The New Era
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| 1389885978 | Normalcy | A return to "normal" life after the war. | 1 | |
| 1389885979 | Little Steel | Referring to Steel Companies who were not under the direct control of US Steel Corp. Referred to small steel companies such as U.S. Steel | 2 | |
| 1389885980 | General Motors | surpassed Ford as world's largest car manufacturer by introducing the concept of the annual model change in 1926. Example of new corporate Organization. Founded by William Durant | 3 | |
| 1389885981 | Trade Association | An interest group composed of companies in the same business or industry (the same "trade") that lobbies for policies that will benefit members of the group. | 4 | |
| 1389885982 | 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 | 5 | |
| 1389885983 | William Green | United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor and former president of the United Mine Workers. He led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952). He watched over the AFL as its membership was cut in half over the 1920's | 6 | |
| 1389885984 | A Phillip Randolph | organized the largeset labor union for blacks and wants to appeal to Roosevelt for black work rights and he threatens to have a march on Washington street. | 7 | |
| 1389885985 | Leo Frank | He was a Jewish superintendent of a company that was charged with the murder of Mary Phagan, a 14 year old girl. He was at first sentenced to be hanged, but the sentence was changed to life in prison. Soon, armed men broke into the prison and lynched Leo near Mary Phagan's home. | 8 | |
| 1389885986 | The Jazz singer | 1927 - The first movie with sound; this "talkie" was about the life of famous jazz singer; Al Jolson. | 9 | |
| 1389885987 | Will Hays | ran the production office "Hays Office" that cleaned up movies (ex: no sexual connotations allowed, no God's name in vain, no men & women in bed together unless the man had one foot on the floor) | 10 | |
| 1389885988 | Scopes Trial | 1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools | 11 | |
| 1389885989 | Herbert Hoover | 31st President of the United States, Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community; failed. | 12 | |
| 1389885990 | Warren Harding | 29th president of the US; Republican; "Return to Normalcy" (life as it had been before WWI-peace, isolation); presidency was marred by scandal | 13 | |
| 1389885991 | Ohio Gang | A group of poker-playing, men that were friends of President Warren Harding. Harding appointed them to offices and they used their power to gain money for themselves. They were involved in scandals that ruined Harding's reputation even though he wasn't involved. | 14 | |
| 1389885992 | 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 | 15 | |
| 1389885993 | 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 | 16 | |
| 1389885994 | Campanionate marriage | a form of marriage in which the partners agree not to have children and can be divorced by mutual consent, leaving neither spouse legally responsible for the financial welfare of the other. | 17 | |
| 1389885995 | New Professional Women | A widely publicized image during these times, portraying women as consistently working, but in reality, most women remained at home. | 18 | |
| 1389885996 | Harlem Renaissance | A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished | 19 | |
| 1389885997 | 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 | |
| 1389885998 | I'll Take My Stand | collection of essays published in 1930 that glorified the Southern agrarian lifestyle. Denounced as reactionary, but was above all a critique of industrialization. | 21 | |
| 1389885999 | The Noble Experiment | the term for prohibition laws against the sale and production of alcohol in order to cure many of society's evils- ultimately a failure. | 22 | |
| 1389886000 | 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. He was not convicted of any wrongdoing, however, until a judge in a federal court convicted him of income-tax evasion and sent him to jail in 1931. | 23 | |
| 1389886001 | 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. | 24 | |
| 1389886002 | 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. | 25 | |
| 1389886003 | Billy Sunday | American fundamentalist minister; he used colorful language and powerful sermons to drive home the message of salvation through Jesus and to oppose radical and progressive groups. | 26 | |
| 1389886004 | ACLU | The American Civil Liberties Union. It defends and preserves the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country. | 27 | |
| 1389886005 | Behaviourists | focus on the environmental rewards and punishers that maintain or discourage specific behaviors; Believe personality develops as a function of learning history | 28 | |
| 1389886006 | Henry Ford | 1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents | 29 | |
| 1389886007 | Ernest Hemingway | Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI, notable works include A Farewell to Arms | 30 | |
| 1389886008 | HL Mencken | wrote monthly magazine American Mercury that assailed marriage, patriotism, democracy, prohibition, Rotarians, and middle class American | 31 | |
| 1389886009 | Sinclair Lewis | United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951) | 32 | |
| 1389886010 | 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 | 33 | |
| 1389886011 | Self Made Man | according to this idea, those who achieved success in America did so not as a result of hereditary privilege or government favoritism, but through their own intelligence and hard work. As thought by John Jacob Astor. | 34 | |
| 1389886012 | Thomas Edison | American inventor best known for developing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures, as it was work of other people who originally created this ideas or worked on the prototype | 35 | |
| 1389886013 | Charles Lindergh | First pilot to fly straight from NY to Paris without stopping. He flew the spirit of St.Louis across the Atlantic. | 36 | |
| 1389886014 | Lost Generation | A group of American writers that rebelled against America's lack of cosmopolitan culture in the early 20th century. Many moved to cultural centers such as London in Paris in search for literary freedom. Prominent writers included T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway among others. | 37 | |
| 1389886015 | Birth of a Nation | Controversial but highly influential and innovative silent film directed by D.W. Griffith. It demonstrated the power of film propaganda and revived the KKK. | 38 | |
| 1389886016 | The New Klan | the social tensions of the 1920s were also expressed in the growth of the ku klux klan. the whites only klan scorned not just blacks but also immigrants, catholics, and jews. the organizations' power spread from the south to the midwest and the west. in oregon and indiana, klan-backed candidates were elected as governers. | 39 | |
| 1389886017 | Barrios | where many Mexican and Mexican Americans of the California region ended up living as the lower end of the state's working class, mostly in Los Angeles. | 40 | |
| 1389886018 | The American Plan | A reaction to the "closed-shop" industries where only union members could be employed. In an open shop, union membership is not required and was sometimes forbidden. Business leaders launched this open-shop campaign and called it the American Plan. Unions unsuccessfully fought the american Plan. | 41 | |
| 1389886019 | Parity | equality, as in amount, status, or value | 42 | |
| 1389886020 | McNary - Haugen Bill | A plan to rehabilitate American agriculture by raising the domestic prices of farm products *Effects of the protective tariff and burdens of debt and taxation had created a serious agricultural depression and grew steadily worse | 43 | |
| 1389886021 | Al Smith | A Catholic who ran for Pres of U.S. in 1928 and warned Americans that if a Catholic were elected to the Presidency democracy would disappear and Pope would run the country. (he lost) | 44 | |
| 1389886022 | 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. | 45 | |
| 1389886023 | Flappers | carefree young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts. The flapper symbolized the new "liberated" woman of the 1920s. Many people saw the bold, boyish look and shocking behavior of flappers as a sign of changing morals. Though hardly typical of American women, the flapper image reinforced the idea that women now had more freedom. | 46 | |
| 1389886024 | National Women's Party | A militant feminist group led by Alice Paul that argued the Nineteenth Amendment was not adequate enough to protect women's rights. They believed they needed a more constitutional amendment that would clearly provide legal protection of their rights and prohibit sex-based discrimination. | 47 | |
| 1389886025 | Alice Paul | head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her way of thinking. | 48 | |
| 1389886026 | 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." | 49 | |
| 1389886027 | Lochner vs. New York 1905 | Supreme Court ruled that states could not restrict ordinary workers' hours (NY had a law giving bakers a 10hr day), Supreme Court ruled that states could not restrict ordinary workers' hours | 50 | |
| 1389886028 | Teapot Dome Scandal | Scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil-drilling rights on government land in return for money | 51 | |
| 1389886029 | The Man Nobody Knows - Bruce F. Barton. | published in 1925 Barton presents Jesus as "the founder of modern business," in an effort to make the Christian story accessible to businessmen of the time. One of the best selling non-fiction books of the 20th century. The book was controversial because it depicted Jesus as being "the world's greatest business executive", the opposite description usually given. | 52 | |
| 1389886030 | National Origins Act of 1924 | A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s. | 53 |
