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Frances Willard
Frances Willard promoted the cause of women and reform as a pioneer educator and as the most prominent leader of the nineteenth century movement to end alcohol abuse. In 1878, Willard won the presidency of the Illinois WCTU. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the migration of African Americans in the south to go north or mid west in 1910-1960. African americans were eager to work for low wages because it was still better then south wages, so this made white people angry because they were being undercut. The Great depression ended the Great Migration, because blacks were being laid off, later when WWII came they would come back to the factories. -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System was created by Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. On December 23, 1913 President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law. -
Henry Ford
In December 1915, Ford traveled to Norway as the head of a “Peace Party" to try to end World War I. He paid for the expenses of about 150 men and women traveling on the “Peace Trip." The trip did not have the approval of the U.S. Government and the group broke up afterward. Ford wanted to make the effort because he was opposed to the United States taking part in World War I. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement. On May 9, 1916 Marcus Garvey held his first public lecture in New York. -
1st Red Scare (1920s)
The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. But what exactly caused the Red Scare?1917 Russian revolution inspired post war anti capitalist protests in the US. Anarchists started to distribute pamphlets calling for revolution. In 1919 60,000 people take part in a general strike in Seattle. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism, was used during the latter time of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century as a biological justification to further the aims of laissez-faire capitalism, control, eugenics, colonialism, immigration and, in one its most extreme applications. "Survival of the Fittest." -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
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. -
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance was a 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 Haarlem Renaissance was surrounded by drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. 1920s-30s. -
Jazz Music
The War had an enormous effect on the development of jazz music. It had a role to play in the American war effort. In the 1930s a new form of jazz had emerged, called "swing." Swing music was very large bands, fixed, usually written arrangements, and solos by individual musicians instead of group improvisation. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Tea Pot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Leases for oil productions were given at low rates without competitive biding. -
Williams Jennings Bryan
In 1925, he joined the prosecution in the trial of John Scopes, a teacher that was charged with violating state law by teaching evolution. Clarence Darrow, defending Scopes, put Bryan on the witness stand and revealed his shallowness and ignorance of science and archaeology. Bryan died soon after the trial ended. -
Clarence Darrow
After World War I, Darrow defended war protesters charged with violating state sedition laws. He saved Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold from a death sentence for the murder of 14-year-old Robert Franks in Chicago. In the famous trial of John T. Scopes at Dayton, Tennessee (July 10–21, 1925), Darrow defended a high school teacher who had broken a state law by presenting the Darwinian theory of evolution. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Monkey Trial was an American legal case in 1925, a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funded school. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he purposely incriminated himself so that the case could have a defendant. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh is an American aviator. He made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Although other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him, Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop. -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Relief, Recovery and Reform was introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
The Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday" was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. Basically what happened was that business in the country was slowing down, and the economy had stalled, but investors kept pouring money into the stock market. On Black Tuesday, the bubble burst, causing bank panics and sending the U.S. into an economic downward spiral that became the Great Depression. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the longest lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world, it lasted from 1929-1939 that is 10 years. The Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley was a name given to the New York City music publishers and songwriters who took over the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The term suggests the tinny quality of the cheap, over abused pianos in the song publishers' offices. -
20th Amendment
The 20th Amendment set the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. This amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected as the nation’s 32nd president in 1932.The country was stuck on the Great Depression, Roosevelt immediately acted to restore public confidence, proclaiming a bank holiday and speaking directly to the public in a series of radio broadcasts or “fireside chats.” He was even elected four times !!! -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a program to fight economic depression enacted a number of social insurance measures and used government spending to stimulate the economy. It increased power of the state and the state's intervention in U.S. social and economic life. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
The purpose is to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley. The TVA had many setbacks and failures and was involved in many controversies, but it brought electricity to thousands of people for an affordable price. It controlled the flood waters of the Tennessee River and improved navigation, as well as introduced modern agriculture techniques. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was created in the Glass Steagall Act of 1933 and modeled after the deposit insurance program started in Massachusetts, the FDIC guaranteed a specific amount of checking and savings deposits for its member banks. The purpose was to provide stability to the economy and the failing banking system. -
Prohibition
Prohibition was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. In October 1919, Congress passed the National Prohibition Act and ended December 5, 1933. -
21st Amendment
The 21st Amendment was an acknowledgement to the failure of prohibition, which led to people disrespecting the law and criminals to selling illegal alcohol to those that wanted it. It was a repeal of Eighteenth Amendment the state and local prohibition no longer required by law. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was a leader and involved in numerous humanitarian causes throughout her life. She worked to make it easier for refugees from Hitler's Germany to enter the country, but there was stiff resistance to changing America's strict immigration laws. When the Great Depression occurred, she set up food lines to help those without jobs. -
Securities & Exchange Commission
The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. What led to this ? After the October 29, 1929, stock market crash, reflections on its cause prompted calls for reform. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by a drought in 1930s. The high winds that occurred on the plains picked up the topsoil and created the massive dust storms. -
Social Security Administration
Social Security Administration is a social insurance program that consist of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. It's purpose is to make more provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She is best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. On June 1, 1941 she was awarded for her outstanding work. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance. It was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. He was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a African American neighborhood. On March 26, 1953 Hughes was questioned by McCarthy for his involvement with communism.
