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| 20389592 | 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. | 0 | |
| 20389593 | red scare | Most instense outbreak of national alarm, began in 1919. Success of communists in Russia, American radicals embracing communism followed by a series of mail bombings frightened Americans. Attorney General A. MItchell Palmer led effort to deport aliens without due processs, with widespread support. Did not last long as some Americans came to their senses. Sacco/Vanzetti trial demonstrated anti-foreign feeling in 20's. Accused of armed robbery & murder, had alibis. "Those anarchists bastards". Sentenced to death and executed. | 1 | |
| 20389594 | A. 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." | 2 | |
| 20389595 | Buford | "Soviet Ark" ; 249 alien radicals deported to Soviet Union | 3 | |
| 20389596 | Sacco and Vanzetti case | Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti 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. | 4 | |
| 20389597 | KKK | a secret society of white Southerners in the United States | 5 | |
| 20389598 | Emergency Quota Act of 1921 | 1921 Act that stipulates only 3% of 1910 immigrants are allowed in | 6 | |
| 20389599 | Immigration Act of 1924 | This was passed in 1924--cut quotas for foreigners from 3 % to 2% of the total number of immigrants in 1890--purpose was to freeze America's existing racial composition (which was largely Northern European) --prevented Japanese from immigrating, causing outrage in Japan. | 7 | |
| 20389600 | Horace Kallen | believed in pluralism (preservation of identity) ; U.S. should provide protective canopy for ethnic & racial groups, believed in pluralism (preservation of identity) ;; U.S. should provide protective canopy for ethnic & racial groups | 8 | |
| 20389601 | Prohibition | a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; 18th Amendment | 9 | |
| 20389602 | drys | supported prohibition | 10 | |
| 20389603 | wets | people who drank and smuggled alcohol; opposed prohibition | 11 | |
| 20389604 | noble experiment | Another name for prohibition | 12 | |
| 20389605 | bootlegging | the act of making of transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | 13 | |
| 20389606 | Al Capone | "Scarface" United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947) | 14 | |
| 20389607 | Charles A. Lindbergh | He was the first person to fly to paris france a trans atlantic flight; flew The Spirit of St.Lewis | 15 | |
| 20389608 | John Dewey | United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952) | 16 | |
| 20389609 | Model T | Tin Lizzie | 17 | |
| 20389610 | D.W. Griffith | The Birth of a Nation | 18 | |
| 20389611 | H.L. Mencken | American Mercury | 19 | |
| 20389612 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | 20 | |
| 20389613 | Ernest Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms | 21 | |
| 20389614 | Sincliar Lewis | Main Street Babbit | 22 | |
| 20389615 | William Faulkner | The Sound and The Fury | 23 | |
| 20391033 | Ezra Pound | poet ;; "Make It New" doctrine | 24 | |
| 20391034 | T.S. Eliot | was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent". | 25 | |
| 20391035 | Frank Lloyd Wright | influential United States architect (1869-1959) | 26 | |
| 20391036 | Bureau of Budget | 1921 Republican Congress created ;; director was to aid President in preparing estimates of receipts & expenditures for submission to Congress as annual budget | 27 | |
| 20391037 | Fordism | system of standardized mass production attributed to Henry Ford | 28 | |
| 20391038 | Wright Brothers | Orville and Wilbur, Orville & Wilbur Wright ;; Dec. 17, 1903 "the miracle at Kitty Hawk", NC ;; first flight | 29 | |
| 20391039 | Guglielmo Marconi | Italian electrical engineer known as the father of radio (1874-1937) | 30 | |
| 20391040 | Al Jolson | United States singer (born in Russia) who appeared in the first full-length talking film (1886-1950) | 31 | |
| 20391041 | Margaret Sanger | United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood | 32 | |
| 20391042 | Alice Paul | United States feminist (1885-1977), Marched with the suffragist in England , was jailed and went on a hunger strike all to help British woman win the vote. returned home to support the cause of the suffrage for American woman | 33 | |
| 20391043 | Flappers | Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion | 34 | |
| 20391044 | Sigmund Freud | Said that human behavior is irrational; behavior is the outcome of conflict between the id (irrational unconscious driven by sexual, aggressive, and pleasure-seeking desires) and ego (rationalizing conscious, what one can do) and superego (ingrained moral values, what one should do). | 35 | |
| 20391045 | W.C. Handy | born in Florence; popularized many Blues songs during the 1920s | 36 | |
| 20391046 | Langston Hughes | Harlems best known writer | 37 | |
| 20391047 | Marcus Garvey | Many poor urban blacks turned to him. He was head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and he urged black economic cooperation and founded a chain of UNIA grocery stores and other business | 38 | |
| 20391048 | UNIA | Universal Negro Improvement Association started by Marcus Garvey. | 39 | |
| 20391049 | H.L. Mencken | American Mercury | 40 | |
| 20391050 | Fundamentalists | Conservative Christians who as a group have become more active in politics in the last two decades and were especially influential in the 2000 presidential election. | 41 | |
| 20391051 | Monkey Trial | John T. Scopes, John Scopes trial became known as this. • Clarence Darrow headed the ACLU's team of lawyers, and William Jennings Bryan eagerly accepted an invitation to assist the prosecution | 42 | |
| 20391052 | 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) | 43 | |
| 20391053 | Clarence Darrow | John T. Scope's | 44 | |
| 20391054 | Andrew Mellon | secratary of tresury 1921-33, beleived that the depression should run its course and that natural market forces would restore to full employment | 45 | |
| 20391055 | Bruce Barton | 1925 The Man Nobody Knows (Jesus Christ was perfect salesman & all advertisers should study his techniques) | 46 | |
| 20391056 | Jack Dempsey | United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (1895-1983) | 47 | |
| 20391057 | Frederick Taylor | an American efficiency engineer who wrote "The Principles of Scientific Management", which earned him the title "father of scientific management" | 48 |
