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| 8309564259 | A. Mitchell Palmer | Attorney General who rounded up many suspects who were thought to be un-American and socialistic; he helped to increase the Red Scare | 0 | |
| 8309564260 | Sacco and Vanzetti | Italian anarchists that were convicted in 1921 of the murder of a Massachusetts factory paymaster; electrocuted in 1927. Represented a negative reaction to anarchists and immigrants. | 1 | |
| 8309564261 | Al Capone | A notorious Chicago bootlegger and gangster during Prohibition, He evaded conviction for murder but served most of an eleven-year sentence for tax evasion. | 2 | |
| 8309564262 | John T. Scopes | A Tennessee high-school biology teacher who was prosecuted in 1925 for teaching the theory of evolution. | 3 | |
| 8309564263 | Henry Ford | He developed the Model T Ford and pioneered its assembly-line production. | 4 | |
| 8309564264 | Charles A. Lindbergh | An American aviator who made history as the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic. | 5 | |
| 8309564265 | Margaret Sanger | Organized a birth-control movement which openly championed the use of contraceptives in the 1920's | 6 | |
| 8309564266 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Novelist who captured the glamour and spiritual emptiness of the 1920s jazz age in novels such as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby. | 7 | |
| 8309564267 | Ernest Hemingway | Novelist and author, former newspaper correspondent and wartime ambulance driver, he became an international celebrity for his searing war novels | 8 | |
| 8309564268 | Langston Hughes | African-American poet and leading literary voice of the Harlem Renaissance. | 9 | |
| 8310293788 | John Dewey | He was a philosopher/educator who believed in "learning by doing" which formed the foundation of progressive education. He believed that the teacher's goal should be "education for life and that the workbench is just as important as the blackboard." | 10 | |
| 8310304900 | William Jennings Bryan | He joined the prosecution in the "Scopes Monkey Trial" against the teachings of evolution in schools. He was purported to be an expert on the Bible, but was made to look silly in the case and, sadly, died soon afterward. | 11 | |
| 8310310693 | Clarence Darrow | He was a famed criminal defense lawyer and represented Scopes, who supported evolution. | 12 | |
| 8310328225 | Andrew Mellon | He was the Secretary of the Treasury during the Harding Administration. He felt it was best to invest in tax-exempt securities rather than in factories that provided prosperous payrolls. He believed in trickle-down economics (Hamiltonian economics where the rich let their money trickle down to everyone else). | 13 | |
| 8310328226 | Bruce Barton | He was a founder of the "new profession" of advertising, which used the persuasion ploy, seduction, and sexual suggestion. | 14 | |
| 8310350355 | Frederick W. Taylor | He was an engineer, an inventor, and a tennis player. He sought to eliminate wasted motion. He was famous for scientific-management, especially time-management studies where he mastered movements and wasted movements and therefore helped master the assembly line. | 15 | |
| 8310366564 | Sigmund Freud | He was a Viennese physician that believed sexual repression was responsible for a variety of nervous and emotional diseases. He argued that health demanded sexual gratification and liberation. His writings seemed to justify the new sexual frankness of the 1920s and were taken to heart by the "flaming youth" and "jazz age" of the time | 16 | |
| 8310380301 | Sinclair Lewis | He was the chief chronicler of midwestern life. He was a master of satire and wrote Main Street in 1920. Then he wrote Babbit which described a materialistic middle-class American businessman. | 17 |
