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Jazz music
marked the popularity of a music that was unique to America, in the sense that it was a blending of cultures. -
Marcus Gavery
was a black leader in nationalist movement his Universal Negro Improvement Association was the largest secular organization in African-American history. -
Frances Willard
An excellent speaker, a successful lobbyist, and an expert in pressure politics, she was a leader of the national Prohibition Party. -
Langston Huges
During the 1920s, Hughes was one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance -
Warren G Harding's Return to Normalcy
a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. -
Henry Ford
created moving assembly line for automobiles to making better cars -
Prohibition
Prohibition is the act of prohibiting the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol -
tin pan alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of music publishers and songwriters in ,new york city, who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. -
The Great Migaration
Blacks moved to the North for jobs -
1st Red Scare (1920S)
The KKK dominated the South and those who did not fit in found that they were facing the full force of the law. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Big Oil companies and bribery and corruption at the highest levels of government -
William Jennings Bryan
In 1925, he joined the prosecution in the trial of John Scopes, a Tennessee schoolteacher charged with violating state law by teaching evolution. In a famous exchange, Clarence Darrow, defending Scopes -
Clarence Darrow
was the most famous trial lawyer in the United States. He grew up in Ohio and began practicing law there in 1878, settling in Chicago, Illinois. Scopes trial -
Scopes Monkey trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 about against the theroy of -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is the belief that all personal and social problems were inherited. -
Charles Lindbergh
Lindbergh, Charles (1902-1974), made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.Lindbergh, -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. -
The Great Depression
was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world -
Stock Market Crash Black Tuesday
Alot of Business stocks Were lost and billiona of dollars were lost -
30th Amendment
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January -
Federal Reserve system
the central banking system of the United States. -
Dorothea Lange
lAmerican documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration -
Relief Recovery Reform
Relief - Immediate action taken to halt the economies deterioration. Recovery - "Pump - Priming" Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand. Reform - Permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure citizens against economic disasters. -
Dust Bowl
was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, -
TVA
TVA’s original 1933 purpose was to address the Valley's most important issues in energy, environmental stewardship and economic development -
FDR
President of the United States from 1933 to 1945 -
FDIC
The FDIC was created in 1933 in response to the thousands of bank failures that occurred in the 1920s and early 1930 -
Eleanor Roosevelt
changed the role of the first lady through her active participation in American politics. -
21st Ameendment
epealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol -
SEC
The Securities and Exchange Commission was established in 1934 to regulate the commerce in stocks, bonds, and other securities.
