1914-1929
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| show | Alexander Mitchell Palmer was an American attorney and politician who served as the 50th United States attorney general from 1919 to 1921. He is best known for overseeing the Palmer Raids during the Red Scare of 1919–20.
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| show | A case in which the court struck down a DC minimum wage law as violating the "freedom contract" right within the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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| show | Nickname for the troops of General John Pershing's American Expeditionary Forces, who traversed the Atlantic to join war weary Allied armies fighting on the Western Front in World War I. American Expeditionary Forces
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| show | American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931. Bootlegger.
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| show | Albert Bacon Fall was a United States senator from New Mexico and Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding who became infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal; he was the only person convicted as a result of the affair.
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| Alfred Smith | show 🗑
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| show | Coalition of countries that opposed the Axis powers (led by Germany, Italy, and Japan) during World War II.
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| Amelia Earhart | show 🗑
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| show | One of the major figures in the industrial and financial development of the Trans-Allegheny region,
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| Arabic Pledge | show 🗑
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| Armistice Day | show 🗑
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| show | American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935.
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| show | United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled the 1919 Child Labor Tax Law unconstitutional as an improper attempt by Congress to penalize employers using child labor.
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| Bernard Baruch | show 🗑
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| show | Senior American United States Army officer. He served most famously as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I from 1917 to 1920.
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| show | The illegal manufacture, distribution, or sale of goods, especially alcohol or recordings.
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| show | A market in which share prices are rising, encouraging buying.
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| show | He signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which granted U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans, and oversaw a period of rapid and expansive economic growth known as the "Roaring Twenties", leaving office with considerable popularity.
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| show | The Central Powers, also known as the Central Empires, were one of the two main coalitions that fought in World War I. It consisted of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria; this was also known as the Quadruple Alliance.
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| Charles Lindbergh | show 🗑
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| show | American lawyer who became famous in the 19th century for high profile representations of trade union causes, and in the 20th century for several criminal matters, the Scopes "monkey" trial, and the Ossian Sweet defense.
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| show | The Dawes Plan temporarily resolved the issue of the reparations that Germany owed to the Allies of World War I.
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| Duke Ellington | show 🗑
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| show | E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He was an ambulance driver during World War I and was in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his novel The Enormous Room.
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| Election of 1920 | show 🗑
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| Emergency Immigration Quota Act, 1921 (Johnson Act) | show 🗑
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| show | American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image.
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| Espionage and Sedition Acts | show 🗑
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| Ethnic Self-Determination | show 🗑
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| show | American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
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| Ezra Pound | show 🗑
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| show | American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. Gatsby
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| Five Power Treaty | show 🗑
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| Flappers | show 🗑
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| Food Administration Board (FDA) | show 🗑
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| Fordney McCumber Tariff | show 🗑
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| Four Power Treaty | show 🗑
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| show | The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I, proposed by Woodrow Wilson.
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| Frank Lloyd Wright | show 🗑
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| Franz Ferdinand | show 🗑
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| Fuel Administration Board | show 🗑
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| show | Form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
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| George Creel Committee (CPI) | show 🗑
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| "Good Neighborism" | show 🗑
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| show | Established that Congress cannot enact laws that attempt to impose production regulations on the states. Congress did not have the authority to establish regulations for states regarding the employment of children because of state sovereignty.
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| show | Intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920's and 1930's.
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| show | Founded Sinclair Oil Corporation.
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| Henry Cabot Lodge | show 🗑
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| Henry Ford | show 🗑
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| Herbert Hoover | show 🗑
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| HL Mencken | show 🗑
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| Installment Plans | show 🗑
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| show | Were bitter opponents of the Treaty of Versailles in the United States in 1919.
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| "The Jazz Singer", 1927 | show 🗑
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| show | American politician, women's rights advocate became the first women to hold federal office in the US. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 for one term, then was elected again in 1940. Opposed the Vietnam War.
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| show | Violent secret fraternal society founded in 1915 in Georgia to maintain white Protestant cultural and political power.
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| Kellogg Braind Pact | show 🗑
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| Langston Hughes | show 🗑
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| show | Required each participating nation to “respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all Members.”
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| show | Debt obligation issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in conjunction with the Federal Reserve.
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| show | 1866, it was the third and final in a series of conferences that led to Canadian Confederation in 1867.
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| Louis Armstrong | show 🗑
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| show | Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.
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| show | RMS Lusitania was an ocean liner that was launched by the Cunard Line in 1906 and held the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908.
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| "The Man Nobody Knows" | show 🗑
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| show | Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), primarily in the United States, organization founded by Marcus Garvey, dedicated to racial pride, economic self-sufficiency, and the formation of an independent Black nation in Africa.
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| show | A major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front.
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| National Origins Act, 1924 | show 🗑
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| Nine Power Treaty | show 🗑
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| show | Prohibition, or the “noble experiment,” was a nationwide ban that prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol.
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| October Appeal | show 🗑
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| Ohio Gang | show 🗑
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| show | American composer famous for his World War I songs: "Over There" and "You're A Grand Ole Flag". Pride and Nationalism.
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| Red Scare | show 🗑
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| Reparations | show 🗑
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| Reservationists | show 🗑
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| show | 1920's San Francisco poet who wrote hauntingly about his adopted New England.
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| Russian Revolution | show 🗑
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| Sacco-Vanzetti Trial | show 🗑
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| show | A 1919 decision upholding the conviction of a socialist who had urged young men to resist the draft during World War I.
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| show | John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, American legal case July 1925 a substitute high school teacher, Scopes, accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, made unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
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| show | This 1917 law provided for the registration of all American men between the ages of 21 and 30 for a military draft.
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| show | Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis.
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| Sinclair Lewis | show 🗑
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| Solemn referendum | show 🗑
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| show | An illegal bar where drinks were sold, during the time of prohibition.
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| Stimson Doctrine | show 🗑
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| Sussex Pledge | show 🗑
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| show | Bribery incident which took place in the United States in 1922-1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.
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| Treaty of Versailles | show 🗑
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| show | A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.
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| TS Elliot | show 🗑
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| show | A policy that the Germans announced on January 1917 which stated that their submarines would sink any ship in the British waters.
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| show | An agency of the federal government created to provide a loan guaranty program which enables.
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| show | (1919) A federal act enforcing the eighteenth amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
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| War Industries Board | show 🗑
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| Warren Harding | show 🗑
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| show | 1921-1922 was a meeting between most major world powers.
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| William Faulkner | show 🗑
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| show | The Democratic representative in the presidential elections of 1912 and 1916.
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| World Court | show 🗑
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| Wright Brothers | show 🗑
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| show | The Young Plan was a program for settlement of German reparations debts after World War I written in 1929 and formally adopted in 1930.
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| Zimmerman Note | show 🗑
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| Zora Neale Hurston | show 🗑
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