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Langston Hughes
He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue" -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Frances Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879, and remained president until her death in 1898. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. Lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s, the period is considered a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art. -
Henry Ford
In 1903, he established the Ford Motor Company, and five years later the company rolled out the first Model T,n 1913, the world’s first moving assembly line for cars. -
Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of financial panics led to the desire for central control of the monetary system in order to alleviate financial crises. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of more than 6 million African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970. Driven from their homes by bad economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws, many blacks headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that first arose during the 1st World War. -
Prohibition & the 18th amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by making the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
Tin Pan Alley
The phrase tin pan referred to the sound of pianos furiously pounded by the so-called song pluggers, who demonstrated tunes to publishers. Tin Pan Alley comprised the commercial music of songwriters of ballads, dance music, and vaudeville, and its name eventually became synonymous with American popular music in general. -
Socail Darwinism
the theory that human groups and races have the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin had perceived in plants and animals in nature. According to the theory which was popular in the early 20th centuries, the weak were diminished and their cultures delimited while the strong grew in power and in cultural influence over the weak. Social Darwinists held that the life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled by “survival of the fittest” -
Warren G Harding "Return to Normalcy
Return to normalcy, a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan for the election of 1920. -
Jazz Music
- Originated in New Orleans 2.Considered the only truely "American Music" 3.Mostly Played in speakeasies
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a unprecedented level of greed and corruption within the federal government. The scandal involved ornery oil tycoons, poker-playing politicians, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide, a womanizing president and a bagful of bribery cash delivered on the sly -
1st Red Scare (1920s)
During the Red Scare of 1919 - 1920, many in the United States feared recent immigrants and dissidents, those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist ideology caused the red scare.
Ex:The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, which led immigrants, particularly from Russia and southern Europe intended to overthrow the United States government -
Marcus Garvey
During the 1920s, his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was the largest secular organization in African-American history. Indicted for mail fraud by the U.S. Justice Department in 1923, he spent two years in prison before being deported to Jamaica, and later died in London. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Monkey Trial begins with John Scopes, a high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. The law, made it a misdemeanor punishable by fine to “teach any theory that denies the story of the Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from animals. -
Charles A. LindBergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim, was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize–making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. -
The Great Depression
The great depression began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its lowest point, some 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half the country’s banks had failed. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
On Black Tuesday. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression, the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl refers to the drought in the Southern Plains region of the United States which suffered dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt ambitious slate of New Deal programs and reforms redefined the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans and helped them get out of the great depression. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt changed the role of the first lady through her active participation in American politics.Eleanor gave press conferences and wrote a newspaper column. After his death, she served at the United Nations, focusing on human rights and women's issues. -
20th Amendment
The 20th Amendment shortened the period of time "Lame" duck Members of Congress could stay in office after an election had been held, from 13 months to 2 months. -
The New Deal
President Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933,Over the next eight years, the government instituted a series of experimental projects and programs, known collectively as the New Deal, that aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity to many Americans. -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
The Relief, Recovery and Reform programs, known as the 'Three R's', was started by President Roosevelt during the Great Depression to help the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis. FDR's Three R's Relief, Recovery and Reform - required either immediate, temporary or permanent actions and reforms and were collectively known as FDR's New Deal. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corpartion (FDIC)
Restored confidence in banks and encouraged savings by insuring bank customers against the loss of up to $5,000 in their deposits if their bank should fail. Created by the Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act of 1933. -
21st Amendnent
The 21st Amendnent was the first amendment to repeal an amendment which was the 18th amendment which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 16, 1919. -
Civilian Conservation Corp. (CCC)
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief program that gave millions of people employment on environmental projects during the Great Depression. Considered by many to be one of the most successful of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs,constructed trails and shelters in more than 800 parks nationwide during its nine years of existence. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
is a U.S. government agency that oversees securities transactions, activities of financial professionals and mutual fund trading to prevent fraud and intentional deception. -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. -
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain, on 26 April 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona.
