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Frances Willard
Frances was a women's suffragist. She had a huge influence on the eighteenth and nineteenth amendment. Helped women vote and helped create prohibition. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer. He was the leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He defended Scope's right to vote evolution. -
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan wroked for peace, prohibition, and womans suffrage. He joined the Scopes trial to prosecute John Scopes for teaching evolution. -
Henry Ford
He innovated the mass production of goods which was the assembly line. It was originally created for the production of cars, but soon came useful for many things. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is therioes of society in the 1870's. Which claim concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest. -
Tin Pan Alley
It was a name given to New York publishers and songwriters. These people wrote the popular music during the early 20th century. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt was the president in the 30's. Many Americans were unemployed and he promised to make the american life better. He created the New Deal program that gave jobs to millions of people. -
Eleanor Roosevlet
She was the longest serving first lady of the United States. Helped a lot with the New Deal program. She was the wife of Franklin D Roosevelt -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus was a political leader who believed that African Americans should go back to their ancient lands. He founded the Black Star Line. This was a boat transport for blacks to go back to Africa. -
Dorothea Lange
She was a very well known photographer. She became very famous for her photos during the depression era. -
Langston Hughes
Langston was an American poet, social activist, and many other things as well. An early innovator of the new literary art form called jazz poetry. He is known for being a leader during the Harlem Renaissance. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles was a very famous American Aviator. He is very well known for the first solo transalantic flight in 1927. He was a social activist as well. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 millions blacks out of rural southern states to the urban northern states. It happened between 1910 through 1970. -
Jazz music
It was the first known music to be born in the United States. Jazz was an African American drived music form that was big in the 20's. Many speak easies played jazz music. -
Federal Reserve System
It is the central banking system of the US. It was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. It was created so America doesnt go through the Great Depression again. -
Harlem Renaissance
Cultural, social, and artistic explosion that happened in Harlem that happened at the end of WWI. It was known has the cultural center drawing many black artists. -
1st Red Scare
Many americans feared the rise of communism. Americans called it the red scare. Many people were blacklisted just for being believed to be a communist. The first scare was about worker revolution and political radicalism. -
Warren G. Harding's " returning to normalcy"
Was a way to return to life before World War I. It was Warren G. Harding's campaign promise for the election in 1920. -
Prohibition
Prohibition is the act of prohibiting the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages. It made a lot of law abiding citezens to become criminals. It is what created speak easies and caused illegal groups. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
It was a scandal sorrounding the secret leasing of Federal oil reserves. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes trial was because a Tenessee teache, John Scopes, taught evolution to his students. Many people disagreed of the teaching of evolution, but others thought it was a persons 1st amendment. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a time in America thatmany people were jobless. It happened shortly after "black tuesday". Many people were homeless, jobless, and desperate. -
Stock Market Crash
Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. After the stock market crash America went into the Great Depression. -
20th Amendment
The 20th Amendment sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
"Relief, Recovery, and Reform"
This was rooselvelts concept on how to get America back to normal. Relief was immediate action taken to stop the economies downfall. Recovery was temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demands. Reforms were perminent programs to stop another depression form happening. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was an idea created by Franklin D Roosevelt. It was created during/because the Great Depression. Its goal was to give millions of jobs to American citezens to help them get back on their feet. It worked. Millions americans had jobs and thousands of programs were created. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
It is federal owned corporation made during the New Deal era. It originally built dams across the Tennessee Valley. It became permanent a few years after it was made. -
FDIC
The 1933 Banking Act: established the FDIC as a temporary program. Banking Act of 1935 made it a permanent agenct of the government. -
21st Amendment
The 21st amendment was to end Prohibition. Many people were exited about it. It is the first amendment to stop another amendment from happening. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dus bowl was a period of severe dust storms. It greatly damaged the ecology an agriculture of the US. Many farmers had to move and give up their crops because it would be to dry. -
SEC
SEC was part of the New Deal era. It was created by congress to the markets and protect investors. -
Social Security Administration
It was originally called the Social Security Board. It was created when Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act.