Definition: the automobile producer from Detroit, Michigan he produced the inexpensive Model T which made car ownership possible for most Americans.

Buzz: Americans, Producer, automobile

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Definition: a business that is open to nonunion workers.

Buzz: business, workers, nonunion

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Definition: when companies voluntarily offer to improve employee benefits and higher wages in order to remove the need to organize unions.

Buzz: improve, raise, higher  

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Definition: the name given to the "new" and "modern" culture of cities and the 1920s as a whole based upon the expression of rebellion against the elders' culture by enjoying African American music.

Buzz: expression, culture, music

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Definition: an expression in buyers' demands fuel by advertising and allowing customers to buy on credit. 

Buzz: Expression, demands, credit. 

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Definition: the first aviator to complete a solo flight over the Atlantic accompished in 1927 becoming a world-wide hero. 

Buzz: aviator, solo, flight 

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Definition: an outspoken advocate for birth control she gained growing accepting in the Twenties.

Buzz: advocate, birth, control

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Definition: the new literary movement referring to the many restless young writiters who gathered in Paris after WWI.

Buzz: movement, literary, WWI

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Definition: the writer who's The Great Gatsby tells of an idealist who is gradually destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.

Buzz: Writer, gradually, destroyed 

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Definition: he wrote A Farewell to Arms in 1929 and told the story of a love affair between an American ambulance driver and a British nurse in italy during WW1 receiving a Pulitzer Prize.

Buzz: Farewell, story, Pulitzer Prize. 

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Definition: this African-American section of New York city that was a center for black writers, musicians, and intellectuals in the 1920s.

Buzz: New York, center, black writers 

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Definition: a gifted writer who wrote humorous poems, stories, essays and poetry, he was a literacy giant of the Harlem Renaissance. 

Buzz: gifted, giant, humorous 

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Definition: Black leader who advocated "black nationalism" and financial independence for Blacks, he started the "Back to Africa" movement. He believed Blacks would not get justice in mostly white nations. 

Buzz: Black Leader, white, nations 

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Definition: the prosecution of Dayton, Tennessee school teacher in 1925 for the violation of a Tennessee law forbidding public schools from teaching about evolution. Former Democratic presidential candidate, William Jennings Bryan, prosectuted the case, and the famous criminal attorney, Clarence Darrow; defended the teacher. He was convicted and fined $100, but the trial started a shift of public opinion away from Fundamentalism. 

Buzz: public opinion, fundamentalism, prosecuted

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Definition: the 18th Amendment outlawed the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors in 1919.

Buzz: Amendment, outlawed, liquors

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Definition: A1 Capone was one of the most famous gangsters of this era, Chicago was notorious for being corrupt and run by the mob.

Buzz: Capone, famous, Chicago

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