Context Flashcards
1
Q
The American Dream
A
- Individualism
- You can get what you want if you work for it
- America was ‘Beacon on the Hill’ and a new land
- ‘Land of the free’
- Can’t obtain the dream
2
Q
Women
A
- More liberties and rights
- Short hair, careers, smoking
- More philandering
- Still expected to live off husbands money
3
Q
Prohibition
A
- Ban on the sell of alcohol
4
Q
WW1
A
- The Lost Generation
- America was isolationist
- Tom and Nick and Gatsby were all soldiers
5
Q
Economic boom
A
- Wall street was booming
- Capitalist culture
- Social mobility
6
Q
The Roaring Twenties
A
- Time of prosperity and fun
- New culture movements
- New architecture
- More liberties
7
Q
Nativism
A
- White superiority
- 1922 Immigration Act
