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Frances Willard
American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. -
clarence Darrow
leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, -
William Jennings Bryan
a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States. -
henry ford
the founder of the Ford Motor Company, -
warren d harding
29th President of the United States, -
social darwinism
modern name given to various theories of society that emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, which claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics -
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican political leader, -
tin pan alley
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. -
Langston Hughes
American poet. one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. -
Charles Lindbergh
an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist. -
1st red scare
The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. -
tea pot dome scandal
a bribery incident that took place in the United States -
scopes monkey trial
The trial of John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law. -
stock market crash
DJIA fell 12% - one of the largest one-day drops in stock market history. More than 16 million shares were traded in a panic selloff. -
prohibition
act of prohibiting the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages -
harlem renassance
the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. -
the great migration
the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
jazz music
A form of American music that grew out of African-Americans' musical traditions at the beginning of the twentieth century
