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Frances Willard
She was an American educator, reformer, and founder of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1883). She was an excellent speaker, a successful lobbyist, and an expert in pressure poltics. Willard was also the leader of the national Prohibition Party. -
Clarence Darrow
He moved to Chicago in 1887 in an attempt to free the anarchists who were charged in the Haymarjet Riot. In 1894 Darrow defended Eugene V. Debs, who was arrested on federal charge arising from the Pullman Strike. Clarence also secured the acquility of labor leader William D. Haywood for the assassination charges. He saved Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold from the death penalty and defended John T. Scopes. -
William Jennings Bryan
He became a Nebraska congressman in 1890. He was defeated while running for president of the United States with his Cross of Gold speech against president William McKinley. He used the years he was not the president to run a newspaper and tour as a public speaker. He served as Woodrow Wilson's secretary of the state until 1914 after helping Wilson secure the Democratic presidential nomination. -
Social Darwinism
It's a name given to lots of various theories of society that were formed in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s. They claim to aplly biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. It also help the life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled by "survival of the fittest." This phrase propsed by the British philosopher and scientist Herbert Spencer. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR was an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1922 to 1945. He made many great and amazing changes that positivly impacted the US. -
Eleanor Roosevlt
Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplmant, and activist. She was also the first longest serving First Lady of the United States. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was apart of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. In 1907, Garvey took part in a printer's strike wich was unsuccessful but it sparked a passion in him for political activism. He then started traveling through Central America working as a newspaper editor and writing about the exploitation of migrfant workers in the plantations. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea was a photographer. Her portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary photography. -
Jazz music
Genre of music that started from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 1900's and early 20th centry. -
Langston Hughes
He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright. He was from Joplin Missouri but moved to Washington DC in November 1924. His first book of poetry was called The Weary Blues and was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
He was an American aviator that made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Although other pilots have crossed the ocean before, Charles was the first person to do it solos and nonstop. -
Henry Ford
Ford created the assembly-line modes of production for the automobile (car). Henry also created the Ford Model T car in 1908 and then went on to invent the assembly line mode of production; this revolutionized the industry. He sold millions of cars as a result of this and became a world-famous company head. Although the company lost its market dominance, it had a lasting impact on the other technological develpoment and U.S. infrastructure. -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System was the central banking system of the United States. -
The Great Migration
This was a relocation ofmore than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and Wesr from 1916 to 1970. It had a huge impact on the urban life in the United States. They were taken from their homes becuase of unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws. They headed north and took advantage of the need for industrial workers that first became during the First World War. -
Harlem Renaissance
Spanning the 1920s to the mid-1930s, the Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity. -
1st Red Scare
Due to real and imagined event, such as the Russian Revolution and the publicly state goal of worldwide communist revolution, the United States marked a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. -
Tin Pan Alley
It was a genre of American popular music that became popular in the late 19th century. The first song that made this music popular was an American song-pubished in the center of New York City. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal involved big oil companies, bribery and national security. Corruption was at the highest levels of the government of the United States. It was named this for an oil reserve near a rock that looked just like a teapot. Many events led up to this scandal decades before when the government and U.S. Navy officials realized they needed a fuel supply that was more reliable and more portable than coal. -
The Great Depression
A very hard period of time for the US (1920s-1945). It was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
It was Warren G. Harding's campaighn promise in the election of 1920 when he was running for the President of the United States. His promise "was to return the Untied Staqtes prewar mentality, without the thought of the war tainting the minds of the American people." -
Scopes Monkey Trial
John Thomas Scopes was a young high school teacher who was accused of teavhing evolution in the violationof a Tennessee state law. A law had been passed in March that made it a misdemeanor and/or punishable fine to "teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taight in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals." The ACLU organized a defense and in 1927, the Tennessee Supreme COurt overturned the Monkey Trial verdict. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
This was one of the leading things that lead America to the Great Depression. Billions of dollars were lost and this wiped out thousands of investors. Stock tickers ran hours of trading. It reached its peak in August 1929. Unemployment had rised which led stocks in great excess of their value. After October 29, 1929, stock prices had no where to go but up. -
The Dust Bowl
This time period was aslo known as the dirty thirties. It was a period of severe dust storms that left major damage to the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies. It started because bad farming practice. People unplanyed crops and mixed the good soil to the top. All this occured after a drought, high winds pick up and blew dust all the way to New York City -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Relief, Recovery, Reform These were the categories into which the New Deal was split. Relief defined by the acts implemented in the area of aid to the unemployment. Recovery put forth measures that would help aid in the speedy recovery of areas hit hardest by the depression. Reform tried to recreate areas that seemed faulty -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
This entity provided insurance to personal banking accounts up to $5,000. These assured people that their money was safe and secure. This agency still functions today. -
20th Amendment
This was a simple but effective amendment. It sets the dates at which federal government elected officeds end. It also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
A New Deal agency created to generate electric power and control floods in a seven-U.S.-state region around the Tennessee River Valley . It created many dams that provided electricity as well as jobs. -
The New Deal
Series of programs that enacted between 1933 and 1938. Some also came later on. One of the programs of the New Deal was the CCC-Civilization conservation corps which provided jobs for Americans, -
21st amendment
This amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution of December 5, 1933. It repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The 18th Amendment mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. -
Securities and Exchange Commission
Congressional commission created in 1934 to administer the Securites Act requiring full financial disclosure by companies wishing to sell stock, and to prevent the unfair manipulation of stock exchanges -
Social Security Administration
The greatest victory for New Dealers; created pension and insurance for the old-aged, the blind, the physically handicapped, delinquent children, and other dependents by taxing employees and employers -
Prohibition
Prohibition became a big deal when the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liqours. Prohibition was difficult to enforce. The Prohibition era came to a close when congress adopted a resolution proposing a 21st Amendment to the Constitution which repealed the 18th.
