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| 158621254 | Billy Sunday | Famous baseball player during the 1880s who became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century | |
| 158621255 | red scare | Intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas | |
| 158621256 | A. Mitchell Palmer | Attorney General who, with his excess of zeal, rounded up suspects totaling about six thousand; given the nickname "Fighting Quaker", later called the "Quaking Fighter" | |
| 158621257 | Buford | Dubbed the "Soviet Ark" and sent 249 alien radicals to Soviet Russia | |
| 158621258 | Nicola Sacco | Shoe-factory worker convicted in 1921 of the murder of a Massachusetts paymaster | |
| 158621259 | Bartolomeo Vanzetti | Fish peddler convicted in 1921 of the murder of a Massachusetts paymaster | |
| 158621260 | Ku Klux Klan | Group that increased exponentially during the early 1920s, resembled the antiforeign "nativist" movements of the 1850s | |
| 158621261 | Bible Belt | Area of south where tradition evangelical and fundamentalist religion remained strong | |
| 158621262 | Emergency Quota Act of 1921 | Act in 1921 that limited immigration to three percent of the people of their nationality living in the US in 1910 | |
| 158621263 | Immigration Act of 1924 | Replaced the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, cutting down to two percent using the 1890 census; in favor of Northern Europe | |
| 158621264 | Japan | Mass riots took place here in response to the Immigration Act of 1924; a super-patriot committed suicide near the American embassy in his country | |
| 158621265 | Eighteenth Amendment | Amendment passed in 1920 forbidding the sale and manufacture of liquor and making it illegal; also known as the "dry" amendment | |
| 158621266 | home brew and bathtub gin | Homemade alcohol often so potent it could kill or blind the drinker | |
| 158621267 | typewriters | Machine guns used by rival gangsters to erase competition | |
| 158621268 | Al Capone | United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion | |
| 158621269 | St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Al Capone's orchestrated attack against rival gangster "Bugsy" Moran in Chicago in 1929 | |
| 158621270 | Charles A. Lindbergh | Son was kidnapped in 1932 for a ransom and was later murdered | |
| 158621271 | Lindbergh Law | Interstate abduction in certain circumstances was now a death penalty offense | |
| 158621272 | John Dewey | Professor from Columbia University who believed in "learning by doing", forming the foundation of progressive education. | |
| 158621273 | Rockefeller Foundation | Launched a public-health program in the South in 1909 and wiped out hookworm and increased nutrition/health care | |
| 158621274 | bestial hypothesis | Teachings of evolution according to some public schools in the south | |
| 158621275 | Monkey Trial | The 1925 trial in Dayton, TN that tested the state law that evolution could not be taught in school | |
| 158621276 | John T. Scopes | High-school biology teacher indicted for teaching evolution | |
| 158621277 | William Jennings Bryan | Famous political figure who argued for the prosecution of Scopes | |
| 158621278 | Clarence Darrow | Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial and argued that evolution should be taught in schools. | |
| 158621279 | Andrew Mellon | Secretary of the Treasury during President Harding's presidency; successfully pushed Congress to lower taxes | |
| 158621280 | Rouge River | Location of one of Henry Ford's plants in Detroit that produced a finished automobile nearly every ten seconds | |
| 159655446 | Bruce Barton | Prominent New Yorker in a Madison Avenue farm who set forth the thesis that Jesus Christ was the greatest adman of all time. | |
| 159655447 | George H. Ruth | Home-run hero who had countless fans at his baseball games in the early 20th century. | |
| 159655448 | Yankee Stadium | The 'house that "Babe" Ruth built' due to his large gathering of fans. | |
| 159655449 | Frederick W. Taylor | Prominent inventor and engineer who sought to eliminate wasted motion; "Father of Scientific Management" | |
| 159655450 | Henry Ford | United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production of Model T's ("Tin Lizzies") | |
| 159655451 | Henry Ford | People's choice for presidential nomination in 1924 according to a national newspaper and magazine poll | |
| 159655452 | Automobiles | Caused over one million deaths of an American in 1951, more than all previous American deaths in war on battlefields | |
| 159655453 | Wright brothers | Performed the "miracle at Kitty Hawk" in north Carolina, keeping a plane airborne for 12 seconds at 120 feet. | |
| 159655454 | flying coffins | Name given for airplanes during World War I, airplanes became increasingly used for delivering mail | |
| 159655455 | Charles A. Lindbergh | Flew across the Atlantic in 1927 on his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from New York to Paris | |
| 159655456 | Marconi | Invented wireless telegraphy in the 1890s; this was later used for long-range communication in WWI (Last name only) | |
| 159655457 | Thomas A. Edison | Responsible for the invention of the moving picture; gained popularity in the 1890s | |
| 159655458 | movies | The first of these was in 1903; new industry was launched shortly after | |
| 159655459 | The Great Train Robbery | The first movie featured in a five-cent theater | |
| 159655460 | D.W. Griffith | Created "The Birth of a Nation", a movie glorifying the Ku Klux Klan | |
| 159655461 | The Jazz Singer | The first movie with talking, released in 1927 | |
| 159655462 | Margaret Sanger | Championed the use of contraceptives; "fiery feminist" | |
| 159655463 | National Women's Party | Campaigned in 1923 for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution | |
| 159655464 | flapper | Women in the 1920's who cut their hair short, wore short skirts, and defied the morals and restrictions of the earlier generations | |
| 159655465 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis | |
| 159655466 | jazz | A genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles | |
| 159655467 | W.C. Handy | Wrote the song "St. Louis Blues", instant classics with wailing saxophone | |
| 159655468 | Harlem | An African American section of New York City famous for its vibrant, creative culture | |
| 159655469 | Langston Hughes | This man was well known during the Harlem Renaissance; wrote "Weary Blues" in 1926 | |
| 159655470 | Marcus Garvey | West Indian who founded the UNIA to promote the resettlement of American blacks in Africa | |
| 159655471 | United Negro Improvement Association | Created by Garvey to promote the resettlement of American blacks in Africa | |
| 159655472 | Black Star Line Steamship Company | Established by Marcus Garvey to transport American blacks to Africa, went bankrupt 1923 | |
| 159655473 | Mencken | "Bad Boy of Baltimore", admired critical attitude towards American society; assailed marriage, patriotism, democracy, prohibition and the middle class (Last name only) | |
| 159655474 | beaux arts | A style of urban design that sought to combine the best elements of all the classic architectural styles. | |
| 159655475 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Minnesota-born Princetonian who became an overnight celebrity at the age of 24 in 1920 when he published "This Side of Paradise"; also published The Great Gatsby; cruelty and glamor of an achievement-oriented society | |
| 159655476 | Theodore Dreiser | Wrote "An American Tragedy" about the murder of a working girl by her socially ambitious lover; cruelty and glamor of an achievement-oriented society | |
| 159655477 | Ernest Hemingway | Wrote of American expatriates in Europe; "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms" | |
| 159655478 | Sherwood Anderson | Dissected various fictional personalities in "Winesburg, Ohio"; warped by psychological surroundings | |
| 159655479 | Sinclair Lewis | Hothead journalist in Minnesota who wrote 'Main Street" and "Babbitt"; women's war against provincialism and a real estate broker's conforming to the materialism of his group | |
| 159655480 | Babbitry | Smugness, middle class self satisfied narrow mindedness | |
| 159655481 | William Faulkner | Mississippian who wrote "Soldier's Pay", "The Sound and the Fury", and "As I Lay Dying"; bitter war novels and chronicles of the history of the Deep South | |
| 159655482 | Ezra Pound | Idahoan who deserted America for Europe and rejected America as "an old bitch civilization". Language, man; language. | |
| 159655483 | T.S. Eliot | Missourian from Harvard who took up residence in England and wrote several famous poems; influenced by Pound. | |
| 159655484 | Robert Frost | San Francisco-born poet who wrote about New England | |
| 159655485 | e. e. cummings | Graduate of Harvard; used little or no punctuation, rarely capitalized words unless for emphasis; became known for his concern for the individual and his ability to recognize life's ironies; unorthodox diction and peculiar typesetting | |
| 159655486 | Eugene O'Neill | New York dramatist and Princeton dropout who laid bare Freudian notions of sex in plays like "Strange Interlude" | |
| 159655487 | Greenwich Village | A seething cauldron of writers, painters, musicians, actors, and artists | |
| 159655488 | Empire State Building | 102 stories high building recognized as a great achievement of architecture | |
| 159655489 | Bull market | A period of increased stock trading and rising stock prices | |
| 159655490 | Bear market | A period in which prices of stock decrease for a prolonged period of time | |
| 159655491 | Bureau of the Budget | Created in 1921 to assist the President in preparing estimates for annual expenditures and receipts | |
| 159655492 | Andrew Mellon | Secretary of the Treasury under Harding; "the greatest secretary of the treasury since Hamilton" | |
| 159710819 | Kikes, Koons, and Katholics | Jews, Blacks, and Catholics; derogatory terms used by the KKK | |
| 159710820 | Fundamentalism | Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that the stories and details in the bible are literal | |
| 159710821 | Lost Generation | Group of writers in the 1920s who believed that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world without moral values; some fled to Europe | |
| 159710822 | on margin | To buy stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest; 10% typically | |
| 159710823 | trickle down | Also known as supply side economics, what is this called? | |
| 159710824 | supply side economics | The economic policy of stimulating the economy by cutting taxes for the wealthy; this wealth would trickle down to the poor |
