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Frances Willard
Frances Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist
Her influence was instrumental for a lot of people the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution.
In 1879, Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) -
Tin Pan Alley
It became popular during the 19th century. Is a genre of popular american music she has ballads,dance music,and vaudeville. The name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century -
Henry Ford
Founded the car company Ford and he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle-class Americans could afford. He had successfully sold lots of crashes in the company. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. He has served in the United State House of Representative. At one point he was also a hero with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in 1898, Bryan was forced to consider his party's stance on foreign policy. -
Warren Gamaliel Harding "Return to Normalcy"
He was an American politician who served as the 29th President of the United States. In 1899, he was elected to the Ohio State Senate and after four years there successfully ran for lieutenant governor. He was defeated for governor in 1910, but was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. -
Federal Reserve System
It is the central banking system of the United States. They led to the desire for central control of the monetary system in order to alleviate financial crises. The Federal Reserve System is composed of several layers. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a leader for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.
He also founded the Black Star Line, a shipping and passenger line which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands
He was successful because during 1920s, his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was the largest secular organization in African-American history -
The Great Migration
It was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that happened between 1916 and 1970
In 1910, more than 90 percent of the African-American population lived in the American South
During the Great Migration, African Americans began to build a new place for themselves in public life. -
Harlem Renaissance
It was a popular african american culture from 1917-1837, it has literary,musical,theatrical,and visual arts. This considered a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art. -
Prohibition and the 18th Amendment
The ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution–which banned the manufacture, transportation and the sale of intoxicating liquors ushered in American history known as Prohibition. The 18th Amendment was congress passed in 1920 for a reason which is to strict limits on beverages containing alcohol, ensuring that the content would be no more than .5%. -
Langston Hughes
He published his first poem in 1921
In 1920, langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, and playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance
In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War he served as a war correspondent for several American newspapers. -
Jazz music
Jazz was originated by African-Americans in New Orleans, United State in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Throughout the year it developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression and has a huge impact in our music industry even now. -
1st Red Scare
It was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included those such as the Russian Revolution and anarchist bombings. This was originally in the hyper-nationalism of World War I as well as the Russian Revolution -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Teapot Dome Scandal also know as Oil Reserves Scandal or Elk Hills Scandal. It was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Teapot Dome was regarded as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics -
Clarence Darrow
He was an American lawyer, a leader member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. He defended the high-profile clients in trials of the early 20th century. Darrow soon became one of America's leading labor attorneys in the United State. -
Scope Monkey Trial
About 90 years ago the Scopes Monkey Trial began
In 1925,Tennessee passed down a law to the state,that the teaching of evolution is forbidden because it interferes with the bible story of creation
John Thomas Scopes violated the law and taught evolution to his students,and William Jennings Bryan argued for prosecution,but in the end Scopes lost -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Was the first person to have a nonstop flight from New York to Paris in 1927, he had given the medal of honor. On the same year, he made another nonstop trip from Washington to New York -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
Was the last day of stock market crashes during 1929.
Lost $199 billion on the New York Stock Exchange.
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1939, and was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. A lot of home were gone and people suffers. There was about 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half the country’s banks had failed. -
The Dust Bowl
In the southern PLains Region of the U.S. , during the 1930’s they experienced many dust storms
The winds swept up dust and debris,and could have possibly choked people
Crops and livestock died,and farmers struggled
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The New Deal
The New Deal is the federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations in the United States in the1930s during Great Depression. These programs helped to improve and make some changes for the better generation. Including by supporting for farmers, the unemployed, youth and the elderly as well as new constraints and safeguards on the banking industry and changes to the monetary system. -
20th Amendment
This movement moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. A simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
She was an American politician, diplomat and activist. During her husband President Franklin Roosevelt served the 4 terms, Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" and this contribute as a human rights achievements. -
Civilian Conservation Corp. (CCC)
CCC was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men. The CCC was a major part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. All American public made the CCC the most popular of all the New Deal programs. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FCIC)
The FDIC was created by the 1933 Banking Act during the Great Depression. This corporation provide deposit insurance to the depositors in the United State. Lately in May 1, 2017 the FCIC provided deposit deposit insurance at 5,844 institution. -
21st Amendment
By the late 1800s, prohibition movements had sprung up across the United States, driven by religious groups who considered alcohol, specifically drunkenness, a threat to the nation. It become a officially repealed federal prohibition, which had been enacted through the Eighteenth Amendment, adopted in 1919. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
The Relief, Recovery and Reform programs, known as the 'Three R's', were introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. It could be temporary or permanent actions and reforms and were collectively known as FDR's New Deal. FDR's Three R's helped a lot of Americans and have made a lot of changes. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
SEC is an independent agency of the United States federal government. The SEC was created by Section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. They have a three-part mission which is to protect investors; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and facilitate capital formation. -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
A social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivor's benefits. The Social Security Administration was established by a law codified at 42 U.S.C. § 901. In 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt included this program as one of the New Deal with the signing of the Social Security Act of 1935. -
1936 Summer Olympic
Also known as the Games of the XI Olympiad which happened in in Berlin, Germany. All the games were expected to be successful. The costs of the games was mostly paid for by the German government -
Social Darwinism
It is the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer. This was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American statesman and political leader he was elected president in 1932 and re-elected in 1936, he served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945, and gave hope to people during the Great Depression.
