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Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American captain of industry, he was also a business magnate. He was the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line. In 1913 he installed the assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. -
Federal Reserve System
Created by Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System created on December 23, 1913. It is the central banking system of the United States. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million Africa American. Out of the rural Southern to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. This left and had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. -
1st Red Scare (1920s)
The First Red Scare, fear of communist revolution in the U.S.. At its height in 1919-1920, concerns over the effects of radical political agitation in American society. Marked as a wide spread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a proponent of Black nationalism in Jamaica also in the United States. He was a leader of the mass movement, Pan-Africanism. The slogan, "Africa for the Africans," popularized by Marcus Garvey's, Declaration of Negro Rights in 1920. He also founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association UNIA. -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley was the popular music publishing center of the world, between 1885 to the 1920s. The name was given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters, all who dominated the popular music of the U.S.. Located in Manhattan on West 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is the belief that all personal and social problems were inherited. Some social Darwinist argue that governments should not interfere with human competition by attempting to regulate the economy or cure social ills. During the 1920s many political observers blamed it for contributing to German militarism and the raise of Nazism. -
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a culture, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. It marked a moment when white American started recognizing the intellectual contributions of Blacks and other hand African Americans. This was a movement represented a rebirth of African American culture in the United States. -
Prohibition & the 18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment passed on Jan. 17, 1920, the United States established the prohibition of alcoholic drinks. By declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol. The "noble experiment" was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems. The amendment was later repealed by an election issue in 1928 and 1932. -
Frances Willard
Frances Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the 18th (prohibition) and 19th (women's suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution. Frances Willards thought it was important it was important for women to have the right to vote. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Return to normalcy, a return to the way of life before WWI, was Untied States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan for the election of 1920. In the aftermath of WWI, the Palmer Raids, a failed effort to ratify the League of Nations, economic stagnation and the falling presidency of Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding ran for president on a promise to return the nation to a better sense of normalcy. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Tea Pot Dome Scandal was an incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1920. Also known as Oil Reserves Scandal, in American history surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary. Albert Fall, served as secretary of the interior in President Warren G. Harding's cabinet, was founded guilty of accepting a bribe while in office. -
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan campaigned peace, prohibition and suffrage, and increasingly criticized the teaching of evolution. In 1925, he joined the prosecution in the trial of John T. Scopes. a Tennessee schoolteacher charged with violating state law by evolution. In a famous exchange, Clarence Darrow put Bryan on the witness stand and revealed his shallowness and ignorance of science. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow, most famous case occurred in 1925 when he defeated John T. Scopes, a public high school teach accused of teaching evolutionary theory in violation of Tennessee's State law. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Tennessee's Bulter Act (1925) prohibited teaching evolution darwinian. ACLU offered to defend any teacher who violated the law. Scopes taught evolution in class and was arrested, later went to court and was founded guilty and fined $100, around $1,300 in today's money. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist whose African American. He was the most important writer and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh nicknamed Lucky Lindy, in 1927 he became the first to successfully fly across the atlantic ocean. He made the flight a solo nonstop on May 20-21. From New York to Paris in 33 1/2 hours, in Spirt of St. Louis. -
Jazz Music
Jazz music became popular the start of the Depression on 1929 known as the "Jazz Age". Jazz originated in New Orleans about 100 years ago in the early 20th century. It was considered the only truly "American " music, roots in ragtime and blues, frequently played in speakeasies many saw it as corrupting the youth. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
Black Tuesday hits Wall Street as investors trade 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors, and stock tickers ran hours behind because the machinery could not handle the tremendous volume of trading. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a widespread economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s. The depression was caused by a number of serious weaknesses in the economy, it began with the dramatic crash in the stock market on "Black Thursday", October 24, 1929. In April 1939, around ten years after the crisis began, more than one in five Americans still could not find work, on the surface WWII seemed to mark the end of the Great Depression. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The Dust Bowl covered 300,000 square miles of territory located in Kansas, Texas, western Oklahoma, eastern Colorado, and New Mexico. In 1930, 14 dust storms were recorded on the Plains, 1933, there were 38 storms, and by 1934, it was estimated that 100 million acres of farmland. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Based on the assumptions that the power of the federal government was needed to get the country out of The Great Depression. The first days of Roosevelt's administrations saw the passage of banking reforms laws, emergency relief programs,work relief programs, and agricultural programs. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was a key figure in serval of the most important social reform movements of the twentieth century. The progressive movement, the New Deal, the Women's Movement, the struggle for racial justice, and the United Nations. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
Franklin D. Roosevelt- Relief, Recovery, Reform- required either immediate, temporary, or permanent actions and reforms and were collectively known as FDR's New Deal. The many Relief, Recovery, and Reform programs were initiated by a series of laws that were passed between 1933 and 1936. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted in the Untied States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression. -
20t Amendment
Ratified on January 23, 1933, a simple amendment that sets the date at which federal U.S. government elected offices end. The 20th Amendment tried to eliminate Lame Duck presidents and legislators, it is also important because it failed. The Amendments also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
Civilian Conservation Crop. (CCC)
The CCC started on April 5, 1933, one of the most popular New Deal programs. It provided jobs for the young men aged 18-25. The jobs included work on environmental projects, "Enlistees" were paid $30 per month, with $25 of that sent home to their families. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The FDIC's purpose was to provide stability to the economy and the failing bank systems. The FDIC guaranteed a specific amount of checking and saving deposits for its member bank. -
21st Amendments
Congress ratified the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture, transporting and sale alcoholic beverages. The United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment. In 1933 the public disillusionment led Congress to ratify the 21st Amendment and they repealed Prohibition. -
Securities & Exchange Commission
The United States Securities & Exchange Commissions is an independent, federal government agency responsible for protecting investors, maintaining fair and orderly functioning of securities market, and facilitating capital formation. -
Social Security Administrations (SSA)
An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several states to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of unemployment. -
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer olympics was an international multi-sport event that was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. The Nazi Party had risen to power in 1933, two years after Berlin was awarded the Games, and its racist policies led to an international debate about a boycott of the Games. The 1916 Olympics scheduled for Berlin were canceled due to WWI, under Goebbels' direction, the Nazi intended to use the Summer Olympics in Berlin as a showcase for the "new Germany"
