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| Test of the Tennessee law which forbade the teaching of evolution in public schools. |
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| Italian anarchist whose execution in 1927 for a Massachusetts murder became an international scandal. |
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| Piloted the "Spirit of St. Louis" on the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| Author of "This Side of Paradise" and spokesman for the Lost Generation. |
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| One of the most popular silent film stars of the 1920s. |
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| Principal defense attorney during John Scopes 1925 trial |
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| 1928 Democratic presidential candidate who was the first Roman Catholic candidate of a major party. |
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| 1928 agreement in which 62 nations renounced the use of war. |
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| Star of "The Jazz Singer," the first talkie. |
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| Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. |
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| Minister of LA’s Angelus Temple who was billed as “the world’s most pulchritudinous evangelist.” |
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| Hardings 1920 campaign slogan, reflecting the desire of many Americans to return to the "simplicity" of the pre-war world. |
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| Secretary of Commerce during the Harding and Coolidge administrations who promoted a progressive brand of capitalism known as “associationalism.” |
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| Author of "Main Street" and "Babbitt," he was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. |
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| National Orgins Act of 1921 |
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| Capped all immigration into the United States at 350,000 per year, with numbers of each ethnic group determined by a percentage of their numbers in the 1910 census. |
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| Universal Negro Improvement Association |
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| Organized by Marcus Garvey to restore black pride, this was the first African American mass movement. |
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| Ratification and implementation of the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, transportation, or importation of alcoholic beverages. |
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| Secretary of the Interior who was the first cabinet member to be convicted of a felony committed while in office. |
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| 1920s explosion of African American literary, musical, and artistic accomplishment. |
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| One who leaves the country of one’s birth or citizenship to live in another, often out of a sense of alienation. |
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| The most spectacular scandal of the Harding Administration. |
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| Reform governor of New York and the first Catholic candidate for the presidency. |
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| Movie producer who glorified the KKK in his 1915 film Birth of a Nation. |
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| Attacked the American obsession with material success in his 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby." |
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| Advertiser who described Jesus Christ as a “super salesman” in his best-selling book, "The Man Nobody Knows." |
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| American-born children of Japanese immigrants. |
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| Pioneered welfare capitalism in calling for a shortened workweek and higher wages. |
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| Captured the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance in his sentence “I am a Negro – and beautiful.” |
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| Tennessee biology teacher who was convicted in 1925 of teaching evolution. |
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| Infamous Baltimore journalist who delighted in ridiculing religion, politics, the arts and even democracy. |
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