Context

Question 1

War

Answer 1

Nick ‘restless’
Gatsby did ‘extraordinarily well’
1917 us joined- caused economic boom of twenties

Question 2

View New York as impersonal machine

Answer 2

John dos Passos ‘Manhattan transfer’ 1925

Question 3

Americans prolific inventors as they prefer machines doing work

Answer 3

‘Studies in classic American literature’ Lawrence 1923

Question 4

Lost generation

Answer 4

Hemingway- critical of patriotism

Sinclair lewis

Question 5

19th amendment

Answer 5

1919 women vote

Question 6

Evolution

Answer 6

John scopes trial 1925 against butler act

Question 7

Fitz uni

Answer 7

Never graduated Princeton but joined army like Gatsby

Question 8

Immigration act

Answer 8

1924 limited European and Asian immigration

Question 9

Sarah grand

Answer 9

‘The new woman’

Coined in ‘the new Aspect of the woman question’

Question 10

Henry James

Answer 10

Growth of Feminist and educated women

Question 11

F Scott on flappers

Answer 11

‘Lovey expensive and about 19’

Question 12

Androgynous

Answer 12

‘Garçonne’ or little boy instigated by Chanel

Question 13

Pilgrims

Answer 13

‘Gods chosen people’ mission to become a ‘beacon’ to world

Question 14

Hawthorne

Answer 14

Pilgrims had to build churches and prisons

Question 15

Turnbull

Answer 15

Fitz ‘saw the beauty of life and wanted to celebrate it’

Question 16

Great neck

Answer 16

Newly rich

Question 17

Stoddard

Answer 17

‘Rising tide of colour’ scientific racism

Question 18

Mencken

Answer 18

Only g loves and breathes

Question 19

Troy

Answer 19

G is ‘symbol of America’

Question 20

Judith fetterly

Answer 20

American lit mostly written by men, definition becomes male

Question 21

Indian god

Answer 21

Wakan tanka

Question 22

Homestead act

Answer 22

Encouraged settlement on the plains

Question 23

Manifest destiny

Answer 23

John gast painting

Question 24

Big eagle

Answer 24

‘Give up their life and live like white men’

Question 25

Great Plains massacre

Answer 25

60 million to 15 million by 1870

1900 less than 100

Question 26

Ghost dance

Answer 26

Buffalo and dead Indian would rise and white men would disappear

Question 27

Wounded knee

Answer 27

Native Americans had officially lost the west