Between The Wars

Frances Willard

Jan 1, 1893

• Women's rights activist
• Was using black criminality to end temperance
• Her influence got the 18th and 19th amendment passed

Henry Ford

Jun 16, 1903

• Created the Model T car
• Created the assembly line to push products out faster
• Lowered prices in the economy

Federal Reserve System

Dec 23, 1913

• Provided the nation with a safer monetary system
• Provided nation with a more flexible monetary system
• People were less worried about their money going away

The Great Migration

Mar 20, 1916

• Migration of African Americans from the south to the north
• Urbanized the African Americans
• One of the largest and fastest movements in history

Jazz Music

Feb 27, 1917

• Unification of European and African music
• Started in New Orleans
• Very popular during the Harlem Renaissance

Prohibition & the 18th Amendment

Jan 29, 1919

• Stopped production of alcohol
• Stopped legalized selling of alcohol
• Started organized crime

1st Red Scare

Feb 27, 1919

• Russia undergone a revolution to become communists
• The US was afraid the communists were in the US
• Anarchists were mistaken for communists.

Warren G Harding's "Return to Normalcy

Jan 1, 1920

• Slogan for Warren G. Harding's campaign for office
• Wanted to forget about horrors of WW1
• Wanted to restore American's thoughts to normal

Harlem Renaissance

Mar 20, 1920

• Flourishing of African American musical, literary, and artistic talent
• Centered in the black district of New York City
• Changed many Americans' perception on blacks

Tea Pot Dome Scandal

Sep 16, 1922

• Oil company owners were being bribed
• Low rates for oil given to Wyoming and two locations in California
• There was no competitive bidding

Clarence Darrow

Jul 12, 1925

• American lawyer
• Leader of the American Civil Liberties Union
• Defended high profile clients in the 20th century

William Jennings Bryan

Jul 12, 1925

• Politician from Nebraska
• Served at the United States House of Representatives
• Prosecution for the Scopes Trial

Scopes Monkey Trial

Jul 21, 1925

• Dealt with a high school teacher teaching human evolution
• Staged trial, the ones defending the accused knew it'd fail
• Aimed to draw attention to the issue

Social Darwinism

Jul 21, 1925

• Natural selection would kill off anything that wasn't fit to survive.
• Was not widely accepted due to a more Fundamentalist way of thinking
• Teachers could get in trouble for trying to teach this

Langston Hughes

Apr 15, 1926

• Used jazz Poetry
• Leader of Harlem Renaissance
• Wrote about when the "negro was vogue"

Charles A Lindbergh

May 21, 1927

-Plane named Spirit of Louis
- Flew from New York to Paris in 33 and a half hours
- His son was abducted

Marcus Garvey

Aug 30, 1927

• Led Back to Africa Movement
• Founded Universal Negro Improvement Association
• Went back to Africa

Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"

Aug 29, 1929

• Most devastating stock market crash in US history
• Beginning of Great Depression
• Suicides due to loss of money

The Great Depression

Oct 29, 1929

• Lowest the US's economy has every dropped
• Unemployment rates were at an all time high
• People losing money and houses everywhere

Tin Pan Alley

Mar 16, 1930

• Collection of music publishers
• Collection of songwriters
• Located in Manhattan

The Dust Bowl

Jun 1, 1930

• An area where major dust storms would form and ruin land
• Caused by ignorant farmers not knowing how to plant or crop food
• Dust storms traveled from the center all the way to New York

20th Amendment

Jan 23, 1933

• Changed the presidential starting times
• Changed the presidential ending times
• Nicknamed the "Lame Duck Law"

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mar 4, 1933

• 32nd president of the United States
• Created the New Deal plans to help the US
• Was loved by the American people

Eleanor Roosevelt

Mar 16, 1933

• She was an American Politician
• Wife of Franklin D Roosevelt
• FDR and her were both cousins of one another
• First Lady of the US

The New Deal

Mar 16, 1933

• Organizations formed by FDR to help the US
• Most organizations that were formed failed
• Only a few persisted into our modern day life
• Helped reaffirm the US economy back into its good spot

Relief, Recovery, Reform

Mar 17, 1933

• The three Rs meant to stabilize the US economy and people
• Each New Deal Org. was created to satisfy one of these
• Greatly impacted the US as a whole

Civilian Conversation Corporation

Apr 5, 1933

• Another New deal program
• Created for the unmarried and unemployed men
• Helped teach and give lots of men jobs while the economy was down

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Jun 16, 1933

• Provide stability for the American economy
• Ensure that banks wouldn't crash with an economic crisis
• Gave insurance to the money that you put into the bank

21st Amendment

Dec 3, 1933

• Ends the 18th amendment
• Essentially said that the 18th amendment was a flaw
• Legalized the selling and distribution of alcohol

Securities & Exchange Commission  

Jun 6, 1934

• Protects anyone who invests into a bank
• Makes sure that the money within the bank isn't lost
• Banks can't bet your money away

Social Security Administration

Aug 14, 1935

• Part of the federal government
• Assures people who helped society will be paid back in their senior citizen years
• One of the New Deal organization formed

1936 Sumer Olympics

Aug 1, 1936

• Olympic sporting event held in Berlin, Germany
• Adolf Hitler built a 100,000 seat track and field stadium
• First to be televised to the world