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Frances Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. -
Clarence Darrow
American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and 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
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. -
Social Darwinism
Apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the 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. -
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. -
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
A return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. -
The Great Migration
Movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. -
1st red scare
The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors, and stock tickers ran hours behind because the machinery could not handle the tremendous volume of trading. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was 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. -
20th amendment
The 20th amendment is a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. -
Federal deposit Insurance Corporation
Is a United States government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in US banks. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945. -
Prohibition
Prohibition is the act of prohibiting the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages. -
21st Amendment
Repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol. -
Security & exchange Commission
Holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States. -
The Dust Bowl
was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Relief Immediate action taken to halt the economies deterioration. Recovery "Pump - Priming" Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand. Reform permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure citizens against economic disasters. -
Social Security Administration
An independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. -
The New Deal
Was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. -
The Great Depression
The deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
jazz music
Jazz is a music genre that originated from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
