Chapter XXXII: The "Roaring Twenties"

REVISED

  1. What was Normalcy? Why did Harding's statement about it cause confusion?
  2. What was the "Shadow of Blooming Grove?" Note: #2-8 straddle chapters 32-33
  3. Who were Carrie Phillips and Nan Britton?
  4. Why was Harry Daugherty unfit to be Attorney General?
  5. Why was Albert T. Fall unfit to be Secretary of the Interior?
  6. Why was Warren G. Harding unfit to be President?
  7. What mystery surrounded Harding's death? What did the Duchess have to do with it?
  8. Why were Americans so worried about the success of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia?
  9. Why was the case of Sacco and Vanzetti so outrageous to American liberals?
  10. How did the Immigration Quota Act cleverly restrict immigration beyond that of the Emergency Quota Act? Why was the Klan delighted?
  11. What were the good and bad effects of Prohibition?
  12. If Prohibition was hated by so many people, why did it ever come about?
  13. Why did Eliot Ness and others like him have such a difficult time trying to persecute people like Al Capone?
  14. Why didn't Al Capone like Bugs Moran and Eamon O'Banion? What happened to O'Banion on February 14, 1927?
  15. Why was the Scopes Monkey Trial such an important one for Fundamentalists and Modernists?
  16. What kinds of changes happened within the American economy to make the Twenties such a
    boom time?
  17. How did the internal combustion engine change the nature of America in the Twenties?
  18. What kinds of new entertainment developed in the Twenties?
  19. How did the theories of "sexual repression" and the recognition of a healthy libido help change relations between men and women?
  20. Who were the leaders of the "Lost Generation?" Why did the social conditions of the Twenties help create such an abundant literature?
  21. Why did the Bull Market of the Twenties happen? Why was much of it illusory?
  22. Identify:
    • Florida Land Swindle
    • Sinclair Lewis
    • F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • Red Grange
    • Babe Ruth
    • Joe Jackson
    • H.L. Mencken
    • Harlem Renaissance
    • Sigmund Freud
    • D.W. Griffith
    • Rudolf Valentino
    • KDKA
    • "The Shadow"
    • Charles Lindbergh
    • moonshine
    • bootleg
    • "Tin Lizzie"
    • Bruce Barton
    • Clarence Darrow
    • William J. Bryan
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