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Frances Willard
She was born on September 28, 1839. She was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. -
Clarence Darrow
Was an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. He was best known for defending teenage killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924. -
Social Darwinism
A modern name given to various theories of society that emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, which claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. -
Tin Pan Alley
Was a collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. -
Federal Reserve System
Is also known as the Federal Reserve or the Fed—is the central banking system of the United States. -
Harlem Renaissance
It was the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. -
Prohibition
the act of prohibiting the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages. -
1st Red Scare
Concerns over the effects of radical political agitation in American society and the alleged spread of communism and anarchism in the American labor movement fueled a general sense of paranoia citation needed. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
A bribery that had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Trail involved a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, who was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party. -
The Great Depression
was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. Began soon after the stock market crash and wiped out millions of investors. -
Black Tuesday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. -
Jazz Music
A genre of music that originated from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. -
"Return to Normalcy"
Warren G. Harding's promise was to return the United States to its prewar mentality, without the thought of war tainting the minds of the American people. -
20th Amendment
It sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
Relief for the unemployed and poor, Recovery of the economy to normal levels, and Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
A United States government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in US banks. -
Social Security Administration
an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. -
The New Deal
A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938. -
21st Amendment
This amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
An American politician, diplomat, and activist.[1] She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office -
Securities and Exchange Commission
An agency of the United States federal government. It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States. -
Marcus Garvey
He was born on August 17, 1887. He was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. He was most famous for his thoughts about freed slaves leaving the United States and returning to their home lands. -
Henry Ford
was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production -
Dorothea Lange
an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) -
Langston Hughes
He was born on February 1, 1902. He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of Jazz Poetry. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
He was born on February 4, 1902 and he was an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist. He was most famous for making a solo nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France.
