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Henry Ford
American Industrialist and the founder of Ford Motor company -
Frances Willard
founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union -
Langston Hughes
African American Poet -
Federal Reserve System
provides nation with safer, more flexible finacial system. -
Marcus Garvey
founded the Negro World Newspaper -
1st Red Scare
Worldwide communist revolution that spreded across the country -
Tin Pan Alley
Genre of American popular music. The phrase referred to the sound of pianos furiously pounded by the so called song pluggers -
Jazz music
Evolution of music from African Americans -
Social Darwinism
Theory that persons, groups, races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin had perceived in plants and animals in natura. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was a congressman. -
Prohibition
progibiting all alcohol consumptions to all americans. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalacy"
weary from fighting a world war and disillusioned by the failure of wilson's plans to create a new world -
The great migration
Mass movement of about 5 million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960 -
Clarence Darrow
1 of the most famous trial attorney -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
A bribery scandel for oil. -
Scopes Monkey Trail
A Highschool teacher was accused of teaching evolution which was against tennesse law. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
He mad the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
used to help unemployed/ poor people due to tough economic times -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
Hit wall street investors traded 16 million shares on the New York stock exchange -
Harlem Renaissance
Happened toward the end of WW1. It drew in black writers, artists, musicians, poets and scholars -
The Dust Bowl
Dust stormed that formed because of tilting the ground too much -
Social Security Administratioj
social security protection -
Tennessee Vally Authority
created dams to generate electrical power -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
created because of bank crisis -
20th Amendment
Defines who succeeds the president when he dies -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Served president for 12 years -
The Great Depression
economic depression. -
Securities & Exchange Commission
oversees securitiy transaction -
21 admendment
prohibition -
The New Deal
programs enacted because of FDR because of the great depression -
Eleanor Roosevelt
longest 1st lady in the white house -
Dorothea Lannge
Documentary photographer and photojournalist known for her depression era work for Farm Security
