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Frances Willard
Women’s Suffragist, her influence was instrumental in the passage of the EIghteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution. -
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for the Georgist economic reform. -
William Jennings Bryan
an American orator and politician from Nebraska. In 1896, he emerged as dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party’s nominee for President of the United States. -
Henry Ford
In 1913 he created the world’s first moving assembly line for cars. Created the Ford Motor Company and built cars. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In office from 1929 to 1933 and served as Governor fro reform, promoting programs to combat the economic crisis besetting the United States at the time. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
She joined Franklin Roosevelt in touring the country making her first campaign appearances. -
Tin Pan Alley
Refers to the physical location of the New York City, centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Tin Pan Alley was the popular music publishing center of the world. -
Marcus Garvey
Black Nationalist in Jamaica as well as the United States. He was a leader of a mass movement called Pan-Africanism and he founded the UNIA-ACL. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
American pilot and the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. This flight was in 1927, it made him one of America’s early celebrity heroes. -
Langston Hughes Bryan
Was a well known writer of poetry, first poem written in 1921, poetry was later promoted by Vachel Lindsay. Published his first book on 1926. -
Federal Reserve System
Central banking system of the United States. Created December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act after a series of financial panics. -
1st Red Scare
In 1917 Russia had undergone the Bolshevik Revolution. The Bolshevik established a communist government that withdrew Russian troops from the war effort, and the U.S. was scared they would make them communist too. -
21st Amendment
Repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 16, 1919. -
Social Darwinism
The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. This came about in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy” Scandal
A return of life before World War l, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding’s campaign slogan for the election in 1920. Harding’s promise was to return the United States prewar mentality, without the thought of war tainting the minds of the American people. -
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 about 1926 to 1970 -
Harlem Renaissance
A cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920’s. During the time, it was known as the “New Negro Movement”, named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. -
Prohibition
The ban of alcohol and then alcohol coming back. Amendment 18 and 21st Amendment. -
Jazz Music
Popular dance music influenced by jazz and played in a loud rhythmic manner. -
Teapot Dome
Bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
John Thomas Scopes was a high school science teacher and was thought to be teaching evolution when it was banned for the Tennessee state law. (He lost the trial) -
Stock Market Crash “Black Tuesday”
October 29, 1929 was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States -
20th Amendment
Moved the beginning and ending of terms of the president and vice president from March 4 t0 January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. -
Dorothea Lange
Best known for her photography during the 1930’s with Roosevelt’s Farm Security Administration. -
The Dust Bowl
A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian praires during the 1930’s. -
The Great Depression
A severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930’s, originating in the United States. -
The New Deal
Series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930’s in response to the Great Depression. -
“Relief, Recovery, Reform”
Imediate relief, recover things, and make new reforms. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
An independent agency created by the U.S. Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation’s financial system by ensuring deposits, supervising financial institutions and checking the soundness of consumer protection. -
Securities & Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is an independent agency of the United States federal government. -
Social Security Administration
An independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors’ benefits. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, and electricity generation along the Tennessee River.
