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Frances Willard
Willard was an important part on the road to the prohibition and women's sufferage. -
Clarence Darrow Incomplete
Clarence Darrow was known for defending the teaching of evolution in schools and revealing WJB's shallowness and ignorance for science and archaeology. -
William Jennings Bryan
WJB was know for showing his shallowness and ignorance in science and archaeology. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford invented a new way of mass production the assembly line. -
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Social Darwinism
Was the belief that the social scale was based off the "survival of the fittest". Those that were wealthy were "fit" and those that were porr were not. -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley was the street in where many music publishers worked. -
Franklin D Roosevelt
FDR was the 32nd president of the US. He got us out of the great Depression and through WWII. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife, and distant cousin of FDR. She changed the role of the First Lady and was a big civil and women's rights activist. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a seperatist black rights activist. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange is famous for photographing effects of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes is well known for his portrayals of black life in the 20s. -
Charles A Lindbergh
Chales A Lindbergh was an air pilot who was the first to fly from New York to France. -
Federal Reserve System
The FRS is America's centrral bank gives them a stable monetary and financial system. -
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the huge movements of blacks from the south to the north for social and economic reasons. -
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a period of time in which there was a growth in the expression of black culture. -
1st Red Scare
The 1st Red Scare lasted until the summer of 1920. This event was characterized by a fear of communism, socialism, and anarchism. -
Prohibition
This was the banning of producing and selling alcohol. It was lifted as part of the 21st amendment in 1933. -
Jazz Music
Jazz music was highly critizied when it became more famous in the 20's. It was known as "The Devil's Music" and was seen as a threat to classical music. -
Warren G Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
This was President Harding's campaign promise to return America to how it was before the WWI. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was an illegal transfer of oil reserve lands and an unpaid "loan" of 100,000 dollars. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Monkey Trial was a trial to see if evolution was lawful to be taught in schools. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression is the worst economical crisis in the US. It left millions unemployed and the stock market in ruins. It took about a full decade before America was out of this economic slump. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
On October 24th of 1929, the stock market completely crashed leading into the Great Depression. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs which were set to get the US out of the Great Depression and solve the dust bowl. -
20th Amendment
This amendment sets the start and end dates of offices and defines who succeeds the president should he die. -
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
This was FDR's basic philosophy of economics for his terms of presidency. All his new deal programs were based off of this. -
Tenessee Valley Authority
The TVA was created to help with the valley's problems of energy, environmental stewardship and economic development. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The FDIC was created to give some families money back when they banks they put their money in failed. -
21st Amendment
The 21st Amendment which ended the prohibition. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was part of the Central America which had a severe drought which caused farmland to deteriorate and huge dust storms to spread throuout America. -
Securities & Exchange Comission
The SEC was created to help watch over the stock market and guide it back to a stable position. -
Social Security Administration
The SSA was set up to provide some income for odler people who could not provide for themselves.
