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jazz music
a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. -
John J. Pershing
graduated from West Point in 1886 and served in the Spanish-American War, the Philippines Insurrection, the Mexican Expedition and was the overall American Commander in Europe during World War I. Following the war, he served as Army Chief of Staff. -
Glenn Curtiss
An American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
Marcus Garvey
a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements to which he founded Universal Negro Improvement Assocation and African Communitites Leaque -
Alvin York
a blacksmith who was drafted into the army during WWI. While serving in the 82nd Infantry Division, he took command and captured a total of 132 German soldiers. York was promoted to the rank of sergeant and received the Congressional Medal of Honor. His heroic story was told in the film Sergeant York -
Dorothea Lange
An influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. -
Langston Hughes
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. -
Charles Lindbergh
the Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. -
The Great Migration
the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. -
Sussex Pledge
a promise given by the German Government to the United States of America in response to US demands relating to the conduct of the First World War. -
Red Scare
the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
The battle was caused because the French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, supreme commander of the Allied forces, ordered massive attacks against the Germans all along the western front. -
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. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
a failed effort to ratify the League of Nations, economic stagnation and the failing Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding ran for president on a promise to return the nation to a better sense of normalcy. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression caused bank closures and business failures and by its end, saw a lot of american unemployed. -
Harlem Renaissance
A time when the culture began to bloom during this time there was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. -
The Dust Bowl
the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. There was little rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a potentially destructive combination and dust. -
The New Deal
an unprecedented number of reforms addressing the catastrophic effects of the Great Depression designed to help the U.S.
