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| American industrialist that founded Ford motor company that created automobiles. began assembly line and mass production |
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| founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League |
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| black American writer that began jazz poetry |
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| black female author during harlem renaissance most famous for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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| American pilot famous for his flight across the atlantic ocean |
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| american author and journalist that won the Nobel Peace prize in literature in 1954. Created term "Lost Generation" |
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| American author during Jazz Age most famous for his novel The Great Gatspy |
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| Italian immigrant anarchists convicted of murder during armed robbery and sentenced to death after a controversial trial |
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| controversial trial in which a biology teacher was found guilty of violating Tennessee's Butler Act for teaching evolution however he was never convicted |
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| United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s that later became the 31st president |
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| 9 black boys accused of rape and put to a "fair trial" of an all white jury that put the boys through mass chaos and hate |
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| automobile produced by Henry Ford motor company via assembly line and mass production |
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| bribery scandal and investigation during the White House administration of United States President Warren G. Harding |
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| practice of businesses providing welfare-like services to employees. centered in companies that employed skilled laborers |
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| Purchasing a commodity over a period of time. The buyer gains the use of the commodity immediately and then pays for it in periodic payments called installments |
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| the practice of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, import, export, sale, and consumption of alcohol and alcoholic beverages |
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| feminist idea that pushed women to the limits set by a male-dominated society. most were active in suffragette movement |
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| amendment written by Alice Paul stating all people are equal regardless of race, sex, or ethnicity. proposed before Congress. Passed by both houses, but not ratified early enough to be put into effect |
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| term applied to a "new breed" of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior |
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| term given to blacks during harlem renaissance that were more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation |
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| a cultural movement of blacks that spanned the 1920s and 1930s in a Harlem Neighborhood in NY |
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| term used to refer to the generation that came of age during World War 1 |
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| most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States |
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| U.S Act that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
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| independent finance agency during reconstruction of WW1 modeled after the War Finance Corporation of World War 1 |
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