Unit 5 Key Terms

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  • Frances Willard

    And american educator, temperence reformer and womens suffragist.

  • Clarence Darrow

    American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union

  • William Jennings Bryan

    A dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party

  • Henry Ford

    The founder of the Ford Motor Company, and also the sponsor of the development of the assemnly line technique of mass production

  • Social Darwinism

    It was a name given to various theories that emerged in the United Kingdom and Western Europe in the 1870s. It applied biological concepts of natural selections and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics

  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    Married to Franklin D Roosevelt. The longest-serving First Lady of the United States.

  • Marcus Garvey

    Jamaican political leader, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism.

  • Dorothea Lange

    Influential American documentary photographer and journalist.

  • Langston Hughes

    One of the earliest innovators of then then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.

  • Charles A. Lindnergh

    American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist.

  • The Great Migration

    6 million black people were forced out of the rual Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occured between 1910 and 1970.

  • Federal Reserve System

    Centeral banking system of the United States.

  • Prohibition

    Prohibiting the manufacturing, storagre in barrels, transportation, sale.

  • Warren G. Hardings "Return to Normalcy"

    It was a way to return of life before World War I. It was part of the United States preisdential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign

  • 1st Red Scare

    Due to real and imagined event, such as the Russian Revolution and the publicly state goal of worldwide communist revolution, the United States marked a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism.

  • Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    Bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, it happened during the administraion of Preisdent Warrent G. Harding

  • Harlem Renaissance

    Between the end of World War I, there was an explosion that took place in Harlem,

  • Scopes Monkey Trial

    Also known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, was an American legal case. A substitute, John Scopes, had been accuesed of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

  • Relief, Recovery, Reform

    The 3 Rs required immediate, temporary or permanet actions and reforms

  • Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"

    All of the customers wanted their money back from their account but the bank ran out of money for everyone and the people didnt leave until someone did something about it.

  • Tin Pan Alley

    It was a name to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music in the US

  • Dust bowl

    Damaged the ecology and argiculture of the US and candian praries during the 1930s

  • 20th amendment

    Government elected offices end. Also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies.

  • Tennessee Valley Authority

    Federal own corporation in the United States which was created by the confressinal charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricty, generation and fertilizer manufacturing and economic development in the Tennessee Valley.

  • The New Deal

    Series of programs that enacted between 1933 and 1938, and some came later on.

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    Independent agency of the federal government that is responsible for insuring deposits made by individuals and companies in banks and other thrift instituions.

  • 21 Amendment

    It reapled the the 18th amendment. It mandated nationwide and prohibited alchohol.

  • Social Security Administration

    Agency of the US federal government that administers social sercuity. Insurance program that consist of retirement, disability and survivors' benefits.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    American Statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933-1945.

  • Jazz music

    Genre of music that started from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries

  • Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

    Government commission created by Congress to regulate the securities markets and to protect investors.