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Henry Ford
He was the biggest business man and industrialist in America. The founder of Ford Motor Company and the man largely responsible for initiating the era of mass-consumption and mass-production in the American economy. Ford's innovative business practices, including standardization, the assembly line, and high wages for workers, revolutionized American industry. -
The great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban between 1910 and 1970. During the initial wave the majority of migrants moved to major northern cities such as Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New York, New York. The primary push factors for migration were segregation, increase in racism, lynching, and lack of social and economic opportunities in the South. -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is the central banking. It was created on December 23, 1913. The purpose was to repair the problems of bank panics, central bank and bank regulation. -
Jazz music
Jazz is a music genre that came from African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jazz is as a major form of musical expression. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. -
Red Scared
The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States. America feared Bolshevism and anarchism. All of this started due to the Russian Revolution as well as the communist revolution. -
Frances Willard
She was a suffragist. She founded The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in the 1974. The WCTU was helpful in paving the way for the passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919, which prohibited the sale of alcohol nationwide. -
Social Darwinism
It is a a 19th-century theory, inspired by Charles Darwin. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors. Darwinism was highly influential at the beginning of the 20th century, it rapidly lost support after World War I (1914-1918). During the 1920s and 1930s, many political observers blamed it for contributing to German militarism and the rise of Nazism. -
Marcus Garvey
He was born in Jamaica. Marcus was a leader in the black nationalist movement. During the 1920s, his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was the largest secular organization in African-American history. -
Warren G. Harding's " Return to Normalcy"
This speech was from the candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign in the election of the 1920. He promised to return to the way of life before World War 1. He won the elections with 60.3% of the popular vote. -
Prohibition
Prohibition was a constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. The alcoholism, family violence, and saloon-based political corruption led activists, led by pietistic Protestants, to end the liquor trade to cure the ill society. On March 22, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Cullen–Harrison Act, legalizing beer with an alcohol content of 3.2%. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Teapot Dome Scandal, also called Oil Reserves Scandal was a scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior. It is reinforced by the suicide of former Enron executive Cliff Baxter. -
Langston Hughes
He moved to Washington D.C in 1924, where his first book of poetry, The Weary Blues(1926), was published. He was known for his talent of writing novels, poetry, short stories, plays and also on his influence in the world of the Jazz. His life and work were enormously important in the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. -
Clarence Darrow
He was an American lawyer. In 1925, he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution. July 10, 1925, the trial known as Monkey Trial begins. He lost the Monkey trial against the other lawyer, named William Jennings Bryan. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) was born in Illinois and he became a Nebraska congressman in 1890. He is known for being part of the "Monkey Trial" in 1925. In a famous exchange, Clarence Darrow, defending Scopes, put Bryan on the witness stand and revealed his ignorance of science and archaeology. Bryan died soon after the trial ended. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
John Scopes was accused of teaching the theory of the evolution in High School, Tennessee. He was not sure to have taught it or not, but he accused himself so that the case could have a defendant. He was found guilty and paid a fine of $100. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
He was the first pilot who flown from a continent to another, alone nonstop. The flight took more than 3,600 miles in 33 1/2 hours. He became a heroic flight throughout the world. He was honored with awards and celebrations. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. It started soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Franklin D. Roosevelt helped to get through the Great Depression with his idea, New Deal. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
It started on October 29, 1929. The prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression. It began on October 24, 1929, and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. Billions of dollars were lost. -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who were popular for the music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The original name is referred to a specific place: West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. The start of Tin Pan Alley is dated about the 1885, and it ends by the Great Depression 1930. -
The Dust Bowl
It is also knows as the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s. The areas affected were Oklahoma and Texas and neighboring sections of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. The causes were drought and a failure to apply drylands farming methods to prevent wind erosion. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for president in 1932s. He promised to make Americans lives better. He created the New deal that ended the Great Depression and also brought safety to America. -
The 20th Amendment
The 20th Amendment sets the dates when the government elected offices end. It also says who succeeds the president if the president dies. This amendment was passed the January 23th of 1933. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt became a key voice inside the White House for appointing women to positions in the administration. She wanted to improve the plight of the unemployed, and addressing the concerns of youth. She became the first lady of the United States in March 1933. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
It is a corporation created by the Congress on May 18, 1933 to bring navigation, flood control, electricity generation, and economic development. Tennessee was really affected by the Great Depression. The Tennessee Valley Authority was one of FDR most innovative ideas. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform..
The Relief, Recovery and Reform is known as the Three R's, made by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. It was a help for the unemployment and economic crisis. It was many agencies for the people. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FCIC)
It is a corporation that provides deposit insurance for the banks. It was created by the 1933 Banking Act. The goal was to restore trust for the banks. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was made by Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was a tool to get rid of the Great Depression. The New Deal was a series of ideas like the Social Security, new laws, work administrations, reforms on the bank and tax policy. -
21st Amendment
The Twenty-first Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933. It is the only one to repeal a prior amendment and to have been ratified by state ratifying conventions. Amendment XXI returned the regulation of alcohol to the states. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
It is an agency of the United States federal government. The goals are to secure the laws, and other industrials themes. It helped the Social Security Act too. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was a photographer from the Great Depression. She pictured poor people and workers in the street. She is known for the portrait, “Migrant Mother,” an iconic image from this period that gently and beautifully captured the hardship and pain of what so many Americans were experiencing. -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
It was made in August 14, 1935. It is an act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and for other purposes. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. It was an intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity.
