| Clarence Darrow | @@Defense lawyer@@ | A famed criminal defense lawyer for Scopes, who supported evolution. He caused William Jennings Bryan to appear foolish when Darrow questioned Bryan about the Bible. |
| Eugene O’Neill | ^^Playwriter^^ | Expressed disillusionment with the ideals of an earlier time and with the materialism of a business-oriented culture. |
| James Weldon Johnson | ^^Harlem poet^^ | Commented on African American heritage, their poems expressed a range of emotions. |
| George Gershwin | ^^Jewish immigrant/musician^^ | He blended jazz and and classical music. |
| Alfred E Smith | @@Politician@@ | Democratic opponent to Herbert Hoover, the governor of NY. |
| Sinclair Lewis | ^^Novelist^^ | Expressed disillusionment with the ideals of an earlier time and with the materialism of a business-oriented culture. |
| Grant Wood | ^^Artist^^ | Painted pictures of west |
| Edward Hopper | ^^Artist^^ | Inspired by the architecture of American cities to explore loneliness and isolation of urban life. |
| Duke Ellington | ^^Musician^^ | African American jazz musician |
| Charles Evens Hughes | @@Politician@@ | Harding appointed him (the former presidential candidate and supreme court justice) to be the secretary of state |
| TS Eliot | ^^Poet^^ | Expressed disillusionment with the ideals of an earlier time and with the materialism of a business-oriented culture. Expressed their unhappiness by moving into exile in Europe. |
| Marcus Garvey | @@Politician@@ | Jamaican political leader who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. Advocated for individual and racial pride for African Americans and developed political ideas of Black nationalism. |
| Andrew Mellon | @@Politician@@ | A Pittsburgh industrialist and millionaire who was the secretary of the treasury. |
| Countee Cullen | ^^Poet^^ | Commented on African American heritage, their poems expressed a range of emotions. |
| Erza Pound | ^^Poet^^ | Expressed disillusionment with the ideals of an earlier time and with the materialism of a business-oriented culture. |
| Margaret Sanger | ^^Women’s rights^^ | Advocated for birth control, achieved growing acceptance in the 1920s. |
| Louis Armstrong | ^^Musician^^ | African American jazz musician. |
| Langston Huges | ^^Poet^^ | Commented on African American heritage, their poems expressed a range of emotions. |
| Harry M Daugherty | @@Politician@@ | Secretary of the interior |
| Albert B Fall | @@Politician@@ | Attorney General |
| Sigmund Freud | Psychiatrist | A psychiatrist who stressed the role of sexual repression in mental illness. |
| Herbert Hoover | @@Politician@@ | Coolidge didn’t run for a second term, republicans turned to self-made millionaire and the secretary of commerce. |
| Claude McKay | ^^Poet^^ | Commented on African American heritage, their poems expressed a range of emotions. |
| Ernest Hemingway | ^^Novelist^^ | Expressed disillusionment with the ideals of an earlier time and with the materialism of a business-oriented culture. Took to a life of drinking. |
| Warring Harding | @@Politician@@ | Republican candidate and president. Was not a great leader. |
| Calvin Coolidge | @@Politician@@ | Harding’s vice president and successor. “Silent cal” |
| Billy Sunday | Evangelist | Radio evangelist, created crowds as he attacked drinking, gambling, and dancing |
| Aimee Semple McPherson | Evangelist | Preacher who condemned the evil of communism and jazz music from her pulpit in LA. |
| Al Capone | Gangster | Known for smuggling and bootlegging liquor and the bribery of government figures and prostitution. He used some of his money to make donations to various charitable endeavors. |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | Victims | two Italian immigrants convicted for a crime with very little evidence. guilty verdict reflected the anti-immigrant and anti-radical attitude of American citizens, being sentenced to death only because they were anarchists & of the Italian origin. |
| F Scott Fitzgerald | ^^Novelist^^ | Expressed disillusionment with the ideals of an earlier time and with the materialism of a business-oriented culture. Took to a life of drinking. |
| Paul Robeson | ^^Singer^^ | Singer/actor |
| Gertrude Stein | ^^Writer^^ | Believed religion to be hypocritical in its condemning the sacrifices of wartime as a fraud perpetrated by money interests. Called writers of his decade the “lost generation” |
| Frederick Lewis Allen | ^^Editor/writer^^ | editor of Harper's Bazaar and a historian, wrote Only Yesterday (informal history) |