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1st Red Scare
The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events. Concerns over the effects of radical political agitation in American society and the alleged spread of communism and anarchism in the American labor movement fueled a general sense of paranoia. The hight of this event was in the year of 1920. -
Langston Hughes
He was an African-American poet, novelist and playwright. During the 1920's he was one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance. An explosion of black cultural vitality that sprang up in the African-American enclave of Harlem, New York. -
Prohibition
During Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. But this just led to "speakeasies" and other underground drinking establishments. More and more speakeasies were created with every year that passed. -
The Great Migration
, many blacks ended up creating their own cities within big cities, fostering the growth of a new urban African-American culture. The most prominent example was Harlem in New York City, a formerly all-white neighborhood that by the 1920s housed some 200,000 African Americans. -
Social Darwinism
During the 1920s and 1930s many political observers blamed it for contributing to German militarism and the rise of Nazism (see National Socialism). During this same period, advances in anthropology also discredited social Darwinism. German American anthropologist Franz Boas and American anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict showed that human culture sets people apart from animals. -
Tin Pan Alley
This 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 1920s.
This was a street where most of the famous songwriters and publishers had their offices. -
Marcus Garvey
Was a civil right activist. He spoke in front of a crown of 25,000 people from all over the world of having pride in African history and culture. -
Frances Willard
Known for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She got the 19th amendment passed, which gave Women the right to vote -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Return to normalcy, is a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Harlem Renaissance
During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. The Movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States affected by the Great Migration (African American),[1] of which Harlem was the largest. The Harlem Renaissance was considered to be a rebirth of African American arts. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called “Monkey Trial” begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. -
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan actively lobbied for state laws banning public schools from teaching evolution. The legislatures of several Southern states proved more receptive to his anti-evolution message than the Presbyterian Church had been, and passed such laws after Bryan addressed them. A prominent example was the Butler Act of 1925, which made it unlawful in Tennessee to teach that mankind evolved from lower life forms -
Clarence Darrow
In 1925, when he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago, he saved the child-killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb from the death penalty. -
Henry Ford
was one of America's greatest businessmen, the founder of Ford Motor Company and the man largely responsible for initiating the era of mass-consumption and mass-production in the American economy. Ford's innovative business practices, including standardization, the assembly line, and high wages for workers, revolutionized American industry.In 1927, Ford moved production to a massive industrial complex he had built along the banks of the River Rouge in Dearborn, Michigan. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Known for the first Solo Transatlantic Flight. This flight did the distance between New York and Paris non-stop. -
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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". Jazz had become popular music in America, although older generations considered the music immoral and threatening to old cultural values. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; however, in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
Panic set in, on October 24—Black Thursday—a record 12,894,650 shares were traded. Investment companies and leading bankers attempted to stabilize the market by buying up great blocks of shares. But Monday, the market went into free fall. Black Monday was followed by Black Tuesday, in which stock prices collapsed completely. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt wins the presidential election with 472 votes, over Herbert Hoover. -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
During President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first 100 days as a president, he presented "Relief, Recovery, Reform". This was to help America recover from the Great Depression.- Relief was aimed at providing temporary help to suffering and unemployed Americans.
- Recovery was designed to help the economy bounce back from depression.
- Reforms targeted the causes of the depression and sought to prevent a crisis like it from happening again.
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20th amendment
During the 1920s and 1930s many political observers blamed it for contributing to German militarism and the rise of Nazism (see National Socialism). During this same period, advances in anthropology also discredited social Darwinism. German American anthropologist Franz Boas and American anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict showed that human culture sets people apart from animals. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of the U.S. and was a leader in her own right and involved in numerous humanitarian causes throughout her life. -
The New Deal
Franklin Roosevelt tried 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. -
The Federal Reserve System (Bank Holiday)
From 1929-1933 the US banking system experienced a lot of criseses, but this hit the bottom in March 1933. when the commercial banking system collapsed and President Roosevelt declared a national banking holiday. Because of this every bank, including the Federal Reserve System, was down for 8 days. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
a United States government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in US banks. The FDIC was created by the 1933 Banking Act after the Great Depression to restore trust in the American banking system; more than one-third of banks failed in the years before the FDIC's creation, and bank runs were common. -
21th Amendment
The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. -
Securities and Exchange commission
A government commission created by Congress to regulate the securities markets and protect investors. In addition to regulation and protection, it also monitors the corporate takeovers in the U.S. -
Social Security Administration
an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. -
The Dust Bowl
In mid-afternoon, the temperature dropped and birds began chattering nervously. Suddenly, a huge black cloud appeared on the horizon, approaching fast.The storm on Black Sunday was the last major dust storm of the year, and the damage it caused was not calculated for months. Coming on the heels of a stormy season, the April 14 storm hit as many others had, only harder -
Dorothea Lange
From 1935 to 1939, Dorothea Lange's work for the RA and FSA brought the plight of the poor and forgotten – particularly sharecroppers, displaced farm families, and migrant workers – to public attention. Distributed free to newspapers across the country, her poignant images became icons of the era.
