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| 6582451006 | Roaring Twenties | Beneath an appearance of calm and prosperity, America was experiencing fundamental economic and social changes. |  | 0 |
| 6582451007 | Isolationism | Refusing to become involved in other nations' disputes or problems. |  | 1 |
| 6582451008 | Recession | Downturn in the economy. | 2 | |
| 6582451009 | Red Scare | Fear of communism in America. |  | 3 |
| 6582451010 | Nativism | A dislike of foreigners. |  | 4 |
| 6582451011 | Ku Klux Klan | Dead for decades, the group found new life. Members were hostile to immigrants, Catholics, Jews and African Americans. |  | 5 |
| 6582451012 | Warren Harding | (Republican) Won the election of 1920 easily becoming the 29th President. Was hoped for by Americans to improve the economy, however was faced with a series of scandals. |  | 6 |
| 6582451013 | "Return to Normalcy" | A less ambitious foreign policy and a greater emphasis on peacetime production and prosperity at home. | 7 | |
| 6582451014 | Teapot Dome Scandal | The Secretary of Interior leased oil-rich lands in Wyoming to two business friends in exchange for personal bribes. |  | 8 |
| 6582451015 | Calvin Coolidge | Became the 30th president (1923-1929) when Harding died of pneumonia. He was known for practicing a rigid economy in money and words, and acquired the name "Silent Cal" for being so soft-spoken. He was a true republican and industrialist. Believed in the government supporting big business. His motto was "the business of America is business." |  | 9 |
| 6582451016 | Herbert Hoover | 31st President of the United States (1929-1932). In 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for re-election by Franklin Roosevelt |  | 10 |
| 6582451017 | "Rugged Individualism" | Herbert Hoover's belief that success was due to a system in which individuals were given a free education, equal opportunities and a will to succeed. | 11 | |
| 6582451018 | Henry Ford | An engineer and early automobile manufacturer. Produced the first affordable vehicle in the Model T. Introduced the assembly line. |  | 12 |
| 6582451019 | Buying on Credit | Buyer made a small down payment to take item home and then paid the rest in small monthly payments which included interest. | 13 | |
| 6582451020 | Speculation | The purchase of any item, not for personal use, but in hope of selling it later at a higher price. Common practice in the stock market and real estate. | 14 | |
| 6582451021 | Prohibition | Protestant reform movement that often saw liquor as the cause of poverty and crime. |  | 15 |
| 6582451022 | Frances Willard | Outspoken leader of the Temperance Movement. |  | 16 |
| 6582451023 | Eighteenth Amendment | Banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol in the US. |  | 17 |
| 6582451024 | Speakeasies | Underground drinking establishments during Prohibition. |  | 18 |
| 6582451025 | Twenty-first Amendment | Repeal of Prohibition. |  | 19 |
| 6582451026 | Scopes Monkey Trial | In Tennessee, a biology teacher was arrested and put on trial for teaching his class about Darwin's Theory of Evolution. |  | 20 |
| 6582451027 | Clarence Darrow | Defended John Scopes during the Monkey Trial. |  | 21 |
| 6582451028 | Immigration Acts | Laws designed to keep out immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. |  | 22 |
| 6582451029 | Eugenics | A pseudo-scientific belief that the human race could be improved by breeding. It was supposed that superior parents would have even better children. | 23 | |
| 6582451030 | Charles Davenport | A leading proponent of eugenics who believed preventing mentally ill people from having children would reduce mental illness and called for the reduction in immigration of "inferior races" from Eastern and Southern Europe. | 24 | |
| 6582451031 | Social Darwinism | Believed that different human races competed for survival just as different plants and animals did in the natural world. | 25 | |
| 6582451032 | Flapper | Young women rejected restrictive clothing and wore short dresses that exposed their arms, legs and body shape. Hair was cut short and choppy. Wore a lot of make-up. Went on dates and to dances without a chaperone. Enjoyed energetic dances such as the Charleston. |  | 26 |
| 6582451033 | Tin Pan Alley | An area of New York City where song-writing and musical ideas mixed together to form American popular music. Various styles such as blues, jazz and ragtime were mixed together. |  | 27 |
| 6582451034 | The Lost Generation | A new group of writers who rejected the desire for material wealth and believing that America had become overly materialistic and lacking in spirituality. Led by Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald. |  | 28 |
| 6582451035 | Great Migration | From 1910 to 1930, over 2 million African Americans moved from the South to the "Promised Land" of the Northeast and Midwest in search of industrial jobs and escape farming. | 29 | |
| 6582451036 | Harlem Renaissance | A general awakening of African American culture in music, dance, visual arts and writing which shared an unprecedented level of confidence, pride and optimism. | 30 | |
| 6582451037 | Langston Hughes | Recognized as one of America's best poets, his writings expressed the new mood of rugged determination to overcome racial prejudice. |  | 31 |
| 6582451038 | Marcus Garvey | Highly controversial political activist who advocated for African Americans to set up their own shops and businesses. Later promoted the Back-to-Africa Movement that African Americans should move back to Africa, particularly Liberia. |  | 32 |
| 6582451039 | Charles Lindbergh | Became the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. He flew in a single-engine plane named "The Spirit of St. Louis." His 2600 mile trip made him a national hero and worldwide celebrity. |  | 33 |
