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Henry Ford
Creator of Ford Motor Company -
Frances Willard
Instramental influence in the passage of the 18th (prohibition) and 19th (woman suffrage) amendments. -
Clarence Darrow
An American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberites Union and advocate of the Georgist economic reform. -
William Jennings Bryan
A dominant wing in the Deomocratic Party and a 3 time candidate for President of the United States. -
Social Darwinism
Claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the United States from 1933-1945. Pulled the US out of the Great Depression -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Longest serving First Lady of the US. Holding from March 1933 - April 1945 -
Marcus Garvey
The orator of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africansim movements. -
Dorothea Lange
Documentary photographer best known for her work for the Farm Security Administration. -
Tin Pan Alley
Name given to New York City music pulishers and songwrighters that dominated the music industry in the United States -
Langston Huges
Innovator of the literary art form called "jazz poetry". Best known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance. -
Charles A. Lindebergh
Flew the distance of 3,600 statue miles in one seat monoplane. American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist. -
The Great Migration
The movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural south United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. -
Federal Reserve System
A more safe, flexible, and more stable way of running banks in the United States. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
A return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism, coined by Harding -
Jazz Music
The time period between WWI and the Great Depression which was filled with partying and loud jazz music -
First Red Scare
Widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchim in the United States due to real and imagined events -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Bribery incident in the United States during the Warren G. Harding administration -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Tennessee v. Scopes John Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which stated that it's unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. Scope was found guilty and fined $100 ($1,349 now) -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
Black Tuesday hits Wall Street as investors trade 16,410,030 shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. -
The Great Depression
Deepest and longest economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
Securities and Exchange Commission
Regulates the commerce in stocks, bonds, and other securities. -
Harlem Renaissance
A culture movemnet centered around black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars -
Tennessee Valley Authority
Adresses the most important issues in energy, environmental stewardship and development. -
The Dust Bowl
Due to the improper plantation of crops, wind would come and sweep away the crops leaving families houses covered in dirt and sand and leaving the families poor -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Preserves public confidence in banking systems by deposit -
20th Amenment
sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
Prohibition
Prohibiting the manufacturing, storage, transportaion, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol -
The New Deal
Laws and programs passed by law to get the country up and running again during and after the great depression -
21st Amendment
Repealed the 18th amendment which prohibited alcohol -
Social Security Administration
Administers social security, social insurance consisting of retirement, disability, and survivor benefits. -
Relief Recovery Reform
Roosevelts way of fixing the depression
