • Sacco & Vanzetti Trial

Answer • Two Italian anarchists were put on trial for bank robbery and murder. Their case became a symbol for rising nativism in the USA, because of how it was handled by the U.S. courts.

Question • Emergency Quota System

Answer • The first major immigration restriction passed by the USA. • It severely restricted immigration from Europe, especially Southern and Eastern Europe. • It banned immigration from Asia.

Question • What was the Scopes Trial?

Answer • Also known as the “Monkey Trial,” the Scope Trial began when Mr. Scopes, a science teacher tried to teach the theory of evolution in his high school science class. • The trial was nationally publicized as a battle between teaching a Bible-based seven day creation and evolution in public schools. • The court found Scopes guilty of breaking a state law, but also said it was okay to teach the theory of evolution.

Question • What is Nativism?

Answer • Hatred against foreigners, foreign customs, traditions, and beliefs.

Question • What was the Great Migration?

Answer • The movement of millions of African Americans from Southern cotton fields to Northern cities and factory jobs.

Question • Who was Babe Ruth?

Answer • He was the most famous professional baseball player of the 1920s, setting the record for the most homeruns in one season.

Question • Who was Charles Lindbergh?

Answer • He was the first person to fly, nonstop across the Atlantic ocean in an airplane. He was, perhaps, the most famous person of the decade.

Question • What effect did Henry Ford’s Model T have the USA?

Answer • The Model T was the first mass-produced automobile. It was so affordable, it became most Americans’ first family car. • The car revolutionized the way people used their time. It was quicker, cheaper, and easier to travel. This encouraged people to move outside of the city, travel, take vacations, etc.

Question • What is an example of a technological change that occurred in the 1920s?

Answer • Family… • Cars, telephones, radios • Movies/Movie Theaters • Modern appliances • Vacuums, toasters, refrigerators, gas ovens, electricity, lamps • Commercial Airplanes

Question • What is an example of a social or cultural change that occurred during the 1920s?

Answer • Jazz music • Prohibition • Flappers • Nativism • Red Scare • Consumerism • Pop Culture • Dating • Teaching evolution in school

Question • What is an example of political change that occurred in the 1920s?

Answer • Communist Revolution in Russia • Spread of Communism, Anarchism, and Socialism • Women gain the right to vote (19th Amendment) • Prohibition (18th Amendment) • Immigration Restriction (Emergency Quota Act)

Question • What is an economic change that occurred during the 1920s?

Answer • Women enter new jobs in the workforce • Average worker’s pay increases by 33% • People start buying what they want, instead of just what they need (Consumerism) • African Americans quit working the cotton fields and move to the factories • Farmers cannot sell their crops

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