| A | B |
|---|
| Roaring Twenties | a time of great social change |
| Radical Bolsheviks | Communists who took over Russia |
| American fear | anarchy and revolution |
| Communist agitators | rioters |
| Chicago | the worst race riot |
| The National Origins Act of 1924 | set up quotas for immigration |
| xenophobia | fear of foreigners |
| Red Scare | Communists, Bolsheviks, anarchists were blammed for unrest |
| Reactionists | led by university presidents and New Englanders attempted to restrict immigration based on racial prejudicds |
| 1920 Bombing climax | a huge explosion on Wall St. eight killed, hundreds injured |
| scapegoats | executed for a crime they did not commit |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | Italien imigrants who believed in the philosophy of anarchy |
| Ku Klux Klan | blamed blacks, foriegners, Jews, and Catholics for lack of jobs |
| 18th Ammendment | prohibition |
| prohibition | trade in liquor |
| 19th Ammendment | women granted right to vote |
| Presidential Election of 1920 | "A Return to Normalcy" |
| Warren G. Harding | a conservative who drastically reduced spending and taxes |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Secretary of the Interior took kickbacks for government land leases |
| Ohio Gang | Warren Harding's close friends and advisors who were incompetent and corrupt |
| Warren G. Harding | worst president in US history |
| Calvin Coolidge | succeeds Harding after his death |
| Calvin Coolidge | "hands-off" president |
| Herbert Hoover | succeeded Coolidge |
| Herbert Hoover | led country into the Great Depression |
| national culture | influenced by movies, literature, radio, the automoblie, railroad, sports |
| mass culture | unifying American culture |
| movie stars | Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino |
| athletes | Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey |
| authors | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| musicians | Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and George Gershwin |
| Jazz Age | through the radio popular music industry boomed |
| Lucky Lindy | Charles Lindbergh |
| Charles Lindbergh | the first person to fly over the Atlantic Ocean |
| Lost Generation | American writers disillusioned with the U.S. |
| writers | Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, E.E. Cummings, F Scott Fitzgerald |
| Harlem Reniassance | black poets, novelists, musicians, and Langston Hughes flourished |
| great movement of Americans to cities | led to a revolution in social values |
| Scope Monkey Trial | an example of a revolution of social values |
| William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow | tried the case against state law to teach anything contrary to the Bible |
