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Frances Willard
inseparable from that of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), but her life embodied little of the conservatism that came to be associated with the WCTU after her death. -
Clarence Darrow
he volunteered to defend John Scopes right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago, he saved the child-killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb from the death penalty. The Scopes trial would bring him even greater notoriety. -
William Jennings Bryan
In 1925, he served as an associate counsel in the trial of John Scopes, a Tennessee instructor accused of teaching evolution in a public school. Bryan took the stand and underwent a withering cross-examination by Clarence Darrow -
Henry Ford
he established the Ford Motor Company, and five years later the company rolled out the first Model T. In order to meet overwhelming demand for the revolutionary vehicle, Ford introduced revolutionary new mass-production methods, including large production plants, the use of standardized, interchangeable parts and, in 1913, the world’s first moving assembly line for cars. -
Tin Pan Alley
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. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American "statesman" and president who served in 1933. -
Marcus Garvey
as an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. -
Dorothea Lange
Famous for her documentaries taken during the Depression-era. -
Langston Hughes
was one of the most important writers and of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood. -
Jazz Music
was the result of a melting pot of both black music, spirituals, blues gospel, white music marshes, dances like cakewalk and music from the west indies. -
Federal Reserve System
Central banking system of the US. -
The Great Migration
The relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. -
Prohibition
was important in the 1920s because it demonstrated that banning something can have the opposite effect of making it more desirable and more dangerous -
21st Amendment
Mandated nationwide prohibition of alcohol. Ratified on december 5th, 1933 -
Harlem Renaissance
was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity, influenced future generations of black writers, but it was largely ignored by the literary establishment after it waned in the 1930s. -
1st red scare
refers to the fear of communism in the USA during the 1920’s -
Warren G. Harding " Return to Normalcy"
was a 1920 United States presidential campaign slogan that helped Warren G. Harding became the 29th U.S. president, but the phrase also had an ironic significance because the 1920s were a decade of great change, not all of it positive. -
TeaPot Dome Scandal
important because it damaged the public viewpoint of the Harding administration. The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal with the oil companies in 1922 and 1923. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
a trial taken to the Supreme Court over the issue of whether teachers had the right to teach evolution in American schools. It was important because it symbolized the conflict between conservatives and modernists, and resulted in widespread growth in belief of Darwin's Theory of Evolution by calling more attention to it. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him, But Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop. -
The Great Depression
The US economy entered a large recession in the beginning of 1929 due to a huge stock market crash involving "Black Thursday" and "Black Tuesday". -
Stock Market Crash “Black Tuesday”
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
The Dust Bowl
Known as the "Dirty Thirties" was a long period of dust storms. Greatly damaged the ecology of the Great Planes in the United States. -
20th Amendment
Defines who succeeds the president. Ratified on January 23, 1933. -
TVA
"Texas Valley Authority" provides electricity, flood control, and navigation. -
The New Deal
Followed the great depression. Was a series of democratic programs. Included laws passed by congress and the president. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Politician, Diplomat, and Activist. Was the longest serving first lady of the US. -
SEC
Government service that is responsible for regulating banks and making sure no unjust deeds or transactions are being done. They monitor the money. Enforces federal security laws. -
Social Darwinism
the belief that competition was part of human evolution and poverty existed as part of the natural order of things and that the small percentage of the wealthy at the top were the more evolved class of people.