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Frances Willard
American educator, reformer, and founder of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1883). -
Clarence Darrow
He defended Eugene V. Debs, arrested on a federal charge arising from the Pullman Strike. He also secured William D. Haywood for assassination charges, saved Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold from the death penalty, and defended John T. Scopes -
William Jennings Bryan
Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. He starred at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. The idea that humans, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in "survival of the fittest." -
Tin Pan Alley
the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.Tin Pan Alley is synonymous with the golden age of American song writing, when New York was the world's epicenter of composing, lyric writing, and sheet music publishing. But less known is that Tin Pan Alley was an actual place, a small section of West 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. -
Henry Ford
Was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. As the owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve system was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve was created when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law in 1913. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. Until 1910, more than 90 percent of the African-American population lived in the American South. The desire of black Southerners to escape segregation, known as Jim Crow. Rural African American Southerners believed that segregation, racism and prejudice against blacks - was significantly less in the North. -
1st Red Scare
The rounding up and deportation of immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This “scare” was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution. -
Langston Hughes
an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. A playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. He was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. -
Warren G Harding Return to Normalcy
a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan for the election of 1920. Warren G. Harding, was the 29th U.S. president -
Prohibition
the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, -
Jazz Music
The Jazz Age was a cultural period and movement that took place in America during the 1920s from which both new styles of music and dance emerged. Jazz music evolved into an integral part of American popular culture. Fashion in the 1920s was another way in which jazz music influenced popular culture. The Women's Liberation Movement was furthered by jazz music, providing means of rebellion against set standards of society. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a proponent of Black nationalism in Jamaica and especially the United States. He was a leader of a mass movement called Pan-Africanism and he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the UNIA-ACL. Garvey advanced a Pan-African philosophy which inspired a global mass movement, known as Garveyism. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
High school teacher John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man.Scopes was found guilty and fined $100. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
(1902-1974), an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him. But Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop. Lindbergh's feat gained him immediate, international fame. -
The Great Depression
The stock market crash of 1929 let to a chain of events that plunged the United States into its longest, deepest economic crisis of its history. The Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 ("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States acting as the most significant predicting indicator of the Great Depression. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Albert B. Fall, who served as secretary of the interior in President Warren G. Harding's cabinet, is found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office. Fall was the first individual to be convicted of a crime committed while a presidential cabinet member. -
Harlem Renaissance
a moment when white America started recognizing the intellectual contributions of Blacks and on the other hand African Americans asserted their identity intellectually and linked their struggle to that of blacks around the world. was an African American movement that occurred during the period of postwar America, from the end of World War I to the middle of the depression. The main aim of the Harlem Renaissance was to renew the African American heritage. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States. He was elected four times. He instituted the New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led the country during World War II. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Her portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary and journalistic photography. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most outspoken women in the White House. She married Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1905. During her husband's presidency, Eleanor gave press conferences and wrote a newspaper column. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. Caused by severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
This was introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FCIC)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is the U.S. corporation insuring deposits in the United States against bank failure.The FDIC was created to maintain public confidence and encourage stability in the financial system through the promotion of sound banking practices. -
21st Amendment
The 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed and ratified, ending national Prohibition. -
20th Amendment
The 20th Amendment is important because it tried to eliminate Lame Duck presidents and legislators. It is also important because it was not successful. Before the 20th Amendment the presidential term and the congressional term both started on March 4 of the year after the election. The 20th amendment sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end. It also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
The SEC is an independent, federal government agency responsible for protecting investors, maintaining fair and orderly functioning of securities markets, and facilitating capital formation. The SEC was designed to restore investor confidence in our capital markets by providing investors and the markets with more reliable information and clear rules of honest dealing. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a domestic program of the administration of U.S. , which took action to bring about immediate economic relief as well as reforms in industry, agriculture, finance, waterpower, labour, and housing, vastly increasing the scope of the federal government’s activities. -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
The SSA Act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.
