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John J. Pershing
John J. Pershing was born on September 13th 1860 in Laclede, Missouri. His family was of Alsatian origins, originally spelling their name Pfirsching.
Pershing was a general in the United States Army. He led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in WWI.
Pershing had astonashing ability to lead and he showed that he was very hardworking, as a result Pershing was nominated as brigadier genral, by president Roosevelt. This meant he skipped 3 ranks! -
Glenn Curtis
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships.
Curtiss made the first officially witnessed flight in North America, won a race at the world's first international air meet in France, and made the first long-distance flight in the United States. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR was born January 30th 1882. He was the 32nd president of The United States and was diagonosed with polio. He built a New Deal Coalition that realigned American politics after 1932. He was the president to bring America out of the Great Depression -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was born August 17, 1887. Garvey was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He founded the Black Star Line, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands. Garvey was unique in advancing a Pan-African philosophy to inspire a global mass movement and economic empowerment focusing on Africa known as Garveyism. -
Alvin York
Alvin York was born December 13 1887 in Paul Mall, Tennesee. York was one of the most decorated American soilders to have served in WWI. Before being drafted into the Army, York was considered a pacifist and had trouble training foe the war at first
York received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers, and capturing 132 others, during the United States-led portion of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. 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 -
jazz music
Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. Jazz emerged in many parts of the United States of independent popular musical styles. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, giving rise to many distinctive styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was born on February 1st 1902. Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is notably known as a leader from the Harmlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "The Negro was in Vogue", which was later paraphrased as "When Harlem was in Vogue." -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.
Lindbergh emerged suddenly from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo nonstop flight on May 20–21, 1927, made from the Roosevelt Field in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles. He was the first person to be in New York one day and in Paris the next -
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 1910 and 1970. about 1.6 million migrants left mostly rural areas to migrate to northern industrial cities; and, after a lull during the Great Depression, a Second Great Migration (1940–1970), in which 5 million or more people moved from the South, including many to California and other western states. -
Sussex Pledge
Germany attempted to appease the United States by issuing, on May 4, 1916, the Sussex pledge, which promised a change in Germany's naval warfare policy. These were the primary elements of the undertaking. -
Red Scare
A Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. The Second Red Scare was focused on national and foreign communists influencing society, infiltrating the federal government, or both. -
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. The battle was the largest in United States military history, involving 1.2 million American soldiers, and was one of a series of Allied attacks known as the Hundred Days Offensive, which brought the war to an end -
Treaty of Versailles
one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
After winning the 1920 election Warren G. Harding was running a campagin called "Return to Normalcy." Harding's promise was to return the United States to pre-world war mentality; without the thought of war tainting the minds of the American people. To sum up his points, he states, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a time of economic depression between 1930s and 1940s. Worldwide GDP fell by 15%, 1929-32. The depression originated in the United States, after the fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (known as Black Tuesday). -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. Severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon. The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939–40, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform.
