American Mosaic pg 525-537 Questions and Answers 2025/2026 Latest Update

Why did the American culture of the 1920s clash with traditional values? - ANS-radio,
movies advertising, and mass-circulation magazines promoted a national, secular
culture. But this new culture of consumption, pleasure, upward mobility, and sex
clashed with traditional values: hard work, thrift, church, family, home.
Identify the Temperance movement - ANS-Is a social movement and political issue in
the United States because of the many problems attributed to drinking, including
domestic violence, crime, and poverty. As a moral issue, temperance appealed to
middle-class reformers, who pressed for state laws to control or ban the sale of alcohol.
Identify Pabst, Schulz, Blaz and Miller - ANS-They were German enemies, most
treacherous, the most menacing
identity the 18th amendment. When was it ratified? - ANS-prohibited the manufacture,
sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.
ratified in June 1919
Identity speakeasies - ANS-Secret bars where alcohol could be purchased illegally.
Who was Al Capone? - ANS-The most famous underworld figure who power and wealth
were based on the sale of illegal alcohol.
Why did many Prohibitionist supporters eventually come to favor repeal of the 18th
amendment? - ANS-Prohibition stimulated too much illegal activity and it did not seem
worth the costs.
Identity the 21 amendment. When was it ratified? - ANS-The repeal of Prohibition. It
was ratified in 1933.
Identity the Lost Generation - ANS-Writers such as Ernest Hemingway and F Scott
Fitzgerald, whose works reflected their disillusionment with materialism, conformity, and
provincial prejudice that dominated American life in the 1920s.
Identity the Great Gatsby - ANS-Was a critique of the American success myth
From which areas of Europe did the mots recent wave of immigrants enter the United
States in 1920 and 1921? - ANS-Southern and Eastern Europe