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| 540443222 | Mitchell Palmer | Was head of the Witch hunt that was related to the red scare that occured around the time of the Russian revolution. He jailed anyone who spoke of communism or anarchy. The people who were put in jail were treated terribly. | |
| 540443223 | Randolph Bourne | This man was a "cultural pluralist" along with Horace Kallen. He opposed the idea of immigration restriction. He, in fact, believed in cosmopolitan interchange which was destined to make America "not a nationality but a trans-nationality." In this view the U.S. should serve as the vanguard of a more international and multicultural age. (pgs. 724-725) | |
| 540443224 | Al Capone | United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947) | |
| 540443225 | John T. Scopes | a science teacher who challenged the ban in Tennessee as unconstitutional and decided to test the law in the courts, he asked a friend to file suit against him for teaching evolution this was known as a popular case | |
| 540443226 | William Jennings Bryan | United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925) | |
| 540443227 | Clarence Darrow | A famed criminal defense lawyer for Scopes, who supported evolution. He caused William Jennings Bryan to appear foolish when Darrow questioned Bryan about the Bible. | |
| 540443228 | Andrew Mellon | United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937) | |
| 540443229 | Bruce Barton | a leader of the advertising industry and author of a new interpretation on Christ in The Man Nobody Knows | |
| 540443230 | Henry Ford | 1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents. | |
| 540443231 | Frederick W. Taylor | an engineer, an inventor, and a tennis player. He sought to eliminate wasted motion. Famous for scientific-management especially time-management studies. | |
| 540443232 | Charles Lindbergh | United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974) | |
| 540443233 | Margaret Sanger | United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood | |
| 540443234 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939) | |
| 540443235 | H. L. Meneken | Journalist debunker who ridiculed religion, politics, arts, and democracy | |
| 540443236 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | A novelist and chronicler of the jazz age. His wife, Zelda and he were the "couple" of the decade but hit bottom during the Depression. His noval THE GREAT GATSBY is considered a masterpiece about a gangster's pursuit of an unattainable rich girl., A novelist and chronicler of the jazz age. His wife, Zelda and he were the "couple" of the decade but hit bottom during the Depression. His noval THE GREAT GATSBY is considered a masterpiece about a gangster's pursuit of an unattainable rich girl. | |
| 540443237 | Ernest Hemingway | Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI, notable works include A Farewell to Arms | |
| 540443238 | Sinclair Lewis | American novelist who satirized middle-class America in his 22 works, including Babbitt (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927). He was the first American to receive (1930) a Nobel Prize for literature. | |
| 540443239 | William Faulkner | United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962) | |
| 540443240 | Nativist | advocating the perpetuation of native societies | |
| 540443241 | Cultural pluralism | a condition in which many cultures coexist within a society and maintain their cultural differences. | |
| 540443242 | Progressive education | John Dewey led movement that focused on personal growth, not mastery of body of knowledge and learning through experience. | |
| 540443243 | Red scare | a period of general fear of communists | |
| 540443244 | Sacco and Vanzetti case | Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants charged with murdering a guard and robbing a shoe factory in Braintree; Mass. The trial lasted from 1920-1927. Convicted on circumstantial evidence; many believed they had been framed for the crime because of their anarchist and pro-union activities. | |
| 540443245 | KKK | Stands for Ku Klux Klan and started right after the Civil War in 1866. The Southern establishment took charge by passing discriminatory laws known as the black codes. Gives whites almost unlimited power. They masked themselves and burned black churches, schools, and terrorized black people. They are anti-black and anti-Semitic. | |
| 540443246 | The Birth of a Nation | A dramatic silent film from 1915 about the South during and after the Civil War. It was directed by D. W. Griffith. The film, the first so-called spectacular, is considered highly controversial for its portrayal of African-Americans. | |
| 540443247 | Immigration Quota Act | This was passed in 1924 which cut quotas for foreigners from 3 % to 2% of the total number of immigrants. The main purpose was to freeze America's existing racial composition which was largely Northern European. It also prevented Japanese immigration which led to fury in Japan. | |
| 540443248 | Volstead Act | The Act specified that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act." It did not specifically prohibit the purchase or use of intoxicating liquors | |
| 540443249 | 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. | |
| 540443250 | 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. | |
| 540443251 | United Negro Improvement Association | A group founded by Marcus Garvey to promote the settlement of American blacks in their own "African homeland" (pg 741) | |
| 540443252 | The Great Gatsby | A novel depicting the picturesque idea of the self made American man and enterpreneur who rose from obscurity. was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. (pages 742-7430 |
