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Frances Willard
National President of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union for nineteen years (began in 1879). "Do Everything", US educator, women suffragist, and temperance reformer. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Warren G. Harding, a corrupt individual, had the idea of "return to normalcy", which promoted limited government and staying out of european affairs. -
Federal Reserve System
reformed banking system & created the federal reserve board, overseeing a nationwide system of 12 regional reserve districts, each with its own central bank and had the power to issue paper money -
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The Great Migration
movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities -
Marcus Garvey
Created "Universal Negro Improvement Association" (shown date), promoted "Back to Africa" movement, organized black businesses, Black Cross nurses, labeled "The New Negro". -
Prohibition
18th amendment, liquor sales were prohibited. -
Tin Pan Alley
AKA- NYC music publishers and songwriters who dominated pop music from the late 1800's and early1900's. -
1st "Red Scare"
A mechanism business people used to break the backs of fledging unions. A. Mitchell Palmer set out raids -
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Social Darwinism
This was the belief that the rich were rich, and the poor were poo because nature selected them to be/live that way. -
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Harlem Renaissance
a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished -
Jazz Music
developed by blacks, form or entertainment, eventually became widely spread -
Langston Hughes
Playwright, Poet, used jazz rhythms to describe African American life, The Harlem Renaissance major figure. famous work in this time: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"(shown date) and "My People" -
Teapot Dome Scandal
(Got it's name from a naval oil reserve in Wyoming, where one of the major Harding administration scandals occurred)
Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome to private oil companies, without competitive bidding, at low rates -
Clarence Darrow
famed criminal lawyer; worked in "Monkey Trial"; made William Jennings Bryan appear foolish -
William Jennings Bryan
Joined prosecution against John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial" of 1925, took the stand as an expert on the Bible. He was made to appear foolish by criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow; five days after trial, Bryan died of a stroke (most probably from heat and stress) -
Scopes Monkey Trial
1925; teacher John Scopes on trial for teaching evolution; raised countrywide debate on whether people believed in evolution or creationism -
Henry Ford
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production of Model T's ("Tin Lizzies") -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Aviator, wanted to win prize for first nonstop transatlantic flight, internationally famous, flew alone from NY to Paris in 33.5 hours (shown date). -
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The Great Depression
Economic crisis, 1920-1930, unemployed people, began with the stock market crashing in october of 1929, and continued through most of the 1930's -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
day when prices in the stock market plunged down $10 million dollars. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
conscious of the new deal, married to FDR, most active first lady, involved with civil rights movement and birth control. -
(FDIC) Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
insured individual deposits up to $5000, decreasing the amount of bank failures and restored faith in the banks -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd president, served 4 terms, only US president to serve longer than two terms, leader during Great Depression (economic crisis) and WWII -
20th Amendment
Changes when president, vice president, senators and representatives become inaugurated. Went from March to January -
The New Deal
New laws and programs introduced by President Roosevelt, helped unemployed people get jobs and helped the economy improve during the depression -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
These were the categories into which the New Deal was split. Relief defined by the acts implemented in the area of aid to the unemployment. Recovery put forth measures that would help aid in the speedy recovery of areas hit hardest by the depression. Reform tried to recreate areas that seemed faulty -
(TVA) Tennessee Valley Authority
Created by The New Deal agency,
generates electric power and controls floods in a seven-U.S.-state region around the Tennessee River Valley,
It created many dams that provided electricity as well as jobs. -
21st Amendment
Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment; no more state and local prohibition! -
Dust Bowl
Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and New Mexico.
ruined farming, killed many people, and created lasting drought. Largest man-made natural disaster in history. -
(SEC) Security and Exchange Commission
Protected investors, listened to complaints, gave licenses and penalized fraud. regulates financial markets and investment companies; New Deal agency started to provide a public watchdog against deception and fraud in stock trading -
Dorothea Lange
US photographer, known for photos taken of rural areas during the Great Depression, the poor, and unemployed. -
(SSA) Social Security Administration
guaranteed retirement money for 65 and older, made federal system of unemployment insurance/care for dependent Moms & their children, disabled people, and public health (also created a tax on workers and employers) the money from that gave monthly pensions to the retired people.
