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jazz music
style of music influenced by Dixieland blues and ragtime -
Marcus Garvey
organized black businesses and established a corps of Black Cross nurses -
the great migration
When African americans looked to the north for finding the freedom and economic opportunities unavailable to them in the South. -
Henry ford
invented the automobile, stimulated other industries, promoted freedom and prosperity, altered residential patterns -
red scare
rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Teapot Dome Scandal involved a former US Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company -
warren g. harding's "return to normalcy"
to return to the way of life before ww1 -
Frances Willard
an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska a dominant force in the Democratic Party -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow"s family was against slavery, their home was a station along the underground Railroad. They wanted to help slaves to the north. -
Harlem Renaissance
produced a wealth of african american poetry, literature, art and music expressing the pain, sorrow, and discrimination felt by blacks at the time -
scopes monkey trail
john scopes: high school bio teacher charged w/ illegally teaching the theory of evolution -
langston hughes
a poet of the harlem renaissance described the lives of african american life,hope and defiance -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Became the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean -
stock market crash "black Tuesday"
stock prices fell sharply. -
Federal Reserve System
to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system -
Dust Bowl
long periods of drought and destructive farming methods ruined farming -
Franklin D Roosevelt
was the thirty-second President of the United States He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. -
21st Amendment
repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol -
prohibition
movement to ban all alcohol in the US -
Tennessee Valley Authority
A relief, recovery, and reform effort that gave 2.5 million poor citizens jobs and land. -
Securities and Exchange Commission
agency of the government that regulates financial markets and investment companies -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
insured savings of bank depositors and monitored soundness of insures banking institutions -
Social Security administration
guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65 -
social darwinism
The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle. -
tin pan alley
Music publishing houses in NYC specialized in one style of music -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Was a great supporter of civil rights and opposed the Jim Crow laws.
