Roaring 20s

• Bolsheviks


  Members of the Russian Social Democratic Party who seized power in the October Revolution of 1917.
• Flappers


  Young women in the 1920s who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting, embracing new fashions and attitudes.
• Suffragettes


  Women who advocated for the right to vote through organized protest and demonstration.
• Harlem Renaissance


  A cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
• Nativism


  A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones, often leading to discriminatory actions against immigrants.
• Red Scare


  A period of anti-communist hysteria in the United States, characterized by the fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism.
• Communism


  A political and economic ideology advocating for a classless society where the means of production are owned and controlled by the community as a whole.
• KKK

  The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist hate group known for its history of violence against African Americans and other minority groups.
• Scopes Monkey trial


  A highly publicized trial in 1925, challenging a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools.
• Normalcy


  A term used by President Warren G. Harding to describe a return to the way of life before World War I, emphasizing stability and conservatism.
• Teapot Dome Scandal


  A bribery scandal during the presidency of Warren G. Harding, involving the leasing of federal oil reserves to private companies in exchange for financial kickbacks.
• A Mitchell Palmer


  The United States Attorney General known for his involvement in the Red Scare and his aggressive campaign to arrest and deport suspected radicals and anarchists.
• Charles Lindbergh


  An American aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, becoming an instant celebrity.
• Clarence Darrow


  A renowned American lawyer, best known for defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes Monkey trial and for his stance against the death penalty.
• Margret Sanger


  An American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse who popularized the term 'birth control' and opened the first birth control clinic in the United States.
• Henry Ford


  An American industrialist and the founder of the Ford Motor Company, known for introducing assembly line production and making the automobile affordable for the middle class.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald

  An American novelist and short story writer, famous for his depiction of the Jazz Age in his works, particularly 'The Great Gatsby.
• Fundamentalism


  A movement in American Protestantism that arose in the early 20th century, emphasizing the literal interpretation of the Bible and the rejection of modernist ideas.
• Sacco and Vanzetti Case


  A controversial legal case in the 1920s, involving the trial and execution of two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, accused of robbery and murder.
• Volstead Act


  The National Prohibition Act, which provided the enforcement of the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
• Sinclair Lewis


  An American novelist and playwright, known for his critical views on American society and for being the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• William Jennings Bryant


  A prominent American orator and politician, known for his populist and anti-imperialist views, as well as his role in the Scopes Monkey trial.
• Sigmund Freud

  An Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, known for his theories on the unconscious mind, the Oedipus complex, and the role of dreams in mental health.
• Frederick W. Taylor


  An American mechanical engineer, known as the father of scientific management, advocating for the application of scientific methods to improve efficiency in industrial production.
• Immigration Quota Act


  A United States federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890.
• Prohibition


  The nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933.
• Al Capone


  An American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit.
• Ohio Gang


  A group of politicians and industry leaders surrounding Warren G. Harding, known for their involvement in corruption and scandals during his presidency.