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Frances Willard
An American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. -
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Clarence Darrow
An American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
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William Jennings Bryan
A Nebraska congressman -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president during key moments in U.S. history such as the Great Depression and World War II. During his first months in office, he passed several programs and reforms designed to stimulate the economy and relieve those struggling financially. -
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Eleanor Roosevelt
An American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest serving First Lady of the United States -
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Marcus Garvey
An orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. -
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Dorothea Lange
An American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration -
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Langston Hughes
One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. -
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Charles A. Lindbergh
An American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. -
Jazz Music
A genre of music in the early 1900's, and is popular to this day -
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The great migration
The movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
Federal Reserve System
The central banking system of the United States. -
Tin Pan Alley
The name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. -
Social Darwanism
The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals -
Harlem Renaissance
The cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. -
Prohibition
A nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages -
First Red Scare
A period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events -
Warren G Harding's Return To Normalcy
Return to normalcy was Harding's presidential promise after world war one -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
A bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
Scopes Monkey Trial
An American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act -
The stock market crash
Share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression. -
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The Great Depression
A severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s -
"Relief, Recovery ,Reform"
Programs introduced in the great depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis. -
The Dust Bowl
A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the U.S. and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
The New Deal
A series of programs, including, most notably, Social Security, that were enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. -
20th Amendment
An amendment installing the set dates of which federal elected offices end, also who will succeed the president if the president dies. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
An independent agency of the federal government responsible for insuring deposits made by individuals and companies in banks and other thrift institutions -
21st Amendment
This Amendment simply repealed the 18th, otherwise known as prohibition -
Securities and Exchange Commission
An agency of the United States federal government. It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws -
Social Security Administration
An independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. -
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Henry Ford
An American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
