| A | B |
|---|
| Red Scare | Panic about liberal radicalists and communists. Great for conservative business people. |
| Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer | "Fighting Quaker" rounded up commies during Red Scare |
| KKK | Pro-AngloSaxon, pro- "native" American, Pro-Protestant and anti everything else. Against modernization of America |
| Immigration Act of 1924 | Replaced the Emergency Quota Act of 1921. 2% of European nationality could come. No Japanese. Caused America to sacrifice something of its tradition of freedom and opportunity as well as future ethnic diversity |
| "Judicial lynching" | anti-red and anti-foreign case. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti electricuted after being convicted of murder |
| Emergency Quota Act of 1921 | 3% of European nationality could come. Later replaced by Immigration Act of 1924 |
| "Cultural Pluralists" | group against the Immigrant restriction rules. Horace Kallen and Randolph Boune advocated this idealism. |
| Horace Kallen | Defended newcomers' right to practice their ancestral customs. Thought that US should provide a protective canopy for ethnic and racial groups to preserve their cultural uniqueness. Pluralism |
| Randolph Bourne | Advocated greater cross-fertilization among immigrants. US should serve as vanguard of more international and multicultural age Cosmopolitanism |
| 18th Amendment - Volstead Act | Prohibition. South liked the law. Legislatures voted dry but remained wet behind closed doors. Not properly enforced. Home brew and bathtub gin was popular. Bank savings increased and absenteeism in industry decreased. Brought about Gangs. |
| Bible Belt | South. Supported KKK. Believed prophecies of the bible as opposed to Evolutionism |
| "Scarface" 1925 | Al Capone - murderous booze distributer. St. Valentine's Day Massacre 1929. Gangster, caught for tax evasion. |
| Charles A. Lindbergh | Flew solo west to east. gave a boost to the infant aviattion industry. 1932 A gang kidnapped and murdered his infant son. Resulted in the Lindbergh Law which makes interstate abductions a death penalty offense. |
| Lindbergh Law | Making interstate abductions a death-penalty offense |
| Professor John Dewey | Columbia University professor. Learning by doing and progressive education and education for life advocate. |
| Progressive Education | Education for Life and learning by doing |
| Scopes Trial 1925 | "Monkey Trial". John T. Scopes indicted for teaching evolution. Defended by Darrow. William Jennings Bryan was a presbyterian Fundamentalist was made to appear foolish. Evolutionism vs. Creationism |
| Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon | His tax policies that favored rapid expansion of capital investment. Made tax reductions to help the rich. This shifted the tax burden over the the middle class. |
| Bruce Barton | founder of advertising. Advocated a Jesus-style advertising. |
| Buying On Credit | Possess today play tomorrow |
| Frederick W. Taylor | Father of Scientific Management |
| Henry Ford | Created the Model T. Developed infant auto industry |
| Model T | Type of original gas-powered car. |
| Orville and Wilbur | 1903 flew a plane |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | convicted of murdering a Massachusett's paymaster and his guard. Death by electricution |
| Marcus Garvey | Founder of United Negro Improvement Association. Promoted resettlement of American blacks in their own "African homeland". Most of his enterprises failed. Convicted of mail fraud and was deported. His example inspired blacks to gain self-confidence. Important to the later founding of Nation of Islam (Black Muslim) movement |
| The Great Gatsby | written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Captured society of the "Jazz Age" mix of glamor and cruelty |
| Nativist | American born |
| Margaret Sanger | Birth control movement starter |
| Sigmund Freud | Viennese physician. claimed sexual repression was fault for society's ills. Pleasure and health demanded sexual gratification. |
| The Birth of a Nation | silent film directed by D.W. Griffith seemed to glorify KKK in Reconstruction Era |
| Fundamentalists | Creationism beleivers. Lost ground to modernists who liked to think God was a good guy and the Universe a pretty chummy place |
| Alice Paul | National Woman's party 1923. Campaigned for Equal Rights Amendment to Constitution |
| Flappers | independent women |
| Bureau of Budget | Bureau's Director assists president in preparing careful estimates of receipts and expenditures for submission to Congress. Made to prevent extravegant appropriations. |
