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Frances Willard
an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. -
William Jennings Bryan
served in the United States House of Representatives and as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to 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. -
Federal Reserve System
the central banking system of the United States. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan for the election of 1920. -
Prohibition & the 18th Amendment
The 18th amendment effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement." -
Langston Hughes
an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue" -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States. President Harding issued an executive order that transferred control of Teapot Dome Oil Field in Wyoming from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior -
1st Red Scare
The Scare had its origins in the hyper-nationalism of World War I as well as the Russian Revolution. -
Marcus Garvey
a proponent of Black nationalism in Jamaica and especially the United States. He was a leader of a mass movement called Pan-Africanism and he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League -
Jazz Music
The period from the end of the First World War until the start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the "Jazz Age". -
Scopes Monkey Trial
an American legal case in which a substitute high school teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
Charlie A. Lindbergh
an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. He won the Orteig Prize by making a nonstop flight from New York to Paris, France. -
Stock Market Crash
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday (October 29),[1] the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 ("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
The Relief, Recovery and Reform programs were introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
he Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men. -
21st Amendment
repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. -
20th Amendment
Moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. It also has provisions that determine what is to be done when there is no president-elect. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt directed the United States federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. -
Securities and Exchange Commission
The SEC holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s -
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. To qualify for most of these benefits, most workers pay Social Security taxes on their earnings. -
1936 Summer Olympics
an international multi-sport event that was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. It marked the second and final time the International Olympic Committee gathered to vote in a city that was bidding to host those Games. -
Clarance Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC)
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) is a wholly owned government corporation managed by the Risk Management Agency of the United States Department of Agriculture. FCIC manages the federal crop insurance program, which provides U.S. farmers and agricultural entities with crop insurance protection. -
Dust Bowl
a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
Social Darwinism
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
