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| 3842391477 | 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; he was nicknamed the "Fighting Quaker" until a bomb destroyed his home; he then had a nervous breakdown and became known as the "Quaking Fighter." | 0 | |
| 3842393298 | Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti | Italian anarchists convicted and executed for murder despite scarce evidence against them | 1 | |
| 3842396110 | Horace Kallen | He defended the immigrants and said they needed their different cultures because they were unique, and stressed the preservation of identity | 2 | |
| 3842396111 | Randolph Bourne | He advocated greater cross-fertilization between immigrants and then America would become a multi-cultured nation | 3 | |
| 3842396112 | Al Capone | A mob king in Chicago who controlled a large network of speakeasies with enormous profits. His illegal activities convey the failure of prohibition in the twenties and the problems with gangs. | 4 | |
| 3842398012 | John Dewey | He was a philosopher who believed in "learning by doing" which formed the foundation of progressive education. He believed that the teachers' goal should be "education for life and that the workbench is just as important as the blackboard." | 5 | |
| 3842398013 | John T. Scopes | An educator in Tennessee who was arrested for teaching evolution. This trial represented the Fundamentalist vs the Modernist. The trial placed a negative image on fundamentalists, and it showed a changing America. | 6 | |
| 3842400077 | 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) | 7 | |
| 3842400078 | 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. | 8 | |
| 3842400079 | 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 | 9 | |
| 3842401754 | Bruce Barton | A founder of the "new profession" of advertising, which used the persuasion ploy, seduction, and sexual suggestion. He was a prominent New York partner in a Madison Avenue firm. He published a best seller in 1925, The Man Nobody Knows, suggesting that Jesus Christ was the greatest ad man of all time. He even praised Christ's "executive ability." He encouraged any advertising man to read the parables of Jesus. | 10 | |
| 3842401755 | Babe Ruth | "Home Run King" in baseball, provided an idol for young people and a figurehead for America | 11 | |
| 3842401756 | Jack Dempsey | United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (1895-1983) | 12 | |
| 3842403278 | Henry Ford | 1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents. | 13 | |
| 3842403279 | 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. | 14 | |
| 3842403280 | Charles Lindbergh | United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974) | 15 | |
| 3842404860 | D.W. Griffiths | The "Inventor of Hollywood", was an American film director who pioneered modern film-making techniques. Directed "Birth of A Nation" | 16 | |
| 3842404861 | Margaret Sanger | American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood. | 17 | |
| 3842406128 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis. | 18 | |
| 3842406129 | "Jelly Roll" Morton | African American pianist, composer, arranger, and band leader from New Orleans; Bridged that gap between the piano styles of ragtime and jazz; Was the first important jazz composer | 19 | |
| 3842408253 | Langston Hughes | African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. He wrote of African American hope and defiance, as well as the culture of Harlem and also had a major impact on the Harlem Renaissance. | 20 | |
| 3842408254 | Marcus Garvey | African American leader durin 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. | 21 | |
| 3842410020 | Edith Wharton | is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who wrote Ethan Frome | 22 | |
| 3842410021 | Willa Cather | Was a female American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains. Her works include: O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I | 23 | |
| 3842412161 | H. L. Mencken | attacked patriotism. prohibition, and other timely topics in his monthly magazine "The American Mercury" | 24 | |
| 3842412162 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Wrote literature opposing society, was not famous in his day but is now known for Great Gatsby and many other writings. | 25 | |
| 3842412163 | Ernest Hemingway | Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI, notable works include A Farewell to Arms | 26 | |
| 3842413677 | Sherwood Anderson | An American writer helped Ernest Hemingway into the literary community in Paris. Hemingway later parodied this writer's work, which led to a souring of the relationship between Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. | 27 | |
| 3842413678 | 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. | 28 | |
| 3842414831 | Eugene O'Neill | 20th Century playwright. Desire Under the Elms, The Hairy Ape, and The Iceman Cometh. Nobel laureate in literature | 29 | |
| 3842414832 | Zora Neale Hurston | African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance | 30 | |
| 3842414833 | Claude McKay | A poet who was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement and wrote the poem "If We Must Die" after the Chicago riot of 1919. | 31 | |
| 3842416567 | William Faulkner | Twentieth-century novelist, used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury, whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot. | 32 | |
| 3842416568 | nativist | A person who, especially in the United States in the 19th century, favors the interests of established inhabitants over those of immigrants. | 33 | |
| 3842418261 | cultural pluralism | A condition in which many cultures coexist within a society and maintain their cultural differences. | 34 | |
| 3842418262 | progressive education | student-centered concept of education used in the 1920s popularized by John Dewey. | 35 | |
| 3842418263 | red scare | A period of general fear of communists | 36 | |
| 3842420181 | Bolshevik revolution | 1917 uprising in Russia led by Vladimir Lenin which established a communist government and withdrew Russia from World War I. | 37 | |
| 3842420182 | Sacco and Vanzetti case | These 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. | 38 | |
| 3842421597 | Ku Klux Klan | This organization was a group of Americans that often engaged in the lynching of African Americans, Jews, Catholics, among many other groups that were not native-born white Protestants. | 39 | |
| 3842422898 | 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. It also glorified KKK members and carpetbaggers. | 40 | |
| 3842422899 | Immigration Act of 1924 | This act abolished the National Origins system; increased annual admission to 170,000 and put a population cap of 20,000 on immigrants from any single nation. | 41 | |
| 3842424854 | national origins quota system | (1924) limited Europe immigration in 1924. It was widely supported by rural areas and banned all Asian immigrants from coming to the US. It affected the flow of immigrants into the US and hurt diversity. It was also considered the most enduring of the rural counterattacks and lasted until the 1960s | 42 | |
| 3842424855 | "melting pot" | the mixing of cultures, ideas, and peoples that has changed the American nation. The United States, with its history of immigration, has often been called a melting pot. | 43 | |
| 3842428155 | Volstead Act | Bill passed by Congress to enforce the language of the 18th Amendment. This bill made the manufacture and distribution of alcohol illegal within the borders of the United States. | 44 | |
| 3842428156 | Lindbergh Law | Made interstate abduction in certain circumstances a death-penalty offense. | 45 | |
| 3842428157 | 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. | 46 | |
| 3842429907 | Bible Belt | The region of the American South, extending roughly from North Carolina west to Oklahoma and Texas, where Protestant Fundamentalism and belief in literal interpretation of the Bible were traditionally strongest. | 47 | |
| 3842429908 | The Man Nobody Knows | One of the most successful books of the 1920s due to the advertising executive Bruce Barton. It portrayed Jesus Christ as not only a religious prophet but also a super salesman. Bruce advertised the message that Jesus had been concerned with living a full and rewarding life and that men and women of the twentieth century should do the same. | 48 | |
| 3842429909 | Model T | A cheap and simple car designed by Ford. It allowed for more Americans to own a car. | 49 | |
| 3842430071 | Fordism | System of standardized mass production attributed to Henry Ford. | 50 | |
| 3842432539 | scientific management | a management theory using efficiency experts to examine each work operations and find ways to minimize the time needed to complete it | 51 | |
| 3842432540 | Amos 'n' Andy | Various regions heard voices with standardized accents, and countless millions "tuned in" to perennial comedy favorites like "Amos 'n' Andy." White actors depicting African Americans in a pejorative way | 52 | |
| 3842435381 | The Jazz Singer | 1927 - The first movie with sound; this "talkie" was about the life of famous jazz singer; Al Jolson. | 53 | |
| 3842435382 | Equal Rights Amendment | constitutional amendment passed by Congress but never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender | 54 | |
| 3842435383 | Harlem Renaissance | A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished | 55 | |
| 3842437203 | United Negro Improvement Association | A group founded by Marcus Garvey to promote the settlement of American blacks in their own "African homeland" | 56 | |
| 3842437204 | The Weary Blues | Langston Hughes's poem about a musician who throws away all his troubles in his music, takes place on Lenox Avenue | 57 | |
| 3842438718 | The Sun Also Rises | E. Hemingway. A powerful expose of the life and values of the Lost Generation. All characters suffering some way from WWI. | 58 | |
| 3842438719 | Winesburg, Ohio | Explores the secret or little known lives of small town characters. Suggests that if people believe too much in one main idea or "truth" it may make them "grotesque". Employs a young local news reporter to provide a medium for people to tell their stories. Mentions subjects previously considered taboo like premarital sex and adultery. | 59 | |
| 3842438720 | Babbitt | a self-satisfied person concerned chiefly with business and middle-class ideals like material success a member of the American working class whose unthinking attachment to its business and social ideals is such to make him a model of narrow-mindedness and self-satisfaction; | 60 | |
| 3842441003 | The Sound and the Fury | Written by William Faulkner. A Southern family on the decline crumbles completely when one of his members has a child out of wedlock. Family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them die tragically. Title taken from Macbeth. "tale told from [different points of views], full of sound and fury | 61 | |
| 3842445877 | The Great Gatsby | is a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book takes place from spring to autumn 1922, during a prosperous time in the United States known as the Roaring Twenties. It's about a self-made man who woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves | 62 |
