The New Era
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| 600285263 | Normalacy | returning to a normal life after the war | |
| 600285264 | Little Steel | The smaller steel companies were known as this. They were unyielding in their opposition. | |
| 600285265 | General Motors | Regarded as the most powerful corporation in the world, in the late 1930's. UAW (United Auto Workers) took it over. | |
| 600285266 | Trade Association | nonprofit organization that promotes the interests of a particular industry | |
| 600285267 | Welfare Capitalism | when companies provide incentives to build better relationships with employees; health insurance, safety standards, buy stock in the company | |
| 600285268 | William Green | United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952) | |
| 600285269 | Phillip Randolph | African American labor leader who achieved equal rights at the workplace; Leader of Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car | |
| 600285270 | Barrios | where many Mexican and Mexican Americans of the California region ended up living as the lower end of the state's working class, mostly in Los Angeles. | |
| 600285271 | The American Plan | A reaction to the "closed-shop" industries where only union members could be employed. In an open shop, union membership is not required and was sometimes forbidden | |
| 600285272 | Parity | functional equality | |
| 600285273 | McNary-Haugen Bill | it sought to keep agricultural prices high by having the government buy surpluses to sell abroad, vetoed twice by Coolidge | |
| 600285274 | Bruce Barton | a leader of the advertising industry and author of a new interpretation on Christ in The Man Nobody Knows | |
| 600285275 | Henry Ford | United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947) | |
| 600285276 | Ernest Hemingway | One of the most famous Lost Generation writer | |
| 600285277 | H L Mencken | young author; published the monthly American Mercury; assailed marriage, patriotism, democracy, prohibition, Rotarians, and the middle class Americans; dismissed the South and attacked the Puritans | |
| 600285278 | Sinclair Lewis | United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951) | |
| 600285279 | F Scott Fitzgerald | writer of "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby" who coined the term "Jazz Age" | |
| 600285280 | John Dewey | United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952) | |
| 600285281 | Harlem Renaissance | a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished | |
| 600285282 | Langston Hughes | This man was well known for making the Harlem Renaissance famous because of his poems. | |
| 600285283 | I'll Take My Stand | collection of essays published in 1930 that glorified the Southern agrarian lifestyle. Denounced as reactionary, but was above all a critique of industrialization. | |
| 600285284 | The Noble Experiment | Prohibition | |
| 600285285 | Al Capone | United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947) | |
| 600285286 | Wets and Dries | names given to supports or opponents of the prohibition | |
| 600285287 | National Origins Act 1924 | in 1924 and 1929, congress imposed even more restrictions on immigrants. in addition, the US completely prohibited immigration from Asia. | |
| 600285288 | Leo Frank | American Jew lynched in Atlanta for the murder of a white girl superintendent of a pencil factory | |
| 600285289 | The Jazz Singer | first movie with sound | |
| 600285290 | Will Hays | Ran the production office known as the Hays Office that censored or cleaned up movies | |
| 600285291 | New Professional Woman | used to describe the women that were joining the workplace | |
| 600285292 | Behaviorists | Social scientists who focus on the environmental rewards and punishers that maintain or discourage specific behaviors. | |
| 600285293 | companionate marriage | A form of marriage in which the husband and wife are expected to be emotionally intimate and to engage in social activities together | |
| 600285294 | Margaret Sanger | she organized a birth-control movement which openly championed the use of contraceptives in the 1920's. | |
| 600285295 | Flapper | women in the 1920's who bobbed their hair, wore short skirts, and defied the morals and restrictions of the earlier generations | |
| 600285296 | National Women's Party | a women's organization founded in 1916 that fought for women's rights during the early 20th century in the United States, particularly for the right to vote on the same terms as men | |
| 600285297 | Alice Paul | head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her way of thinking. | |
| 600285298 | League of Women's Voters | A group that encourages women to vote. Before the nineteenth amendment, they sought women's suffrage. | |
| 600285299 | Sheppard-Towner Act | U.S. Act of Congress providing federal funding for maternity and child care, a response to the lack of adequate medical care for women and children | |
| 600285300 | Self-Made Man | according to this idea, those who achieved success in America did so not as a result of hereditary privilege or government favoritism, but through their own intelligence and hard work. As thought by John Jacob Astor. | |
| 600285301 | Thomas Edison | Inventor of lightbulb, phonograph and numerous other innovations | |
| 600285302 | Charles Lindberg | American hero who was the first to fly solo from New York to Paris | |
| 600285303 | Lost Generation | Group of writers in 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often choose to flee to Europe | |
| 600285304 | D W Griffith | carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking. | |
| 600285305 | The New Klan | They were part of the hysteria response to the changes, but they began to not discriminate against just blacks but jews and most foreigners in general. This group came back stronger and more powerful than ever. | |
| 600285306 | Fundamentalists | Broad movement in Protestantism in the U.S. which tried to preserve what it considered the basic ideas of Christianity against criticism by liberal theologies. It stressed the literal truths of the Bible and creation. | |
| 600285307 | Modernists | An artist who rejected enlightenment thinking and tried to reshape, and improve on the surrounding world. It developed partly in response to WWI in that it stands out against technology. | |
| 600285308 | Billy Sunday | Preacher and Former Pro Baseball Player- Key figure in the prohibition movement | |
| 600285309 | American Civil Liberties Union | This group offered free counsel to any Tennessee educator willing to defy the law in Tennessee against teaching evolution. | |
| 600285310 | The Scopes Trial | - it's illegal to teach evolution in schools (fundamentalism) | |
| 600285311 | Al Smith | Governor of New York. Lost presidential election to Herbert Hoover. Emphasized his lowly beginnings, identified himself with immigrants, and campaigned as a man of the people. | |
| 600285312 | Herbert Hoover | Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community. | |
| 600285313 | Warren Harding | president who called for a return to normalcy following WWI | |
| 600285314 | Calvin Coolidge | Became president when Harding died. Tried to clean up scandals. Business prospered and people's wealth increased | |
| 600285315 | The Ohio Gang | Group of corrupt friends that Harding brought to White House. More interested in exploiting their jobs for their own financial benefit. | |
| 600285316 | Teapot Dome Scandal | symbol of government corruption; government oil reserves were secretly leased to oil companies in exchange for financial compensation | |
| 600285317 | Andrew Mellon | Secretary of Treasury under President Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, who instituted a Republican policy of reduced government spending, lower taxes to the wealthy and higher tariffs | |
| 600285318 | Lochner v. New York 1905 | Declared unconstitutional a New York act limiting the working hours of bakers due to a denial of the 14th Amendment rights. |
