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| United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz. | ||
| An environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilated | ||
| A young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress | ||
| Led group that tried to get rid of communists | ||
| A leader of organized crime in Chicago in the late 1920s, involved in gambling, the illegal sale of alcohol, and prostitution. He was sent to prison in the 1930s for income tax evasion. | ||
| One of the first comedy shows on the radio. Shows like this helped bring families and neighbors together. It brought the nation together as well by overcoming cultural differences. | ||
| 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. | ||
| A business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards | ||
| Area of south where tradition evangelical and fundamentalist religion remained strong | ||
| First full length classic created in 1915. It glorified the KKK of reconruction days and defamed both blacks and Northern carpetbaggers | ||
| A leader of the advertising industry and author of a new interpretation on Christ in "The Man Nobody Knows" | ||
| A special magnetic charm or appeal | ||
| American hero who was the first to fly solo from New York to Paris | ||
| Lawyer who defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial, arguing that evolution should be taught in schools. | ||
| 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. | ||
| A working establishment where only people belonging to the union are hired. It was done by the unions to protect their workers from cheap labor. | ||
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| a condition in which many cultures coexist within a society and maintain their cultural differences. | ||
| Man who was the maker of the movie "The Birth of a Nation" which premiered in 1915. | ||
| Author in the late 19th and early 20th century, Best known for her novel Ethan Frome. | ||
| Amendment which banned the sale of alcohol in 1919 | ||
| Constitutional amendment passed by Congress but was never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender | ||
| An American writer of fiction who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. | ||
| Playwright who won 4 Pulitzer Prizes for his tragic live-like dramas | ||
| Writer of "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby" who coined the term "Jazz Age" | ||
| System of standardized mass production attributed to Henry Ford | ||
| An engineer that made the book The Princples of Scientific Management. | ||
| Pioneering architect of "form follows function" | ||
| a Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the Bible are literally true | ||
| The most famous American professional baseball player of 20th century. | ||
| Man who In 1924, founded The American Mercury, which featured works by new writers and much of Mencken's criticism on American taste, culture, and language. He attacked the shallowness and conceit of the American middle class. | ||
| A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished | ||
| United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production | ||
| Primarily responsible for the development of the theory of cultural pluralism | ||
| Also known as the Johnson-Reed Act. Federal law limiting the number of immigrants that could be admitted from any country to 2% of the amount of people from that country who were already living in the U.S. as of the census of 1890. | ||
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| first talking movie | ||
| Professor at Columbia University who formed the foundation of so-called progressive education | ||
| Biology teacher who voluntarly tought evolution and got arrested | ||
| White supremacy organization that intimidated blacks out of their newly found liberties | ||
| This man was well known for making the Harlem Renaissance famous because of his poems. | ||
| Law which made interstate abduction in certain circumstances a death-penalty offense | ||
| 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. | ||
| United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood | ||
| The first widely available automobile powered by a gasoline engine | ||
| This established the maximum number of immigrants that could enter the States from each foreign country | ||
| A person who favors those born in his country and is opposed to immigrants | ||
| John Dewey led movement that focused on personal growth, not mastery of body of knowledge and learning through experience. | ||
| someone who commits crimes for profit | ||
| Writer and cultural critic who wrote a series of anti-war essays warning of the disastrous consequences for reform movements of all kinds. He was for cultural plurilism. | ||
| A period of general fear of communists | ||
| The act of repressing | ||
| In 1920 these two italian men were convicted of murder and robbery. They were found guilty and died in the electric chair unfairly | ||
| a management theory using efficiency experts to examine each work operations and find ways to minimize the time needed to complete it | ||
| Man who wrote the book, "Winesburg, Ohio" which was about small town life in America. | ||
| Founder of psychoanalysis | ||
| United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street | ||
| A radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under the control of labor unions | ||
| Book written by Bruce Barton and talked about how Jesus was the father of modern business. | ||
| Written by William Faulkner. About a Southern family on the decline crumbles completely when one of his members has a child out of wedlock. | ||
| A novel written by Ernest Hemingway that examines the lives of American expatriates in Europe | ||
| Langston Hughes rhymed couplets enveloped around blues refrains | ||
| A novel depicting the picturesque idea of the self made American man and enterpreneur who rose from obscurity. It was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. | ||
| A 1903 black and white silent western film that was 14 minutes long and the first film to tell a coherent story. Due to its success it is credited for the creating Hollywood and the success of the movie industry. | ||
| The criminal class | ||
| A group founded by Marcus Garvey to promote the settlement of American blacks in their own "African homeland" | ||
| The means of enforcing Prohibition | ||
| United States writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947) | ||
| America's greatest 20th century novelist; wrote The Sound and the Fury, much of whose drama is confusedly seen through the eyes of an idiot. | ||
| United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school | ||
| Sherwood Anderson | ||
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