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| 5409441786 | Charles Lindbergh | United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974). | 0 | |
| 5409441787 | Time magazine | Became the first news magazine that focused on world news. | 1 | |
| 5409456940 | Samuel Insull | The CEO of an electrical empire that provided service to 39 states and made a lot of money. To make the companies worth more they bought stock in linked companies in other states. Because they were all connected, all of the companies went down together in a domino effect, so widespread downfall. | 2 | |
| 5409456941 | Henry Ford | 1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents. | 3 | |
| 5409434215 | Consumer culture | A culture in which personal worth and identity reside not in the people themselves but in the products with which they surround themselves. | 4 | |
| 5409440212 | Business Government partnership | Government officials worked closely with the associates, providing them with statistical research, assisting them to devise industry wide standards and urging them to stabilize wages and prices. | 5 | |
| 5409437709 | Calvin Coolidge | (1923-1925) and (1925-1929), taciturn; small gov't conservative; laissez faire ideology; in favor of immigration restriction (Immigration Act); reduced the tax burden; the Bonus Bill was passed over his veto; Revenue Act of 1924; Kellogg-Briand Pact. | 6 | |
| 5409437710 | Republican Dominance | 1870 all states had organized governments and were readmitted into the U.S. | 7 | |
| 5409436009 | Warren G. Harding | He had little regard for government or presidency. "return to normalcy" after Wilson and his progressive ideals. Office became corrupt: allowed drinking in prohibition, had an affair, surrounded himself with cronies. | 8 | |
| 5409436010 | Associated state | A system of voluntary business cooperation with government. The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry. | 9 | |
| 5409459085 | Federal Trade Commission | 1914 , A government agency established in 1914 to prevent unfair business practices and help maintain a competitive economy, support antitrust suits. | 10 | |
| 5409459086 | Teapot Dome Scandal | A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921. | 11 | |
| 5409460550 | League of Women Voters | League formed in 1920 advocating for women's rights, among them the right for women to serve on juries and equal pay laws. | 12 | |
| 5409462021 | 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. | 13 | |
| 5409462022 | CEOs | Much of their compensation is driven by stock price - this focused them on the short term; Also many did not understand the sophisticated financial products their firms peddle. | 14 | |
| 5409463441 | Oligopoly | A market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors. | 15 | |
| 5409463442 | Welfare capitalism | An approach to labor relations in which companies meet some of their workers' needs without prompting by unions, thus preventing strikes and keeping productivity high. | 16 | |
| 5409465239 | Dawes Plan | A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S. This circular flow of money was a success. | 17 | |
| 5409467219 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | Charged a high tax for imports thereby leading to less trade between America and foreign countries along with some economic retaliation. | 18 | |
| 5409467220 | Isolationism | A policy of non participation in international economic and political relations. | 19 | |
| 5409470292 | Washington Naval Arms | Treaty that stopped naval expansion so that we don't have to repeat the military obsession from WWI. | 20 | |
| 5409470293 | Conference 1921 | Makes the U.S members of the world court. | 21 | |
| 5409470349 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | Agreement signed in 1928 in which nations agreed not to pose the threat of war against one another. | 22 | |
| 5409472152 | Mass media | Means of communication such as newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet that can reach large, widely dispersed audiences. | 23 | |
| 5409472153 | Clara Bow | American actress who rose to stardom in silent film in the 1920's. | 24 | |
| 5409475651 | The Jazz Singer 1927 | 1927 - The first movie with sound; this "talkie" was about the life of famous jazz singer; Al Jolson. | 25 | |
| 5409475652 | Jazz music | Musical style developed by African-Americans at the beginning of the 20th century that is an amalgamation of African and European music, featuring improvisation, syncopation, poly rhythms and the use of "swing time". | 26 | |
| 5409475653 | Associated Press | Founded in 1848,Allows media outlets to buy stories, do not have to send reporters to every major city, able to offer readers more recent news, stories are pretty unbiased because trying to appeal to many media outlets and sell as many stories as possible. | 27 | |
| 5409477827 | 1920's Nativism | Speak our language, embrace our culture, or get out. Mostly targeted towards Eastern European immigrants. Called for limits on Eastern European immigration. Led to the quota system. | 28 | |
| 5409477828 | Emergency Immigration Act 1921 | The act banned all immigration from Asia, but it allowed free immigration from the Western Hemisphere, as the Southwest depended on Mexican and Central American labor. Set a QUOTA on immigrants, allowed in only 3% annually of any nationality that was already living in the United States in 1910, designed to favor N & W Europe and limit immigrants from S & E Europe. | 29 | |
| 5409479954 | National Origins Act 1924 | Act which restricted immigration from any one nation to two percent of the number of people already in the U.S. of that national origin in 1890. Severely restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, and excluded Asians entirely. | 30 | |
| 5409479955 | Ku Klux Klan | A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. White Supremacy. | 31 | |
| 5409479956 | Modernists | Believed that God was a "good guy" and the universe a pretty chummy place; these were the people who believed in God but were also able to except evolution and modern science. | 32 | |
| 5409481982 | Revivalists | Played a leading role in the social reform movements of the 1820s and 1830s. | 33 | |
| 5409481983 | Scopes Trial | 1925 Tennessee trial where teacher John Scopes was charged with teaching evolution; Darrow = defense; Bryan = prosecutor; demonstrated religious fundamentalism vs. modernism. | 34 | |
| 5409483444 | ACLU | It defends and preserves the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country. (American Civil Liberties Union) | 35 | |
| 5409485580 | Prohibition | Enforcement of prohibition proved difficult. After the 13 year, "Noble Experiment," prohibition ended with the passage of the 21st Amendment in 193. | 36 | |
| 5409485581 | Wets | People who did support alcohol being legal. | 37 | |
| 5409485582 | Drys | People who didn't support alcohol being legal. | 38 | |
| 5409487051 | 21st Amendment | Amendment which ended the Prohibition of alcohol in the US, repealing the 18th amendment. | 39 | |
| 5409500777 | Harlem Renaissance | Black literary and artistic movement centered in Harlem that lasted from the 1920s into the early 1930s that both celebrated and lamented black life in America; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were two famous writers of this movement. | 40 | |
| 5409502576 | Marcus Garvey & UNIA | African American leader during the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. Was deported to Jamaica in 1927. | 41 | |
| 5409502577 | Great Depression | Starting with collapse of the US stock market in 1929, period of worldwide economic stagnation and depression. Heavy borrowing by European nations from USA during WW1 contributed to instability in European economies. Sharp declines in income and production as buying and selling slowed down. Widespread unemployment, countries raised tariffs to protect their industries. America stopped investing in Europe. Lead to loss of confidence that economies were self adjusting. | 42 | |
| 5409504311 | Black Thursday & Black Tuesday | Worried investors begin to sell and stock prices fall; when people see them getting out of the market, they become extremely worried. | 43 | |
| 5409504312 | Reconstruction Finance | Agency established in 1932 to provide emergency relief to large businesses, insurance companies, and banks. | 44 | |
| 5409506955 | Corporation | A business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts. | 45 | |
| 5409506956 | Pump priming | Government action taken to stimulate the economy, as spending money in the commercial sector, cutting taxes, or reducing interest rates. | 46 | |
| 5409508562 | Hoovervilles | Shanty towns that the unemployed built in the cities during the early years of the Depression; the name given to them shows that the people blamed Hoover directly for the Depression. | 47 | |
| 5409508563 | "Bonus Army" | Group of WWI vets. that marched to D.C. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of their government war bonuses in cash. | 48 | |
| 5409510091 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Democratic candidate who won the 1932 election by a landslide. He refused to uphold any of Hoover's policies with the intent on enacting his own. He pledged a present a "New Deal" (its specific meaning ambiguous at the time to the American people) to the American public. | 49 | |
| 5409434216 | 20th Amendment | Commencement of Terms; Sessions of Congress; Death or Disqualification of President-Elect. | 50 |
