Seeing as a sitting president was assassinated by an anarchist, there were numerous red scares and several brutal foreign adventures, not really.
I hate to be "that guy", but there weren't any Red Scares in the US until 1919.
The era was quaint in terms of technology (iceboxes, silent movies, etc.) but life was not better than today for most people.
As for Mikado's picture, which took my breath away: Were lynchings just as common in cities as in rural areas? There was a horrible, graphic one in Waco in 1915 and one of a Jewish man in Atlanta around 1913 but I wonder if the ones in cities received more press coverage due to more witnesses & newspapers whereas out in the boondocks it would be swept under the rug. You would think people in cities would be more civilized and less likely to tolerate these tragedies.
