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A group of artists who isolated themselves from society rather than influence or reform society  became known as the Lost Generation.  Writers of this era included T.S. Elliott, Gertrude Stein, and William Faulkner.

The political campaign that helped to elect William Henry Harrison to the presidency of the United States acquired the name of the Log Cabin campaign.

The 3 R’s of Roosevelt’s New Deal stood for relief, recovery, and reform.

These were establishments that were popular in the 1920s during Prohibition that served alcoholic beverages illegally.

This meeting of New Englanders, many of them Federalists, denounced the War of 1812.  Party delegates secretly debated and rejected the idea of succession. They had just adjourned when news of Jackson’s victory in New Orleans and the peace treaty became known.  They did succeed at drafting amendments to be added to the Constitution.  However, the Federalists Party would never recover.

When the charter of the Bank of the United States expired in 1811, state banks _______.

This novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald exemplifies the glitz and glamour of the decade while revealing its dark morality and corruption.

This law banned immigration from East Asia entirely and reduced the quota for European immigrants; the result was an immigrant system that greatly favored Northwestern Europeans.

In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), the Supreme Court confirmed the __________.

In 1814, the White House in Washington, D. C. was set fire by ________.