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Tin Pan Alley
A name given to a collection of New York City music producers who dominated the music production in the late 19th century and early 20th century. -
Frances Willard
Became President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and played a big role in the passing of the 18th and 19th amendment. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford created and perfected the assembly line, and cut down 12 hours of work into 2 or 3. -
Federal Reserve System
A central banking system. -
Prohibition
A ban on all intoxicating beverages imported, exported, and consumed that lasted from the 1920 to 1933 -
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1st Red Scare
A fear after world war one that America was going to be bombed. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
A campaign promise that he made during the elections. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
A scandal that happened during the early 20's where oil was sold at an extremely low price and was almost stealing it. -
Harlem Renaissance
A cultural and social blow up that lasted through the beginning of the 1920's through the 1930's -
Langston Hughes
Leader of the Harlem Renaissance. -
Social Darwinism
Advocated by Herbert Spencer, and was the belief of natural selection in groups of people or subjects that are the same. Was used to justify politician choices. -
Clarence Darrow
He defended "thrill killers" for murdering a 14 year old boy. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was a supporter of prohibition and opposed darwinism and evolution which he fought in the Scoops Trial. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
A teacher was illegally teaching his class about human evolution, and he was put on trial. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
He was a very well known pilot, because he was the first pilot to successfully fly across an ocean. He flew from Long Island, New York to Paris, France. -
The Great Migration
The movement of 6 million African - Americans from the south to the more urban state in the north east. -
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The Great Depression
After the stock market crashed everyone went to take out loans for amounts of money that was outrageous and it caused all the national banks to fail -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
The most devastating stock market crash in U.S. History. -
The Dust Bowl
A period of dust storms caused by major drought in rural areas and major windstorms. -
The New Deal
One of the worst years in the great depression where at least one quarter of the population was unemployed, so the president implemented the New Deal program to try and help those people. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He repealed anti - prohibition laws. -
20th Amendment
Gives the president a limit of 2 terms each lasting 4 years. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
Provides navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economical development in the Tennessee Valley. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
A Part of the government responsible for insuring deposits make by people so the great depression won't happen. -
21st Amendment
Repealed the prohibition on alcohol. -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
A national administration that is in charge of retirement fund, benefits, and disability. -
Dorothea Lange
She was a photographer that humanized the causes and effect of the great depression, and influenced development of documenting photography. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
1st chair of the national commission on the status of women. -
Recovery, Relief, and Reform
relief helped the problems immediately, recovery healed all the "wounds", and reform created terminate programs to prevent the same thing from happening all parts of the new deal -
Securities & Exchange Commission
Is most responsible for enforcing laws. -
Marcus Harvey
Founder of the Black Star Line which encouraged he return of African's back to their native land. -
Jazz Music
