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Harlem Renissance
Flourishing of African American musical, literary, and artistic talent Centered in black district of New York city. changed many Americans' perception of blacks.the movement laid down the groundwork for all later African American literature and had an enormous impact on black literature and consciousness worldwide. -
Marcus Garvey
Was born in Jamaica in 1887. He was a proponent of Black nationalism in Jamaica and especially the United States. He was a leader of a mass movement called Pan-Africanism and he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League and the Negro World newspaper, an international shipping company called Black Star Line and the Negro Factories Corporation. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
He ran in the 1920 campaign in the election campaign "Return to Normalcy meaning he wasted everyone to return to how life was before ww1". While he was president, he tried to upgrade the economyHe believed that the government should support the business but don’t interfere with the economy -
the great migration
The migration in the south move to Northern cities for better opportunities for their lives and families, These families tended to live in ghettos. Many saw just as much discrimination in the North and wanted better for themselves and their families -
Jazz
Originated in New Orleans. Considered the only truly American music.Frequently played in speakeasies; many saw it as corrupting youth Jazz was the most popular type of music during this time and was being played and even sung live in night clubs. -
Prohibition
rom 18th Amendment they established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages by abandon alcohol and sale of alcohol illegal. In early 1933, Congress adopted a resolution proposing a 21st Amendment to the Constitution that would repeal the 18th. It was ratified by the end of that year, bringing the Prohibition era to a close. -
William Jennings Bryan
Creation of a Department of Labor, Prohibition, and woman suffrage.He won the democratic nomination.In 1896 he giving his famous speech Cross of Gold His national campaigning helped Congress pass the 18th Amendment in 1918. -
Tea pot dome scandle
scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior. Albert Bacon Fall, After Pres. Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921. -
Tin Pan Alley
Music Publishing house on New York
The center of songwriting commercial
Piano arrangements of popular songs are the music style of Tin Pan Alley. its name eventually became synonymous with American popular music in general. When these genres first became prominent, the most profitable commercial product of Tin Pan Alley was sheet music for home consumption, and songwriters -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. Prices seemed to go up for a little bit then started to go back down slipping into the Great Depression -
langston hughes
Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin,Missouri.
Hughes graduated from high school in 1920 and around that time, Hughes poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers was published in The Crisis magazine and was highly praised and became part of cultural movement known as the Harlem renaissance. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit, Michigan and was raised on a farm and a son of a lawyer. He went to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he made his first solo flight in 1923. Lindbergh became a barnstormer, or a daredevil pilot, performing at fairs and other events. He was a American aviator that rose to fame by piloting to his mono plane the Spirit of St. Louis, on the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris in 1927, -
Clarence Darrow
Famous criminal lawyer who supported the evolution Worked in "Monkey Trial". it made William Jennings Bryan appear foolish when he questioned William about the Bible Darrow defended several war protesters charged with violating state sedition laws. He saved 1924 Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold from a death sentence. In the famous trial of John T. Scopes Darrow defended a high-school teacher who had broken a state law by presenting the Darwinian theory of evolution. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
this case began with with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. .his case was about a criminal misdemeanor case. it was focus on Darwin's Theory of Evolution. William Jennings Bryan was the main prosecutor. -
Social Darwinism
he belief that only one creature survives in the political and economic battle of man. Adapting Darwin's natural selection and evolution theory to a human society to raise and improve the human race.
In the late 19th century they describe the idea that human likes animals and plants.It was very important to note that Charles Darwin was not associated with the theory of social Darwinism. -
Henry Ford
He was the most important industrialist of the 20th century, and he also introduced the Model T car, Assembly Line, $5.00 a day wage. The first car that he built was Quadric cycle In 1927, Ford introduce a new car after the Model T called the Model A, it had a range of different colors.Henry Ford bought out all minority stockholders by 1920. -
Frances willard
Be the national president of the World Woman's Christian.Temperance Union or World WCTU for 19 years.
Developed the slogan "Do everything" for the women of the WCTU to incite lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publication, and education.
She taught people about the evils of alcohol. -
1st Red Scare
the red scare refers to the fear of communism in the USA during the 1920’s. It is said that there were over 150,000 anarchists or communists in USA in 1920 alone and this represented only 0.1% of the overall population of the USA.A series of bomb explosions in 1919, including a bungled attempt to blow up A. Mitchell Palmer, America’sAttorney-General, lead to a campaign against the communists. On New Year’s Day, 1920, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison. -
The Great Depression
It was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. that lasted around 10 years. When it reached to the lowest point,15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half the country’s banks had failedBegan with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s. -
Federal Reserve System
This is the main bank of the United States. During the Great Depression over 8,000 commercial banks belonged to the Federal Reserve System. One cause for this to happen to banks was the practice of counting checks in the process of collection as part of banks cash reserves. These floating checks were counted in the reserves of two banks, the one in which the check was deposited and the one on which the check was drawn. -
Franklin D. roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term as governor of New York when he was elected as the nation’s 32nd president in 1932.. He was one of the first presidents to be in poor condition and become a president.He also started the New Deal project to help out the united states -
Doroteha Lange
Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression, During the great depression she was best know for those photos of Farm Security Administration. Pictures such as White Angel Breadline (1932), showing the desperate condition of these men, were publicly exhibited and received immediate recognition both from the public and from other photographers, especially members of of Group f.64 -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is the U.S. corporation insuring deposits in the United States against bank failure. This corporation was created to maintain public confidence and encourage stability in the financial system through the promotion of sound banking practices. -
The New Deal
A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt with the goal of ending the Great Depression. Lasting unemployment relief Roosevelt did not recognize that the Great Depression was mostly caused by the government itself, so it failed then regenerated later on. -
20th Amendment
he President's term begins on January 20th Sometimes called the lame duck amendment Set the inauguration day as January 20th.t is important because it tried to eliminate Lame Duck presidents and legislators. Before the 20th Amendment the presidential term and the congressional term both started on March 4 of the year after the election. -
Relief, Recovery and Reform
Known as the three R's were introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis. The New Deal required either immediate, temporary or permanent actions to happen immediately. -
21st amendment
The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, repealing
18th Amendment and bringing an end to the era of national prohibition of alcohol in America.some states continued Prohibition by maintaining statewide temperance laws. Mississippi, the last dry state in the Union, ended Prohibition in 1966. -
Securities and exchange commission
US federal agency established in 1934 to help protect investors by enforcing securities-related laws, and by setting mandatory standards for disclosure of financial and other pertinent information about firms whose securities are traded over a stock exchange. Its five commissioners appointed by the US President and confirmed by the Senate to serve for staggered five-year terms, and at any time no more than three of them may be from the same political party. -
The Dust Bowl
Dust storm that travel throughout the u.s and was mainly in 4 states. This storm was cause my man and the way that they were farming. Over cultivation and generally poor land management in the 1920s, and region that received an average rainfall of less than 20 inches usally suffered because they did not have any food -
Social Security Administration(SSA)
The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. This Act created a social insurance program for pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement. The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government -
Eleanor Roosevelt
She helped others who were less fortunate than her taught immigrants how to read and helped feed the poor and she also helped women to understand the issues so they could vote wisely She was helped to start the United Nations. she wrote a daily syndicated newspaper column, “My Day.” A widely sought-after speaker at political meetings and at various institutions,
