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| 8775070548 | A. Philip Randolph | Led the *Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters* in response to AFL exclusion. Won significant gains for members, and joined in AA Civil Rights movements. | 0 | |
| 8775070549 | Alain Locke | One of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance, published *The New Negro* in 1925. | 1 | |
| 8775070550 | Alfred Smith | Irish Tammanyite who had been *governor in New York*. Never managed to unite his party under his nomination due to his *Catholic religion*. | 2 | |
| 8775070551 | "American Plan" | Not to be confused with the American System, this was the idea that *Unionism was subversive*, and that *no worker could be forced to join a union*. | 3 | |
| 8775070552 | Automobile | expands American horizons, allowing women to escape farm isolation, city dwellers to escape congestion, weekend drives, move to suburbs, vacations | 4 | |
| 8775070553 | Duke Ellington | Born in Chicago middle class. moved to Harlem in 1923 and began playing at the cotton club. Composer, pianist and band leader. Most influential figures in jazz. | 5 | |
| 8775070554 | H. L. Mencken | Baltimore journalist *"debunker,"* who wrote the *Smart Set and American Mercury magazines*, ridiculing politics, arts, religion, democracy, etc. | 6 | |
| 8775070555 | Harlem Renaissance | A period where *New York's black population* created a new generation of arts and intellectuals, developing a *new African American culture*. | 7 | |
| 8775070556 | Herbert Hoover | Secretary of Commerce under Coolidge. Believed in *"Associationalism,"* in which *businessmen work together* to promote stability and efficiency. | 8 | |
| 8775070557 | Issei | Term for *Japanese immigrants*. Managed to become successful in small business and as truck farmers. | 9 | |
| 8775070558 | 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 | 10 | |
| 8775070559 | Ku Klux Klan | Had its rebirth in 1915, when *nativist passions* resurfaced. Functioned on the basis of defending *"traditional values."* | 11 | |
| 8775070560 | Langston Hughes | *African American poet* who captured the spirit of the *Harlem Renaissance.* "I am Negro - and beautiful". | 12 | |
| 8775070561 | Lost Generation | The people that lived though WWI, and became lost in the materialistic *world they saw as meaningless*. Led lives of personal fulfillment. | 13 | |
| 8775070562 | Margaret Sanger | Began the *birth control movement*, believed that large families were among the causes of poverty and distress in poor communities. Then convinced middle class. | 14 | |
| 8775070563 | National Origins Act of 1924 | *Banned immigration from Asia*, and *limited European immigration* from 3 to 2 percent of the *1890 census*, in which there were much fewer immigrants. | 15 | |
| 8775070564 | Nisei | Term given to *children of Japanese immigrants* born in America. | 16 | |
| 8775070565 | Parity | The complicated formula to raise prices to *help farmers* at least meet production costs, despite fluctuation markets. Federal *purchase of crops*. | 17 | |
| 8775070566 | Scopes "Monkey Trial" | A court trial in Tennessee involving the *evolution-creationism controversy*. Bryans tricked into admitting that the Bible could be open to interpretation. | 18 | |
| 8775070567 | Sinclair Lewis | American novelist who *attacked aspects of modern society*, including *Main Street* (1922) and *Babbitt* (1922). Received the Noble Prize in literature. | 19 | |
| 8775070568 | Teapot Dome | Scandal in which Albert Fall of Harding's cabinet gave *private leases to oil fields to wealthy men*. Convicted a bribery and a year of jail. | 20 | |
| 8775070569 | The Jazz Singer | *First movie with sound* ("talkie") featuring Al jolson. Premiered in 1927. | 21 | |
| 8775070570 | Welfare Capitalism | An approach to workers relations where *employers gave more benefits* to workers to *prevent strikes and labor unrest*. | 22 |
