Chapter 31

The movement of 1919-1920, spawned by fear of Bolshevik revolution, that resulted in the arrest and deportation of many political radicals

Hooded defenders of Anglo-Saxon and "Protestant" values against immigrants, Catholics, and Jews

Restrictive legislation of 1924 that reduced the number of newcomers to the United States and discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe

New constitutional provision, popular in the Midwest and South, that encouraged lawbreaking and gangsterism in big cities

Term for area of the South where traditional evangelical and Fundamentalist religion remained strong

Legal battle over teaching evolution that pitted modern science against Fundamentalist religion

New industry spawned by the mass-consumption economy that encouraged still more consumption

Henry Ford's cheap, mass produced automobile

Invented in 1903 and first used primarily for stunts and mail carrying

One of the few new consumer products of the 1920s that encouraged people to stay at home rather than pulling them away from the home and family

Feminist Margaret Sanger's cause that contributed to changing sexual behaviors, especially for women

Syncopated style of music created by blacks that attained national popularity in the 1920s

Marcus Garvey's self-help organization that proposed leading blacks to Africa

H. L. Mencken's monthly magazine that led to the literary attack on traditional moral values, the middle class, and "Puritanism"

The New York institution in which continuously rising prices and profits were fueled by speculation in the 1920s

U.S. attorney general who rounded up thousands of alleged Bolsheviks in the red scare of 1919-1920

Italian American anarchists whose trial and execution aroused widespread protest

Top gangster of the 1920s, eventually convicted of income-tax evasion

Leading American philosopher and proponent of "progressive education"

Former presidential candidate who led the fight against evolution at the 1925 Scopes trial

Mechanical genius and organizer of the mass-produced automobile industry

A leader of the advertising industry and author of a new interpretation of Christ in The Man Nobody Knows

The "Poet Laureate" of Harlem and author of The Weary Blues

Humble aviation pioneer who became a cultural hero of the 1920s

Jamaican-born leader who enhanced African American pride despite his failed migration plans

Cosmopolitan intellectual who advocated "cultural pluralism" and said America should be "not a nationality but a trans-nationality"

Baltimore writer who criticized the supposedly narrow and hypocritical values of American society

Minnesota-born writer whose novels were especially popular with young people in the 1920s

Innovative writer whose novels reflected the disillusionment of many Americans with propaganda and patriotic idealism

U. S. Treasury secretary who attempted to promote business investment by reducing taxes on the rich

The trial of a Tennessee high-school biology teacher symbolizes a national conflict over values of religion and science

Fear of the Bolshevik revolution sparks a crusade against radicals and Communists in America

A modest young man becomes a national hero by accomplishing a bold feat of aviation

Two Italian immigrants are convicted of murder and robbery, provoking charges of prejudice against the judge and jury

A new immigrant law tightens up earlier emergency restrictions and imposes discriminatory quotas against the "New Immigrants"