| A | B |
| The Great Migration | African Americans moving from the rural South to the urban North |
| Klu Klux Klan | group who used acts of violence including lynching against African Americans |
| aviation | meaning flight, as in airplanes |
| Prohibition | time period where buying and selling alchohol is illegal |
| bathtub gin | homemade alchohol |
| speakeasy | an illegal bar or club where one could drink alchohol |
| 18th Amendment | law that made buying, selling, and making alchohol illegal |
| Temperance Movement | group of people who wanted alchohol illegal in the U.S. |
| organized crime | grew strong during Prohibition |
| flappers | women who were fashionable and modern |
| electrification | making everyone have access to electricity |
| Wright Brothers | invented motorized airplane |
| Guglielmo Marconi | invented the radio |
| David Sarnoff | started the broadcast industry |
| jobs created by improvement in transportation | road construction, steel, oil, automobile |
| entertainment | moving pictures industry, radio industry |
| John Steinbeck | writer of the "Grapes of Wrath" |
| George Gershwin | composer of broadway music |
| 19th Amendment | allowed women the right to vote |
| labor saving products | washing machine, electric stove |
| Harlem Rennaissance | growth of African American culture in New York |
| Georgia O'Keefe | painter of urban scenes and the Southwest |
| Louis Armstrong | famous African American trumpet player |
| Bessie Smith | famous African American blues singer |
| Duke Ellington | Jazz pianist |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | novelist who wrote about the 1920s |
| Aaron Copeland | classical musician who used jazz in his music |
| Charles Lindberg | flew an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean alone |
| road construction, oil, steel production | industries that benefited from the automobile industry |