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Federal Reserve System
-To provide the nation with safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system
-There are twelve Federal Reserve Districts in the Federal Reserve System
-Was founded by United States Congress -
The Great Migration
-The migration in the south move to Northern cities for better opportunities
-Tended to live in ghettos
-Many saw just as much discrimination in the North -
William Jennings Bryan
-He won the democratic nomination.
-In 1896 he giving his famous speech "Cross of Gold"
-His national campaigning helped Congress pass the 18th Amendment in 1918 -
Marcus Garvey
-Garvey founded the General Negro Development Association and supported the relocation of African Americans back to Africa.
-He was part of the departure of the "Back to Africa" movement
-He believes that equality for African Americans will not be successful in the United States. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
-He ran in the 1920 campaign in the election campaign "Return to Normalcy".
-While he was president, he tried to upgrade the economy
-He believed that the government should support the business but don’t interfere with the economy -
1st Red Scare
-Begun by Russia's Bolshevik Revolution
-Fear of communist revolution in the U.S.
-Passage of various sedition laws -
Prohibition & The 18th Amendment
-From 18th Amendment they established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages by abandon alcohol and sale of alcohol illegal
-After the 18th Amendment to Congress passed the Volstead Act, which imposed a ban on January 17, 1920, this act imposed a strict alcohol limit to ensure content was no more than 5%
-18th Amendment lasted 14 years long -
Jazz
-Originated in New Orleans
-Considered the only truly American music
-Frequently played in speakeasies; many saw it as corrupting youth -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Distance relative of Theodore Roosevelt
-Lost 1920 Election for vice president
-Paralyzed in 1921 from polio -
Tin Pan Alley
-Music Publishing house on New York
-The center of songwriting commercial
-Piano arrangements of popular songs are the music style of Tin Pan Alley -
Clarence Darrow
-Famous criminal lawyer who supported the evolution
-Worked in "Monkey Trial"
-Made William Jennings Bryan appear foolish when he questioned William about the Bible -
Teapot Dome Scandal
-It occur at Elks hill California
-Albert fall, Edward L. Doheny, and Harry Ford Sinclair were the key players in this scandal
-Problem that associated with this scandal was Leases the governments oil to private people -
Scopes Monkey Trial
-This case was about a criminal misdemeanor case.
-It was focus on Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
-William Jennings Bryan was the main prosecutor -
Harlem Renaissance
-Flourishing of African American musical, literary, and artistic talent
-Centered in black district of New York city
-Changed many Americans' perception of blacks -
Langston Hughes
-A leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance
-He was an innovator of new literary art form of jazz poetry
-He hold american poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist skills. -
Henry Ford
-He was the most important industrialist of the 20th century, and he also introduced the Model T car, Assembly Line, $5.00 a day wage.
- The first car that he built was Quadricycle
-In 1927, Ford introduce a new car after the Model T called the Model A, it had a range of different colors -
Charles A. Lindbergh
-He is the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic ocean from New York to Paris in 1927.
-Pulitzer Prize winner for writing the book, The Spirit of Saint Louis.
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Frances Willard
-Be the national president of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union or World WCTU for 19 years
-Developed the slogan "Do everything" for the women of the WCTU to incite lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publication, and education.
-She taught people about the evils of alcohol. -
Social Darwinism
-The belief that only one creature survives in the political and economic battle of man.
-Adapting Darwin's natural selection and evolution theory to a human society to raise and improve the human race.
-In the late 19th century they describe the idea that human likes animals and plant -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
-Panic started on October 24
-A mostly steady decline until 1932
-Many bank failed -
Eleanor Roosevelt
-She helped others who were less fortunate than her taught immigrants how to read and helped feed the poor and she also helped women to understand the issues so they could vote wisely
-She was helped to start the United Nations
-There's her picture on the stamp -
The New Deal
-Name after a phrase in FDR's 1932
-Became the nickname for FDR's economic program
-Consisted of three separate aspects : Relief, Recovery, Reform -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
-Known as the 3 "R's"
-Introduced by president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to solve unemployment and economic crisis problem
-The "New Deal" consisted of three separate aspects -
The Dust Bowl
-Also known as the Dirty Thirties
-It was a time period that had a furious dust storm that damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies
-In 1933, there were 38 storms -
20th Amendment
-The President's term begins on January 20th
-Sometimes called the "lame duck" amendment
-Set the inauguration day as January 20th. -
Civilian Conservation Corp. (CCC)
-Sending young men of age between 18 to 25 to camps in national parks and forests to plant trees, build reservoirs, etc. to provide employment to them
-Three billion trees was planted by CCC
-Was a public work relief program that worked from 1933 to 1942 for United States for employed unmarried men -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
-Savings of depositors of the insured and verification of financial institution assurance
-The FDIC is an independent federal agency created in 1933 to promote public confidence and stability in the banking system of the country.
-$250,000 per depositor, per FDIC-insured bank, per ownership category are insured by FDIC -
21st Amendment
-Repeal of Prohibition, so alcohol was legal
-It was done during the Great Depression to make people trust the government again
-The Twenty-first Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933 -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
-It was established in 1934 to control trading of debentures and other securities.
-The goal is to protect investors from harmful or illegal financial practices
-It's a reform -
Social Security Administration(SSA)
-The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935.
-This Act created a social insurance program for pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.
-The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government -
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1936 Summer Olympics
-It was an international multi-sports event in 1936 in Berlin, Germany
-Officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad
-Athletes participating totally have 3,963; (3,632 men, 331 women) -
The Great Depression
-It was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world
-When it reached to the lowest point,15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half the country’s banks had failed
-Began with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
