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John J. Pershing
U.S Army general who led A.E.F during WW1 -
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Glenn Curtiss
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States. Helped stabilize the U.S economy during The Great Depression. Also he was the only president to be elected 4 times -
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Marcus Garvey
Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, and entrepreneur. Wanted to move black African Americans back to Africa for the cause of Black Nationalism.
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Alvin York
Once a sworn christian, who got drafted into U.S Army and captured 136 german soldiers -
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Dorothea Lange
American activist . She fought for people labled insane, and she contributed to the creation of American mental asylums -
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Jazz music
The beggining of a black cultural art or style of music that swept the nation in the 1900's, and has continued to influence mordern day culture -
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Langston Hughes
Jazz poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist -
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Charles Lindbergh
Aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
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The Great Migration
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Sussex Pledge
A promise made by Germany to U.S to change their naval and submarine policy -
Treaty of Versailles
Peace treaty ending WW1 -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
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The Great Depression
Deepest economic crisis U.S has ever expierened -
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The New Deal
A series of domestic that tried to put people to work. -
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Dust Bowl
During The Great Depression, people in the Great Plains region were expieriencing severe condition of constant dust storms covering land, killing children, and creating dirty lifestyles. -
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Red Scare
Sort of a Salem witch trails scare that involved the fearful idea of communism. many journalist, writers, and etc who had different ways of thinking from custom belief were marked as communists, so they would lose thier jobs
