Unit 5: Between the Wars | 1920s to 1930s

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  • The Harlem Renaissance

    The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that spanned the 1920s. There was an explosion of cultural, social, and artistic entertainment that took place in Harlem, New York.
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    1920s

  • Frances Willard

    Frances Willard was an American educator and women's suffragist. She became the national president of WCTU in 1879, and remained president for 19 years.
    (The Womens Temperance Movement was from 1890 to1920)

  • The Great Migration

    Many black people moved to the Northern cities in hope for better opportunities, it was practically the same. Most lived in ghettos and discrimination wasn't any different in the North.

  • Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"

    The Return to Normalcy was Warren G. Harding's promise to get things back the way they were before WWI in the 1920 election.

  • Tin Pan Alley

    The Tin Pan Alley was a music publishing and songwriting center that went through its prime in New Yourk during the 1920s.

  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow
    Clarence Darrow was a notable defense attorney. Clarence Darrow took on the case of Leopold and Loeb and was involved in the Scopes trial.

  • Marcus Gavery

    Marcus Gavery
    Marcus Gavery was involved in the “Back to Africa” Movement. He founded Universal Negro Improvement Association. Many “mainstream” blacks saw Garvey as too exuberance;

  • Langston Hughes

    James Langston was an American poet and columnist . He was partoke in the earliest stages in jazz poetry. He changed many Americans’ perception of blacks.

  • Social Darwinism

    Evolution was not allowed to teach in school and a Biologist John Scopes decided he wanted to teach it. The case went to court and Darwin lost. It was eventually allowed to be taught.

  • Scopes Monkey Trial

    Tennessee’s Butler Act prohibited teaching Darwinian evolution and a dispute with a teacher led to a case in court.

  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan was a former secretary of State and three-time presidental canidate. He was the expert witness on the Bible during The Scopes Trial.

  • Henry Ford

    Henry ford produced more cars for less money which revolutionalized the industry with the gift massproduction.

  • Charles A. Lindbergh

    Charles A. Lindbergh was an American author, inventor, and explorer. He was praised for flying from New York to Paris in 33½ hours independently.

  • Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"

    14 Billion was lost on Oct, 29 1929 when the market crashed, banks failed, and business began to lay off workers.
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    1930s