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Billy Sunday
William Ashley "Billy" Sunday was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist -
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Fundamentalism
a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture. -
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Woodrow Wilson
The 28th president of the United States. -
The Federral Reserve system
Central banks of the United States, -
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The Great Migration
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The 18th Amendment
Banned manufacture , sale , and transportaion of alchol -
Flapper
Flappers were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. -
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Harlem Renaissance
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prohibition
Congress passed the volstead act over president Wilson's veto -
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Warren G, Harding
29th president of the Unites States of America. -
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Calvin Coolidge
30th president of the United States of America. -
The scopes trial
was a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, -
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Herbert Hoover
31th president of the United states of America. -
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The Great MIgration
A worldwide ecnoimic downturn, -
Stock Market Crash
Black thursday brings the roaring twenties to a screaming halt, ushering in the world wide an economic depression. -
Black Tuesday
hit wall street as investord traded some 16 million shares on the New York stock exchsnge in single day. -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers, adding considerable strain to the international economic climate of the Great Depression. -
Hoovervilles
shaketowns and homless encampments duing the Great Depression -
Dust Bowl
period of several storms that the ecology and agriculture -
Construction of Hoover Dam
concreat arch-gravity dam in the black canyon of the colorado river, on the boarder between Arizona and Navada. -
Reconstruction of finacial corporation
provide finacial aid to railroads, finacial institution, and business corporations. -
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F.D.R.
32nd president of the United States of America. -
The First Hundred Days
a sample of the first term presidency of the united states. -
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The New Deal
a series of democtatic programs enacted in the United States. -
The Second New Deal
Rossevelt adminstration uneiled legislation that would be known as a second ne deal. -
social security Act
provided a general walfare by establishing a system of federal old age benefits. -
Fair Labor standred Act
a federal statute of the United Dtaed -
Amelia Earhart
American aviation pioneer and author. ashe was also the first female aviator to fly solo accross the Atlantic ocean. -
Marcus Gravey
he believed that African Americans could and should look out for there own interests, without involvment from the white -
F.Scott Fitzgerald
American author of novels and short stories, whose work are the paradigmatic writing of the Jazz age. -
John Maynard Keynes
a british economist whose ideas have funementally affected the theory and practice of moern macroeconomics , and informed the economic policies of governments. -
W,E,B Du Bois
A key figure in the rise of Harlem, Leading voice in the African American community for many years. -
Francise perkins
she was US secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945 also the first women appointed to the U.S. cabinet. -
Dorothea Lange
America documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression era work for the farm security Adminstration. -
Langston Hughes
Another celebrateed Harlem Renaissance poet and writer, wrote of black defiance ae well, but he also wrote of hope. -
LOuis Armstrong
American jazztrumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana -
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator , author, inventor, explorer ans social activist.