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Frances Willard
Frances was an temperance reformer,women suffragist, and an american educator.Her influence was instrumental in passage of the eighteenth and nineteenth amendments to the US constitution.She was also the founder of the Worlds Woman's Temperance Union. -
William Jennings Bryan
William became a Nebraska congressman in 1890. He started at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley. ost his subsequent bids for the presidency in 1900 and 1908, using the years between to run a newspaper and tour as a public speaker. After helping Woodrow Wilson secure the Democratic presidential nomination for 1912, he served as Wilson’s secretary of state until 1914. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford created the Ford Model T car in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the industry. As a result, Ford sold millions of cars and became a world-famous company head. -
Jazz Music
A music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues. Jazz exploded during the prohibition era. -
The Great Migration
he Great Migration was 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. It had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. It represents the largest internal movement of any group in American history. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The story of the Tennessee Valley Authority starts with Muscle Shoals, a stretch of the Tennessee River where the river drops 140 feet in 30 miles. The drop in elevation created the rapids or "shoals" that the area is named for and made passage farther upstream impossible. The federal government got the land in 1916, with the intentions of constructing a dam that would generate electricity needed to produce explosives for the World War I effort, but the war ended without it being built. -
1st Red Scare
A nationwide fear of communists, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents suddenly grabbed the American psyche in 1919 following a series of anarchist bombings. This fear became an almost reality after WW1. Innocent people were jailed for expressing their views, civil liberties were ignored and that’s when things got real. -
Tin Pan Alley
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. The origins of the name "Tin Pan Alley" are unclear till today. -
Langston Hughes
Langston was one of the most important thinkers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American movement in the 1920s that celebrated culture and Black life.His literary works helped shape American literature and politics. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
When the troops return back home from WW1, they had to return to going back to a “normal” life. It was a speech that ultimately lead to a nickname for his campaign for the 1920 presidential election. Harding used the promise of bringing normalcy back to the country as his main goal -
Marcus Garvey
During World War I and the 1920s, his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was the largest black secular organization in African-American history. Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
It was the most serious scandal in the country’s history scandal began a while before when government and officials, were contemplating for something new, and then realized they needed a fuel supply that was more reliable and more portable than coal. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was among the first attorneys to be called a "labor lawyer." He also was known for defending teenaged thrill killers Leopold and Loeb, and John T. Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial -
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity. “Negro life is seizing its first chances for group expression and self determination.”- Alain Locke -
Scopes Monkey Trial
John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. The law, which had been passed in March, made it a misdemeanor punishable by fine to “teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.” -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles completed the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Other Pilots crossed it before him, but he did it alone without stopping. It was 33 hour trip from New York to Paris. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
As first lady, Eleanor traveled across the United States, acting as her husband’s eyes and ears and reporting back to him after she visited government institutions and programs and numerous other facilities. She was an early champion of civil rights for African Americans, as well as an advocate for women, American workers, the poor and young people. She supported government-funded programs for artists and writers. -
Stock Market Crash “Black Tuesday”
October 24, 1929 the “most devastating” stock market crash in the history of the United States. Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 the fall began. A record 12,894,650 shares were traded that day. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression started shortly after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and it wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output. The unemployment rate increased rapidly because companies had to lay off workers. -
Prohibition
18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution–which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors. Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages. -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. This bank too a big hit when the Great Depression was going on, because The federal reserve coordinates all regulatory activities and examines banks periodically. The FRS did NOT work well because the 12 regional banks each acted independently -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
With the country in the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt immediately wanted to restore public confidence. He would speak directly to the public in a series of radio broadcasts or “fireside chats.” His ambitious slate of New Deal programs redefined the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. -
20th Amendment
The 20th amendment is a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end. It also defines who replaces the president if the president dies. -
The New Deal
When Franklin Roosevelt took office, he acted swiftly to try and stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. Over the next eight years, the government instituted a series of experimental projects and programs, known collectively as the New Deal, that aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity to many Americans. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The corporation was established to prevent a repetition of the losses that occurred during the Great Depression when bankrupt banks could not return the money back to the people. The FDIC provides coverage for deposits in national banks, in state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System, and in other qualified state banks. -
21st Amendment
The 21st amendment was an a terrible attempt and huge failure of prohibition, which led to people disrespecting the law and criminals to do well selling illegal alcohol to those that wanted it. Repealing the 18th amendment didn’t make alcohol completely legal through the entire country. Many states decided to keep anti-alcohol laws for a long time after the 21st amendment. -
Dorothea Lange
During the Great Depression, Lange photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets. Her photographs of migrant workers were often presented with captions featuring the words of the workers themselves. Lange’s first exhibition established her reputation as a skilled documentary photographer. -
The Dust Bowl
The name was given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. Most early settlers used the land for livestock until agricultural mechanization and with the high grain prices during World War I pushed farmers to farm more acres of natural grass cover to plant wheat rather than to have for livestock. -
“Relief, Recovery, Reform”
They were known as the 'Three R's'. They were introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis. The many Relief, Recovery and Reform programs were initiated by a series of laws that were passed between 1933 and 1938. -
Social Security Administration (SSA): 1940-1947
The Social Security Special Benefits for qualified WWII Veterans benefits are a federally funded program administered by the U.S. SSA that can be paid to certain World War II Veterans. These include Veterans who served in the active U.S. military from September 16, 1940 through July 24, 1947. -
Social Darwinism
“Survival of the fittest” The theory that persons, groups, and races are subject to the same laws of a natural selection as Charles Darwin had perceived in plants and animals in nature. a belief that the strongest or fittest should survive and flourish in society while the weak and unfit should be allowed to die.
