| A | B |
|---|
| Ohio Gang | friends that Harding appointed to office who were dishonest and used their positions for corruption |
| Warren G. Harding | Senator from Ohio who was elected President in 1920. While he was honest his administration was filled with scandal. |
| James Cox | Democratic Governor of Ohio who ran for President in 1920 and lost to Harding. |
| Andrew Mellon | served as Secretary of the Treasury in the 1920s. He favored lower taxes on the wealthy that would allow money to trickle down through the economy. |
| Charles Forbes | appointed by Harding as the head of the Veterans' Bureau and used his position to steal over $200 million. |
| Harry Daugherty | served as Attorney General for Harding. He took bribes not to prosecute trusts and bootleggers. |
| Albert Fall | Harding's Secretary of the Interior who leased government oil reserves to private companies and who became the first Cabinet officer to go to jail. |
| Calvin Coolidge | became President when Harding died in 1923, he ran and was elected President in his own right in 1924. He was very pro-business and reduced the national debt by cutting spending. |
| Herbert Hoover | Secretary of Commerce for Harding and Coolidge, he was elected President in 1928 promising continued prosperity. |
| Alfred E. Smith | Democratic Governor of New York who ran for President in 1928 but lost to Hoover at least partly because he was a Catholic and opposed Prohibition. |
| Henry Ford | introduced the idea of the moving assembly line that cut production time and cost for producing the Model T. |
| Babe Ruth | baseball star who set home run records and was the most popular athlete of the 1920s. |
| Helen Wills | tennis star who won the U,S. Open seven times and Wimbeldon eight times. |
| Jim Thorpe | athlete who won gold medals at the Olympics and played professional football and baseball. He lost his medals for having accepted money to play sports before the Olympics. |
| Charles Lindbergh | first person to fly solo over the Atlantic from New York to Paris in 1927. |
| flappers | young women who rebeled against social standards in the 1920s by cutting their hair, wearing short skirts, and smoking and wearing make-up in public. |
| Al Capone | leading gangster in the 1920s in Chicago who made a fortune supplying illegal alcohol. |
| Billy Sunday | Fundamentalist preacher who was a leading evangelist of the 1920s. |
| Aimee Semple MacPherson | female evangelist of the 1920s. |
