| A | B |
| Red Scare | fear of communism and other revolutionary ideas |
| Harlem Renaissance | African American literary movement |
| flapper | young women that were a symbol of the Jazz Age |
| bootlegging | smuggling, distilling, and illegal selling of alcohol |
| Jazz Age | era named after the strong musicl art from the 1920s |
| Scopes Trial | a high school biology teacher was arrested for teaching Darwins Theory of Evolution |
| speakeasies | bars taht operated illegally |
| Calvin Coolige | This president believed that "The business of American is business" |
| Charles Lindbergh | National hero that flew his plane from New York to Paris |
| Henry Ford | He pioneered the assembly line |
| installment buying | paying for expensive purchases in monthly payments at fairly high interest rates |
| speculation | taking business risks, such as investing in stocks |
| buying on the margin | method of buying stocks in which stockbrokers loaned investors part of the purchase price |
| 21st Amendment | repealed the ban on alcoholic beverages |
| Amalia Earhart | opened the field of aviation to more women, attempted to fly around the world |
| Jim Thorpe | Native American football player |
| Babe Ruth | homerun hitter known as the "Sultun of Swat" |
| Gertrude Ederle | first woman to swim the English Channel |
| The Jazz Singer | first talking film starring Al Jolson |
| Louis Armstrong | famous trumpet player performed its a wonderful world |
| Al Capone | notorious Chicago ganster |
| Ku Klux Klan | vowed to defend their culture against any others, not only blacks but immigrants |
| communism | government owns land and property |
| installment plans | customer makes payents over a period of time |
| assembly line | developed by Henry Ford to increase production of automobiles |
| Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929 Stock Market Crash |
| 21st Amendment | repeal of prohibition |
| Lost Generation | People in the 1920's that felt disconnected from their country and its values came to be known as |