People
He revolutionized the automobile industry with his treatment of workers and use of the assembly line.
Henry Ford
A ______ is a person who sells illegal alcohol.
bootlegger
The belief that certain nations & races were superior to others and destined to rule over them was called-
Social Darwinism
A _________ nation is a country which is owed more money by other countries than it owes other countries.
creditor
An organization that promotes hatred & discrimination against specific ethnic, racial, and religious groups.
KKK
He was an American lawyer who became famous in the early 20th century for his involvement in the Leopold & Loeb murder trial. He defended John Scopes in the trial about teaching evolution.
Clarence Darrow
The US Secretary of Interior was forced to resign in disgrace after secretly leasing oil rights on public land.
Teapot Dome
Secretary of the Interior who was the architect of the Teapot Dome scandal.
Albert Fall
The ______system was an arrangement that limited the numbers of immigrants that could enter the US from specific countries.
quota
This word refers to a theory advocating minimal gov’t interference in the economy; means “leave it alone”
laissez-faire
This is a word for a period of rising stock prices
bull market
The _______ Race Riots took place on May 31-June 1, 1921 & involved mobs of white residents attacking black residents and businesses of this city; probably the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.
Tulsa
A firm believer in a literal interpretation of the Bible, _______ led the prosecution of Scopes, who was accused of teaching evolution.
William Jennings Bryan
A corrupt US official sold scarce medical supplies from veteran’s hospitals for his own gain.
Forbes Scandal
He was a popular president whose administration was beset by scandals that undermined American confidence in the federal gov’t.
Warren Harding
This is an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one.
suburbs
This is an approach to improving efficiency in which experts looked at every step of a manufacturing process, trying to find ways to reduce time, effort, & expense.
scientific management
Buying on ______________ is a system of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest.
margin
This is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed to advance justice for African Americans.
NAACP
Italian immigrants wrongfully convicted of murder & executed in 1927.
Sacco & Vanzetti
The nickname for the 1925 trial of a Tennessee schoolteacher for breaking a law that forbade teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Scopes “Monkey” Trial
US president who aligned himself with big business.
Calvin Coolidge
The ______ movement stressed strict adherence to a set of basic religious principles.
fundamentalism
The flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after WWI was called the _____.
consumer revolution
This is the agreement in which the US loaned money to Germany so that they could make reparation payments to England & France who could then pay the US back their war debt
Dawes Plan
A group that got together as a response to the Palmer Raids to protect Americans’ rights by becoming involved in important court cases.
ACLU
U.S. attorney general whose highly publicized campaigns against suspected radicals touched off the so-called Red Scare of 1919–20.
A. Mitchell Palmer
The nickname for the period of US history where the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol was banned.
Prohibition
Secretary of Commerce who worked with business & labor leaders to achieve voluntary advancements.
Herbert Hoover
______ was the idea that the human race can be improved by controlling which people have children.
eugenics
This is the creation of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery & assembly lines.
mass production
Name any 2 of the 3 economic goals set by Andrew Mellon
The mission of this group is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.
ADL
Secretary of the Treasury who reformed US tax structure by lowering marginal tax rates for individuals & businesses
Andrew Mellon
This was a 1920s wave of widespread fear of suspected communists thought to be plotting revolution within the US.
Red Scare