Assignment 34 Identify and state the historical significance of the following: 1. A. Mitchell Palme a.

The attorney general of the U.S. from 1919 to 1921 who directed the controversial Palmer Raids 2. Al Capone a. An Italian-American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate 3. John Dewey a. An American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform John T. Scopes 4. William Jennings Bryan a. An American politician who kept on pushing for the Silver standard and did not seem to realize he needs to stop getting involved in politics. 5. Clarence Darrow a. An American lawyer who defended John T. Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trail and opposed William Bryan 6. Andrew Mellon a. An American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932 7. Bruce Barton a. An American author, ad executive, and politician who served in the U.S Congress 8. Henry Ford a. Founder of the Ford Motor Company and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production 9. Frederick W. Taylor a. An mechanical engineer who improved industrial efficiency and influenced the progressive era 10. Charles Lindbergh a. an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist who opposed the U.S.s involvement in World War II 11. Margaret Sanger a. Inventor of birth control pills 12. Sigmund Freud a. Freud provided the basis for the entire field of individual verbal psychotherapy 13. H.L. Mencken a. American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture 14. F. Scott Fitzgerald a. American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the example writings of the Jazz Age 15. Ernest Hemingway a. American author and journalist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 16. Sinclair Lewis a. the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." 17. William Faulkner a. US novelist and short story writer, whose work usually portrayed the problems of the southern U.S. Define and state the historical significance of the following: 1. Nativist a. People who supported the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. 2. Progressive education a. the principles and practices of progressives 3. Buying on margin a. Buying securities with cash borrowed from abroker, using other securities as collateral. This has the effect of magnifying any profit or loss made on the securities Describe and state the historical significance of the following: 1. Red Scare a. Ambivalent atmosphere in the U.S. due to the fear of communists

2. Sacco and Vanzetti Case

a. It proposed a series of changes designed to appeal to both sides of the political divide, including restrictions on the number and timing of appeals
3. Ku Klux Klan a. Group of racist whites who kill colored people out of pure hatred 4. Emergency Quota Act a. Added the numerical limits on immigration from Europe and the use of a quota system for establishing those limits 5. Immigration Quota Act

a. Limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890
6. Volstead Act

a. the enabling legislation for the 18th Amendment which established prohibition in the United States
7. Fundamentalism

a. the demand for a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology
8. Modernists a. Those who supported modern thought, character, or practice 9. Flappers

a. a term applied to a "new breed" of young Western women who wore short skirts and exhibit their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior
10. Florida land boom

a. Florida's first real estate bubble, which burst in 1925, leaving behind entire new cities and the remains of failed development projects
Assignment 35 Identify and state the historical significance of the following: 1. Warren G. Harding a. The 29th president of the United States 2. Charles Evans Hughes

a. An American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York

3. Andrew Mellon a. An American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932 4. Herbert Hoover a. The 31st president of the United States 5. Albert B. Fall

a. a United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal
6. Harry M. Daugherty

a. a Republican Party boss and member of the Ohio Gang

7. Charles R. Forbes

a. Appointed the first Director of the Veterans' Bureau by President Warren G. Harding
8. John W. Davis

a. An American politician, diplomat and lawyer who served as a U.S. Representative from West Virginia
9. Robert La Follette

a. ran for President of the U.S. as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in 1924, carrying Wisconsin and 17% of the national popular vote
10. Alfred E. Smith

a. the foremost urban leader of the efficiency-oriented Progressive Movement, and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s
Define and state the historical significance of the following: 1. Ohio Gang

a. a group of politicians and industry leaders who came to be associated with Warren G. Harding

2. Agricultural Marketing Act

a. established the Federal Farm Board with a revolving fund of half a billion dollars
3. Washington Conference

a. a World War II strategic meeting from May 12 to May 27, 1943, between the heads of government of the UK and the U.S.
4. Muscle Shoals Bill

a. To build a dam at the Tennessee River and sell government-produced electricity in competition with citizens in private companies
5. McNary-Haugen Bill

a. A highly controversial plan in the 1920s to subsidize American agriculture by raising the domestic prices of farm products
6. Hoover-Stimson doctrine

a. a policy of the U.S. federal government, enunciated in a note, to Japan and China, of non-recognition of international territorial changes that were executed by force
7. Dawes Plan

a. an attempt in 1924, following World War I for the Triple Entente to collect war reparations debt from Germany
8. American League

a. one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada
9. Black Friday

a. a force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffered heavy casualties during an unsuccessful attack on German destroyer and escorting vessels
10. Fordney-McCumber Act

a. raised American tariffs in order to protect factories and farms

11. Bonus Army

a. assemblage of some 43,000 veterans, their families, and affiliated groups, who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates
12. Reconstruction Finance Corporation

a. gave $2 billion in aid to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses
13. Trade Associations

a. an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry

14. Hawley-Smoot Tariff

a. raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels

15. Kellogg-Briand Pact

a. Renounced war, prohibiting the use of war as "an instrument of national policy
16. Teapot Dome Scandal

a. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome and two other locations to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding
17. Farm Block

a. a term given to farmers who organized into a political group speaking for the family farmer