Topic 9: Personalities
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dempschild33 on March 22, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Henry Ford | had a vision for automobiles for the average Americans. Created the Model A to compete with the Model T |
| Bruce Barton | The Man Nobody Knows. Compared Jesus Christ to the businessmen of the 1920's and portrayed him as the greatest salesman in history whose rivals (chief priests) tried to destroy him but in the end was trampled over |
| Margaret Sanger | Lost Generation. Leader of the birth control movement. Jailed for operating a birth control clinic in NYC. In 1920's she openly advocated smaller families through birth control. |
| H. L. Menken | Lost Generation. Part of the Scopes trial. Took great delight in mocking those who opposed the Darwin theory. Satirist for the Baltimore Sun. Called rural Americans hicks and attacked environmentalists. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Lost Generation. Great Gatsby attacked America's obsession with wealth in the 1920's. |
| Langston Hughes | Lost Generation. Poet of Harlem Renaissance. |
| Ernest Hemingway | Wrote of the disillusionment of intellectuals with the rusult of WWI in his book Farewell to Arms. |
| John T. Scopes | Tried for violating the Butler Act in Tennessee |
| Warren G. Harding | Gambler and drunk. Passed the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921/ Teapot Dome Scandal. |
| John W. Davis | Democrat nominee for the election of 1914 |
| Herbert Hoover | Republican nominee for the election of 1928. Prohibition and Protestant |
| Al Smith | Ran against Hoover in the election of 1928. Anti-Prohibition and Catholic. |
| Andrew Mellon | part of Coolidge's administration. Pro business politics. Secretary of state and proposed the "trickle down economics" |
| Clarence Darrow | most famous lawyer that defended Scopes. |
| William J. Bryan | helped the prosecution in the Scopes Trial |
| Albert Fall | Secretary of Interior who was convicted and sent to prison for his involvement in the Teapot Scandal |
| Robert LaFollette | Progressive nominee for the presidential election of 1924/ Senator from Wisconsin |
| John W. Davis | Republican Nominee for the presidential election of 1924 / corporate lawyer |
| Alice Paul | Leader of the National Women's Party |
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