Unit 3 Timeline

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  • Woodrow Wilson

    Wilson was the 28th president of the USA and was in office during World War 1. He helped write the Treaty of Versailles and wrote the Fourteen Points which helped establish the League of Nations. He also helped the Allied Powers win the war. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Flappers

    Flappers are women from the 1920s who wore lot of makeup and dressed in non-traditional way. These women represented the new change in women's rights and freedom. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Fundamentalism

    Fundamentalism is the belief of the strict and literal interpretation and the Bible. Category: Religion.

  • Billy Sunday

    Billy Sunday was an American baseball player for the Chicago White Stockings and then became an Evangelist preacher.He was a known Prohibitionist. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Prohibition

    Prohibition was the law that stated that there would be no manufacturing, consuming, or selling of alcohol in the United States. The Prohibition era lasted from 1920 to 1933. Category: Domestic Policy.

  • The Eighteenth Amendment

    The Eighteenth Amendment was the banning of all alcohol in America. This is the only amendment to be repealed. Category: Domestic Policy.

  • The Harlem Renaissance

    The Harlem Renaissance was an African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem, New York City. It created music and art for African-Americans. Category: Society and Culture.

  • The Great Migration

    The Great Migration was the migration of African-Americans from the South moving to northern cities like New York City, Chicago, and Detroit. Category: Society and Culture.

  • W.E.B. Du Bois

    W.E.B. Du Bois was a civil rights activist and one of the founders of the NAACP. He helped fight for the rights and was one of the "fathers" of the Harlem Renaissance. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Louis Armstrong

    Louis Armstrong was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz. He was a big role in the creation of African American music and culture. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Warren G. Harding

    Harding was the 29th president of the USA and was in office after World War 1 ended. He believed in a strong business and government relationship. He is most famous for the Teapot Dome Scandal and his cabinet being corrupt and taking bribes. Harding died while giving a speech in 1923 leaving the presidency to Coolidge. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Marcus Garvey

    Garvey was a black nationalist from Jamaica who worked hard in the United States for African American rights. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Calvin Coolidge

    Coolidge was the 30th president of the USA and was vice president of Warren G. Harding. Coolidge helped solve the corruption in the White House after Harding died. Coolidge is best known for his quiet demeanor which gave him the nickname "Silent Cal". Category: Society and Culture.

  • The Scopes Trial

    The Scopes Trial was the trial of John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law. His defense lawyer was Clarence Darrow. Category: Politics.

  • Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, and playwright who made many contributions to the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. Category: Society and Culture.

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

    F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote the famous novel The Great Gatsby. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Charles Lindbergh

    Lindbergh was the first pilot to succeed in a transatlantic flight. He became a national hero and many Americans admired him. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Amelia Earhart

    Earhart was the first female pilot to travel across the Atlantic. Earhart disappeared while attempting to fly across the world. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Federal Reserve System

    The Federal Reserve System is the central bank of the United States. It was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. Category: Economics.

  • Hoovervilles

    Hoovervilles were shantytowns on the outskirts of cities where people would live because the had no home. They were named after Herbert Hoover because people despised the way he was handling the Great Depression. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Herbert Hoover

    Hoover was the 31st president of the USA and was the first president during the Great Depression. Hoover created acts and tariffs to try and help with the Great Depression but they ended up backfiring miserably. Hoover made the Great Depression worse in 1932. He was not re-elected due to his handling of the stock market crash. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Stock Market Crash

    The Stock Market Crash happened on October 24th, 1929. America and many other countries' economies started to crash.This day became known as Black Tuesday. Category: Economics.

  • Black Tuesday

    Black Tuesday was the day the stock market crashed and America went into the Great Depression. Category: Economics.

  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression was the era between 1929 and 1939 where America had a terrible economy and people did not have money, food, clothes, or houses. Category: Economics.

  • Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl was an area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion caused by windstorms in the early 1930s, which made many people move. Category: Geography.

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

    The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was a tariff that raised the cost of imported goods for American consumers so that they would purchase cheaper American goods.The tariff backfired when European nations put tariffs on American goods. Category: Economics.

  • Construction of the Hoover Dam

    The Construction of the Hoover Dam was an attempt Herbert Hoover made to aid the people of the Great Depression by creating jobs and a supply of water to the south-west. Category: Technology and Innovation.

  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation

    The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was a government corporation in the United States that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses. The Corporation was founded by Herbert Hoover. Category: Economics.

  • The New Deal

    The New Deal was a group of government programs and policies established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. The New Deal was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression. Category: Domestic Policy.

  • Frances Perkins

    Frances Perkins was the first woman to hold an executive department as Secretary of Labor. She played a lead role in the formation of the New Deal. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the USA and the second president to deal with the Great Depression. Roosevelt helped create the New Deal and the Second New Deal with many acts and bills to reform the nation and stabilize the economy. He helped create thing like Social Security and minimum wage. Category: Society and Culture.

  • The First Hundred Days

    The First Hundred Days was the first 100 days Franklin D. Roosevelt was in office and started working on the New Deal and social legislation. Category: Politics.

  • The Second New Deal

    The Second New Deal was the second stage of the New Deal in a flurry of activity in the spring of 1935. Category: Domestic Policy.

  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange was a photographer and chronicler of the Great Depression. She recorded many photos of jobless and homeless people. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Social Security Act

    The Social Security Act was a law passed that gave money to American citizens who are 65 years and older during the Great Depression. Category: Domestic Policy.

  • John Maynard Keynes

    John Maynard Keynes was a British economist that believed that deficit spending could provide jobs and stimulate the economy. Category: Society and Culture.

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

    The Fair Labor Standards Act established the minimum wage and the maximum hours a person could work for in a week (44 hours later changed to 40). Category: Domestic Policy.