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Frances Willard
Frances graduated from Northwest Femal College in 1859 and taught at a public school until 1868. She went on a tour with a friend up to 1870. When she stopped she became president of the Evanston Collgege for Ladies. She abandoned this career to be part of the Temperance Movement. The Temperance movement worked to eleminate alcohol consumption. -
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Clarence Darrow
Darrow was a journalist and lawyer. In 1894 he defended Eugene v. Debs, arrested on a federal charge arising from the PullmanStrike. He secured theacquittal (a judgement a person is not guilty of crime that is being charged) of labor leader William D. Haywood fr assassination charges. -
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William Jennings Bryan
Bryan starred at the 1896 Democratic convetion with his Cross of Gold speech but was defeated in his bid to become US presidetn by William McKinley. He lost his bids for presidecny in 1900 and 1908. He helped Woodrow Wilson get a secure spot in the democratic presidential nomination for 1912. He served as Wilson's secretary of state until 1914. -
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford created the Ford Model T car in 1908 and developed the assembley line mode of production which revolutionized the industry. Ford sold millions of cars and became a world-famous company head. The company lost its market dominance but had a lasing impact. -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley was a nickname given to the street where music publishers worked during the years 1800 to 1953. New York had become the epicenter of songwriting and musci publishing. Publisher came together on the block of West 28th Street between Broadway and the Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
The depression worsened in the months preceding Roosevelts inauguration, March 4, 1933. Factories and farms closed, banks failed and unemployment soared. Roosevelt faced the greatest crisis in American history since the Cvil War. He immediatly took action to start his New Deal programs. He closed banks to stop the panic of those who deposited their money and set up agencies such as the AAA and the CCC. -
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Roosevelt Raised five children while ebing involved in Democratic Party politics and numerous social reform orginizations. In the White House she was one of the most active first ladies in history. She worked for political, racial, and social justice. After president roosevelts death, Eleanor was a delegate to the United Nations and continued to serves as and advocate. -
Social Drwinism
The social darwinism theory expanded the original of evolution developed by Charles Darwin, it focused on the evolution of plants and animals. It emerged in America as Herbert Spencer gained considerable support among teacher and other people. -
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Marcus Garvey
Garvey was a public speacker for the Black Nationalism and Pan- Africanism movements. He foundedthe Universal Negro Improvemnt Association and African Communities League. He also advanced a Pan-African phylosophy whish inspired a global mass movement. -
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Dorothea Lange
Dorothea was a photographer. During the great depression she photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets. He picture of the migrant workers were often presented with captions featuring the words of the workers themselves. In 1934 she deld her first exhibition and established her reputation as a skilled documentary photographer. -
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Langston Huhhes
Hughes was a poet. He attendedColumbia University but left after one year to travel. His poetry promoted Vachel Lindsay. He published his first bookf in 1926 and went on to write poems, prose and plays. -
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles rose to fameby piloting his monoplane on the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris. After the kidnap and murder of his son he moved to Europe in the 1930's and became involved with German aviation developments. Despite objection to American involvement in World War II, Charles flew 50 combat missions. -
The Great Migration
The great migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from rural South to the Nort, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970. They left their homes due to bad econimic oppotunities and segregation laws. Once they left they took advantage of the need for workers that arose during the First World War. -
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Halem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name givem to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem. This took place betweenthe end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s.During this period Harlem was a cultural center drawing black writiers, musicians, poets, etc. -
Prohibition
During the prohibitio eraalcahol was trying to be prohibited. The ratification of the 18th Amendementto the US Constitution banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of liquors. Prohibition was difficult to enforce, despite the passage of companion legislation knwon as the Volstead Act. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The teapot dome scandal involved national security big oil companies, bribary and corruption at its highest levels of the government of the Uited States. Events that led to the scandal began decades before when government and US navy officials, contemplating a new global presence. -
Jazz Music
Jazz music originated in New Orleans in the early 1900s. It began to spread throughout the country.As more employment opportunities opened up in the north, especially in chicago and the midwest, both black and white muscuians from new orleans moved to chicago. Prohibition and the advent of the speakeasy created many opportunities for musicians in small cabarets, dance halls and ballrooms. -
1st Red Scare
The red scare refers to the fear of communism in the USA during the 1920s. It is said that over 150,000 anarchists or communists in USA which was 0.1% of the overall population of the USA. Many Americans were scared of the communist especially as they had overthrown the royal family in Russia back in 1917 and murdered them the following year. -
Warren G. Harding "return to normalcy"
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Scopes Monkey Trial.
The Monkey Trial started in Tennassee when a young high school science teacher was accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennasseee state law. This law had been passed in March and made it a misdimeanor punishable by fine to teach any other theory that contridicts the story of the creation of man as taught in the bible. -
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The Great Depression
The great depression was the deepest and lonest economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. It bagan soon after stock market crash that wiped out millions ofinvestors. During those years consumer spending and investment dropped causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment -
Stock Market crash black tuesday
Black tuesday hit wall street as investors tradded 16 million shares on the new york stock exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost. Many people were trying to take their money out of the banks causing the banks to go down. -
20th Amendment
The 20th amendment sets the dates at which federal United States government elected offices end. It also defines who succeeds the president if he dies. The Vive President elect shall become Predident. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC
The FDICis an indipendent US federal executive agency designed to promote public confidence in banks and to provide insurance coverage for bank deposits up to $250,000. This corporation was established to prevnt repetition of the losses that happened during The Great Depression when banks went bankrupt and could not return the money deposited in them -
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Releif, Recovery, Reform
The releif, recovery, and refomr programs were intorduced by President Roosevelt during the Great Depression to adress the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis. Release: giving direct aid to reduce the sufferig of the poor and the unemplyed. Recovery: recovery of the economy, creating jobs and helping businesses. Reform: reform of the financial system to ease the economic crisis. -
The New Deal
The New Deal that president roosevelt had promised the American people began to shape immdeiatly after his inauguration.Based on the assumption that the power of the government was needed to get the country out of depression the first days of roosevelts administarion saw the passage of banking reforms. -
Tennesse Valley Authority TVA
President Roosevelt singed the TVA Act in 1933. Its goal was to provide for the flood control, the reforistation, agriculture and industrial development. TVA established a unique problem-solving approach to fulfilling its mission integrated resource management. -
21st Amendment
When the 21st Amendment was ratified it repealled the 18th Amendment bringing an end to the national prohibition of alcohol in America. Since prohibition was failling to enforce sobriety and costed a lot they lost their support in the early 1930s. After the repeal some states continues prohibition by maintaining statewide temperance laws. -
Securities & Exchange Comission SEC
The SEC was established to regulate the commerce in stocks. After the stock crash reflections on its cause prompted call for reform. Controls on the issuing and trading of serities were virtually nonesistant allowing for a number of frauds and other schemes. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl got its name after so many dark sand storm days. Tons of topsoil was blown off barren feilds and carried in storm clouds for hundreds of miles. The drist region of the Plains included southers Colorodo, southwest Kansas and the panhandle of Oklahoma and Texas bacme known as the Dust Bowl. Many of the storm initially started their but the whole country was affected. -
Social Security Act SSA
In 1935 President Roosevelt signs into law the SSA. This act guaranteed an income for the unemployed and retirees. The News Deal program was designed to help get America out of the Great Depression. Although it was initially desinged to combat unemployment Social Security now functions as a safety net for retirees and the disabled.
