| A | B |
|---|
| Mitchell Palmer | Attorney General that had an excess of zeal in rounding up red scare suspects. |
| Al Capone | "Scarface"; booze distributor in Chicago; Was one of the best known racketeers; Cops were unable to pin anything on Capone, except income tax evation; Served an eleven-year sentence. |
| John Dewey | On Columbia University staff from 1904 to 1930; Set forth the principle of learning by doing, repetition will make you remember, etc.; Revolutionized education beliefs and ideas. |
| John T. Scopes | Teacher who was indicted for teaching evolution; was defended by William Jennings Bryan when taken to court; Scopes was found guilty and fined 100 dollars. |
| William Jennings Bryan | Was defense in case against Scopes dealing with evolution |
| Clarence Darrow | Defended Scopes in the evolution case. |
| Andrew Mellon | Treasury Secreatry, whose tax policies favored the rapid expansion of capital investment. |
| Bruce Barton | Founded the advertisement agencies; wrote A Man Nobody Knows, stating that JC was teh greatest ad man of all time. |
| Henry Ford | Created the Model T, the first middle class car and also the interchangeable parts and assembly liine. |
| Frederick W. Taylor | Brought about stopwatch efficiency techniques. |
| Charles Lindbergh | The Flying Fool; Flew the Spirit of Saint Louis from New York to Paris. |
| Margaret Sanger | Openly championed the use of contraceptives; Started a birth-control movement. |
| Sigmund Freud | Came up with the idea of Id, Superego, and Ego; Many ideas focused on sex; Sexual gratification and liberation allowed good health and a lack of stress. |
| H.L. Menken | "Bad Boy of Baltimore;" wrote American Mercury; wrote on the American society. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Lost Generation writer; Wrote The Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby |
| Ernest Hemingway | Lost Generation writer; Wrote The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms |
| Sinclair Lewis | Lost Generation writer; Wrote Main Street |
| William Faulkner | Lost Generation writer; Wrote Soldiers' Pay, The Sound of the Fury, and As I Lay Dying |
| Nativist | Anti-foreigners |
| Red Scare | 1919-1920; resulted from a nationwide crusade against left-wingers whose Americanism was suspect. |
| Sacco & Vanzetti case | Anti-foreigner belief were high at the time and these two men being Italian, atheists, anarchists and draft dodgers were unjustly convicted of murder, of a paymaster and a guard. Men became martyrs for the liberal, communist, and socialist belief. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A pro-Anglo Saxon, pro-Protestant, pro "native" group; against all other races and many other beliefs. |
| Emergency Quota Act | Quota on newcomers from Europe, allowed the amount of three percent of nationality in America in 1910. |
| Immigration Quota Act | Same as Emergency Quota Act, but now only 2 percent; Canadians and Latin Americans were exempt, while Japanese people were not allowed in at all. |
| Volstead Act | Combined with the 18th Amendment, these two documents made the world as safe place for hypocrisy regarding the distribution and sale of alcohol. |
| Fundamentalism | Literal meaning of the Bible was fundamentalist belief; believed in the modern science discoveries. |
| "Flappers" | Women who appeared with hemlines elevated, stockings rolled, breasts taped flat, cheeks rouged, and lips that held a dangling cigarette. Women of a new age of dress and independence. |
| Progressive education | Education with a greater permissiveness. |
| Buying on margin | Buying stocks and securities on a small down payment. |
