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Glenn Curtiss
Was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He started his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. He made the first officially witnessed flight in North America. -
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Jazz Music
Jazz music is a big part of African-American culture. For African-Americans at this time jazz music was a powerful way to express themselves.African Americans were able to maintain life's energy in the face of inhuman treatment by one group of humans, toward another group. -
The Sussex Pledge
The Sussex Pledge was a promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war. Early in 1915, Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West. During the Great Migration, African Americans began to build a new place for themselves in a public life. -
Marcus Garvey
he Daily Gleaner newspaper in Kingston published a letter written by Raphael Morgan, a Jamaican-American priest, who wrote in to protest against Garvey's lectures. Garvey's views on Jamaica, they felt, were damaging to both the reputation of their homeland and its people, enumerating several objections to Garvey's stated preference for the prejudice of the American whites over that of whites. -
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Alvin York
In 1917 Alvin was drafted into the military not knowing what was coming. In October 1918 then became a big hero by killing a macine gunner which helped 9 solders on his team capture 132 German soldiers. Also became known as most decorted soldier.. -
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John J. Pershing
Was the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I. He rejected British and French demands that American forces be integrated with their armies. -
Dorothea lange
She was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era. Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. -
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice on November 11, a total of 47 days. -
Treaty of Versailles
It was a peace treaty that ended World War 1. It also forced Germany to pay massive reparations, which led to a decline to Germany’s economy. This treaty basically led to world war 2. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Was the return back to the way of life before World War introduced by Warren G. Hardings. Alot of people didn't believe that he could do it because of all the soldiers that had died. But he believed that America just needed healing in every way. -
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The Red Scare
A Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism, used by anti-leftist proponents. There were multiple red scare in the united states. -
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The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance gave African American people and other people of African descent, a new and improved status in the society. Because they made wonderful contributions of new kind of literature in the world. -
Langston Hughes
He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form called jazz poetry. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue". -
Charles Lindbergh
He was an american aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the atlantic ocean. Other pilots have crossed the atlantic before him but Charles Lindbergh was the first to do it nonstop and alone. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression surprisingly pushed the U.S into a better economic system. Laws were set afterwards to try and prevent this from ever happening again. Also banks were more strict on how money is being used in America. -
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The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was during the great depression. When the drought hit the southern states, because of the drought all the crops got ruined which led to more depression and harsh farming land in the south. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was the President during the Great depression. He was the one that came up with the New deal. The New Deal was that it created several domestic programs for the relief, recovery and reform the economy. -
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The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between , and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during President Franklin D. Roosevelt first term.
