1. GET EXCITED (OR AT LEAST PRETEND)!!

2. Meet your teams!
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Team 2
Team 3
Is this guy for real?

3. Question
What is “Pop Culture?”

4. 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.

5. Question
What is consumerism?

6. 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.

7. Question
What is a flapper?

8. 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.

9. Question
What is Prohibition?

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

11. Question
What is a speakeasy?

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

13. Question
What is a bootlegger?

14. Answer
A person that smuggled alcohol during Prohibition.

15. Question
What is a moonshiner?

16. Answer
Someone who illegally produced alcohol during Prohibition.

17. Question
What is a gangster?

18. 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.

19. Question
What is the Red Scare?

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

21. Question
What is Communism?

22. 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.

23. Question
What is Capitalism?

24. 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

25. Question
What were the Palmer Raids?

26. 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.

27. Question
Sacco & Vanzetti Trial

28. 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.

29. Question
Emergency Quota System

30. 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.

31. Question
What was the Scopes Trial?

32. 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.

33. Question
What is Nativism?

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

35. Question
What was the Great Migration?

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

37. Question
Who was Babe Ruth?

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

39. Question
Who was Charles Lindbergh?

40. 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.

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

42. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

48. 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)

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

50. 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

51. Question
The American Dream developed in the 1920s. What is the American Dream?

52. Answer
The American Dream is the image of what it meant for a family to “live the good life” and make it into the middle class.
Themes in the American Dream:
Comfort
Status
Convenience

53. Question
What successes did African-Americans have in achieving the American Dream? Failures?

54. Answer Successes: Struggles: Invented Jazz
Jazz Musicians became first major music stars
Many got good factory jobs in Northern Cities
Struggles:
Jim Crow/Segregation/Discrimination
Poverty
Rise of KKK

55. Question
What successes did immigrants have in achieving the American Dream? Failures?

56. Answer Successes: Struggles:
Many achieved increases in pay, shorter working days, and safer working conditions.
Many were able to buy into the American Dream
Many were able to move from poverty into the Middle Class
Struggles:
Nativism
Red Scare
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Emergency Quota System
Palmer Raids

57. Question
What successes did women have in achieving the American Dream? Failures?

58. Answer Successes: Struggles: Flapper culture
More entered the workforce
19th Amendment (Right to Vote)
Major Hollywood Stars
Changes in the attitudes toward dating, marriage, and love
More women allowed to finish high school
Struggles:
Continued sexism in U.S. culture, especially Hollywood.
Prohibition (which the female vote helped pass) was repealed
Most women continued in traditional roles

59. Question
Ultimately, was Prohibition a success or a failure? Why?

60. Answer Arguments vary. Use your opinion, and back it up with examples.
Success:
First major initiative passed by the female vote
Alcoholism, public drunkenness, and alcohol-fueled violence (especially in the home) fell dramatically
Failure:
Organized crime developed in the major cities
Many people continued to drink anyway
It only lasted a decade

61. Question
What impact did advertisements have on American society? What did advertisements promise? How did advertisements reach the American people?

62. Answer
Advertisements helped the average American develop an idea of what went into the “American Dream.”
Advertisements promised products that offered, convenience, status, and comfort.
Most advertisements came from magazines and newspapers.

63. Question
Describe how the everyday life of teenagers changed in the 1920s.

64. Answer
Most teens now went high school instead of joining the workforce right away.
Most teens didn’t marry until later, since they were expected to finish school.
Many teens started participating in extracurricular activities and clubs.
Many teens started dating instead of courting.
Teens passed their time with new activities, such as movies, car rides, radio, and sporting events.
For the first time, teens had money of their own to spend. A teen culture developed, with movies, music, fashion all its own.