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Frances Willard
known for heading the womens christains temperance union 1879-1898, firt dean of women, northwest university. first women to be represented on statury hall. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
was first lady. eleanor persuaded congress to have a national teacher day. later she joined the board of NAACP. in 1939 she defies segregation laws when she sits between white and black people. in 1958 eleanor spoke at the civil rights workshops. -
tin pan alley
the name was given to the collecion of music publishers and song writers who dominated the population music in the united states in the late 19th century to the early 20th centry. the name origanally referred to a specific place called west 28th street between fifth and sixth avenue in manhattan. continued into the 1950s. -
Marcus Garvey
became a leader in the black nationalist movement by applying the economic ideas of pan- africanists to the immense resources available in urban centers. After moving to New York he found ed the Negro world newspaper, an international shipping company called Black star line and negro factories corporation. -
jazz music
jazz music influenced all parts or society. jazz music also exacerbated racial tension in the post war. not only did black people listen to jazz music but o did white people. A lot of African American people gathered in new orleans. New Orleans is where jazz music had started to come from and form. People called it their home even if they didnt live there for long. But it is the home of jazz. -
Langston Hughes
was first recoginized as an important literary figures during the 20s known a the "Harlem Renaissances" becasue of the number of emerging black writers. He was an American poet. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
made the first solo non-stop flight across the Alantic ocean in May 20-21 1927. The press named him lucky lindy and lone eagle. lindberg campaiganed against voluntary involvement in ww 2. many americans criticized him for his noninvolvement beliefs. -
The great migration
6 million African Americans from the south to cities of the north had a huge impact on the urban united states. After the post war in 1876, white supermaecy spread across the south. After World War I broke out in Europe in 1914, industrialized urban areas in the North and west faced a shortage of industrial laborers as the war put an end to the steady tide of European immigration to the United States. -
Harlem Rnaissance
the harlem renaissance was was an artistic and intellactual movement that kindeld a new black culture. A critic and and teacher Alain Locke in 1926 when he declared thorugh art "Negro life is seizing its first chance for group expressing and self determination." Harlem became the spiritual coming of age and social disillusionment to race pride. it also included visual art but excluded jazz. -
Prohibition
it started people drinking to much alcohol and people not being able to show up to work it started to get soo bad that in 1920 when the 18th amendment went into effect. the 18th amendment prohibits alcoholic beverages. -
1st red scare
after ww1 the red scare took place in the united states. a nationwide fear of communist. in the 1920s the fear seem to dissipate a fast a it began. it is said that there was 150,000 anarchists or communitst in the USA alone After the Russian Revolution there were communist found in chicago. -
tea pot dome scandal
the scandal started with the creation of naval petroleum. in Wyomming there was a tea dome named the tea dome because of the rock that was above the land. the tree oil fields were reserved by the previous president. then he leased the tea dome to Harry Sinclair's mammoth oil company. the concequences for scandal was in 1927. -
warren g. harding the retiurn to normalcy
the 29th president. he won a election promising the returnto normalcy after the hardship of world war 1. -
clerance darrow
in 1924 defended Leopold and Loeb, two teenagers accused for killing and kidnapping Bobby Franks 14, year old boy. -
william jennings bryan
william jennings bryan remained activein a veriaty or causes such as the peace of womans sufferage, prohibition and christian funamentalism. 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. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
the butler act passed in 1925 by the teneessee genral assebmly, a teacher who teaches about how man evolved from and animal while it says in the bible that we are a creation of god. john scopes is the teacher. -
Henry ford
he made his car cheap and affordable. he stuck with the modle T until 1927 when it was no longer selling good because of chevrolett advancing in technology and improving their cars while the model t remained the same. -
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the great depression
begins when the stock market crashes. stock prises continued to rise. in 1930 4 million americans people were looking for jobs but couldnt find any. later in 1931 the number of people looking for jobs had increased to 6 million. the bank runs swept the united states again in the 1931 pring and 1932 fall. in 1933 a lot of banks had closed their doors. the government didnt think they should make more jobs for people to have. -
stock market crash ' black Tuesday"
took place october 29, 1929 when price of stocks completely collapsed. it was because in the 20s real estate values was on the continuos rise. Prices on the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased continuously throughout the 20s leading up to September 3. The market closed at 381.17. This was the last time it would be this high. -
the dust bowl
the dust bowl was a bunch of dried dirt in the wind. people sufficated due to the dust bowl. It also was in texas, new mexico, oklahoma, kansas. the dust bowl happend because farmers would over farm in the soil and drought. -
20th amendment
says what what date the federal government was elected the day that their office ends. Also shows who can be the next presidant if the president dies -
FDIC
Theodore Roosevelt signed the banking act of 1933. the banking act of 1935 made FDIC permanent. Such as providing deposit money because of sufficient fnds. improve consumer confidence in the reliability. this made the middle class upset. -
21st amendment
proposed Febraury 20, 1933. this amendment ended prohibition. They realized there was more crimes done when alcohol was prohibit such as people people selling illegal alcohol. Prohibition wa a bad idea because it really didnt do anything but make people want more alcohol when they knew they couldnt have it. The 21st amendment is also known as the dry laws. -
sec
was formed in 1934 to regulate commerce in stocks and related securities. After the stock market crashed in 1929 also called reform. this orgainzation brings order out of chaos and allowed exchange over the counter markets. -
SSA
an independent government agency that adminiters social security programs. the united states social security program gets its fundings form manditory contributions. people pay social security. when people pay for social security they help pay for the older peoples retirment. Also when people get to at leats 62 the are eligable for social security benifits. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt was asked to run as a democrat for state senate. The seat has moslty been ran by republicans. He won the senate seat in 1910 and again in 1912. Roosevelt wanted to rise in politics. In 1920 Roosevelt was chosen as vice president candidate. later in 1928 he was asked to run for govener in New York. -
Dorothea Lange
she had photographed the unemployeed wandering men during the great depression. Lange exhibition was in 1934 her reputation was a skilled photographic documentary -
social Darwinism
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relief, recovery, reform
Relief - providing immediate aid to help situation, sort of like patchwork. Giving people food, money, etc.
Recovery - getting back to the state things were before the Depression, rebuilding the economy, getting people's jobs back.
Reform - changing the way the economy, government, and society operates so something like the Depression couldn't happen again.
