| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Suffrage | the right to vote; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment |
| Marcus Garvey | founded the UNIA, and the "Back to Africa" movement |
| Babe Ruth | Saved the Game of Baseball, 60 Home Runs in 1927 |
| Judge Kennesaw "Mountain" Landis | Banned 8 baseball players for life for betting on 1919 World Series |
| Charles Lindbergh | Instant hero, flew over Atlantic Ocean nonstop in a one man plane |
| KDKA | First Radio Station, Located in Pittsburgh |
| UNIA | Group by Marcus Garvey that seeks immigration back to Africa |
| Henry Ford | United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production |
| Tin Lizzie | nickname for the Model T |
| Al Jolson | starred in the "Jazz Singer" |
| Speakeasies | Bars served alcohol illegally |
| Bootlegging | Smuggling liquor in from other countries |
| Al Capone | famous, notorious Chicago gangster and bootlegger |
| Prohibition | in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established _________ in the US |
| NBC | First national radio network |
| Flappers | Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion |
| Harlem Renaissance | a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished |
| Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly | sat on an Atlantic City, NJ flagpole for a record 49 days |
| John Scopes | Tennessee teacher accused of teaching evolution |
| Clarence Darrow | DEFENSE in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial |
| Williams Jennings Bryan | PROSECUTION in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial |
| Butler Act | law against teaching evolution in Tennessee. |
| Clara Bow | The Britney Spears, Madonna of the 1920s; Famous Actress and Flapper. |
| Elliot Ness | FBI agent who arrested Al Capone for tax evasion |
| Charlie Chaplin | english comedy actor, film director, king of silent film comedy |
| Gretta Garbo | silent film actress from Sweden, |
| Warren G. Harding | 29th president of the U.S., influential newspaper publisher, died of a heart attack in 1923 |
| Tea Pot Dome Scandal | Bribery scandal, investigated during Harding administration. |
| Albert Fall | U.S. senator, secretary of interior. Involved in Teapot Scandal |
| Harry Sinclair | American oil industrialist; Sent to prison for using oil supplies at Teapot Dome |
| Calvin Coolidge | America's 30th President |
| Gertude Ederly | Known as "America's best girl"; Swam across the English channel |
| Red Grange | professional and college American football halfback |
| George Gershwin | American composer and pianist; spanned both popular and classical genres |
| Bobby Jones | one of the greatest golfers to compete on a national and international level |
| Johnny Weissmuller | one of the world's best swimmers; portrayed Tarzan |
| Jack Dempsey | A boxer by the nickname The Manassa Mauler |
| Gene Tunney | Became heavyweight boxing champion of the world |
| Man o' War | Considered one of the greatest thoroughbred racehorses of all time |
| The Flying Finn | Nickname originally given to several Finnish middle and long-distance runners |
| Irving Berlin | was an American composer and lyricist widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history. |
| Floyd Collins | was a celebrated pioneer caver in Central Kentucky, USA. Was known for discovering Crystal Cave. |
| H.G. Wells | was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | was a multinational treaty that prohibited the use of war as "an instrument of nation policy" |
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