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Frances Willard
Frances Willard was an American teacher and the founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1883. She was also a leader for the national Prohibition Party. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was a defense lawyer for many big cases. He once defended Eugene V. Debs for the Pullman Strike. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan is a Congressman and a former Secretary of State, three-time presidential canidate and an "expert witness" on the Bibil. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford is the founder of Ford Motor Company. He introduced mass production techniques to the auto industry. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is used to discuss survival of the fittest and natural selection to the society. -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley was the nickname given to a street where many music artists made their music. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a speaker for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Americanism movements and was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was a photographer that took pictures of homeless and unemployed men. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an African American poet, that wrote many poems and many plays. He wrote on for Chicago Defender. -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System was put in place after the Great Depression to ensure that in case of a disaster, citizens would be able to keep their money. -
The Great Migration
The Great migration was when 6 billion African Americans migrated North from 1915 to 1970 because of segregation and being mistreated. -
1st Red Scare
This began by Russia's Bolshevik Revolution. Nativism was also one of the leads to this. The Red Scare was the fear of a communist revolution in the U.S. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was apart of the Roaring 20's. It introduced dancing, nightclubs, more gambling and jazz music. -
Prohibition
Prohibition is the banning of alcohol. Women were for prohibition because alcohol was ruining their families. Most men would spend their whole paychecks and all day as bars or speakeasies. -
Jazz Music
Jazz is a music genre that did not appear until the Harlem Renaissance. Blues and jazz also are related. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Warren G. Harding was a rupublican that ran for president and wont because he promised a "Return to Normalcy". -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Tea Pot Dome was a naval oil reserve in Wyoming. Reserves were sold to private companies illegally. The interior Secretary zfall was found guilty of accepting bribes. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Monkey Trial was when Darwinism was made illegal to teach and the ACLU said that they would defend anyone who who taught it. John Scopes taught it and was arrested. He was found guility in nine minutes. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator, that made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the longest, ecconomic drought in history. There was a drop in farm prices, an increase in "great riich quick" schemes, overextension of credit and many more things. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
THe stock market crashed on October 29, 1929 when 16,410,030 stocks were traded in one day. This resulted in people losing billions of dollars, getting rid of thousands of investors. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States. He lost the election in 1920 for vice president. He was paralyzed in 1921 from polio. -
20th Amendment
The 20th Amendment moved the date that the president and Congress could start and finish terms. -
"Relief, Recovery, Refrom"
"Relief, Rovery, Reform" were the three different aspects that FDR used in the New Deal. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was FDR's nickname for his project for citizens across the world. His main three points that he wanted to target were: relief, rocovery and reform. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The Tennessee Valley Authority was one of the organizations made during the first 100 days of the New Deal. They were established to control floods and improve living conditions. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FCIC)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corportation was an act created after the New Deal. It was made to restore trust in the banking system. -
21st Amendment
The 21st Amendment was passed in 1933 to end Prohibition. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
The SEC was created through an act made 1933 and an act made in 1934. It required the laws to be truthful in sales and treat their investors fair. It was to made the market stable and protect investors. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was the over-cultivation of the land in the Great Plains, that caused a long drought and left more than 500,000 people homeless. -
Social Security Administartion (SSA)
The SSA was an organization made to give benefits to those who have retired, disability. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of Franklin delano Roosevelt. She was aslo the niece of Teddy Roosevelt.
