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Frances Willard
Temperance was the Women's Christian Temperance union main focus. Later, due to Willard's influence, the WCTU also fought for women's suffrage. Because the outcome of the municipal elections determined whether or not liquor could be sold, Frances Willard thought it was important for women to have the right to vote -
Clarence Darrow
In 1894 he defended Eugene V. Debs, arrested on a federal charge arising from the Pullman Strike. He also secured the acquittal of labor leader William D. Haywood for assassination charges, saved Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold from the death penalty, and defended John T. Scopes -
William Jennings Bryan
became a Nebraska congressman in 1890. He starred at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley.1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Social Darwinism
coined in the late 19th century to describe the idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in "survival of the fittest. Social Darwinists typically deny that they advocate a "law of the jungle." -
Eleanor Roosevelt
She advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace, the civil rights of African Americans and Asian Americans, and the rights of World War II refugees. Most outspoken women in the white house -
Henry Ford
American automobile manufacturer who created the Ford Model T car in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the industry. As a result, Ford sold millions of cars and became a world-famous company head. -
Federal Reserve system
central bank of the United States. It was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system regulating and supervising financial institutions; serving as a banking and fiscal agent for the United States government; and supplying payments services to the public through depository institutions like banks -
Marcus Garvey
orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Garvey advanced a Pan-African philosophy which inspired a global mass movement, known as Garveyism. -
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The Great Migration
movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. Until 1910, more than 90 percent of the African-American population lived in the American South. -
1st Red Scare
World War I was ending a fear-driven, anti-communist movement known as the First Red Scare began to spread across the United States of America. In 1917 Russia had undergone the Bolshevik Revolution. The Bolsheviks established a communist government that withdrew Russian troops from the war effort. -
Prohibition
People were drinking way too much and it was bad on their parts families werent safe, people kept dying most of them were men only drinking and coming home and harassing their own family and to reduce the crime and improve the health of citizens -
Langston Hughes
He was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood. -
Warren G. Harding
He ran for president and became the 29th president and his campaign for becoming president promised a return to normalcy Harding promise was to return the United States prewar mentality, without the thought of war tainting the minds of the American people. -
Jazz Music
originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. ... Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression.Jazz has all the elements that other music has: It has melody; that's the tune of the song, the part you're most likely to remember. It has harmony, the notes that make the melody sound fuller, It has rhythm. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Albert B. Fall, who served as secretary of the interior in President Warren G. Harding's cabinet, is found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office. Fall was the first individual to be convicted of a crime committed while a presidential cabinet member.Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921 -
Scopes Monkey Trial
began in Dayton, Tennessee. High school teacher John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man. The trial was the first to be broadcasted on live radio. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
a famous aviator. In 1927 he became the first man to successfully fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. He called his airplane the Spirit of St. Louis, and his courageous feat helped make Missouri a leader in the developing world of aviation. -
Stock market crash "Black Tuesday"
stock market crash of 1929 was not the sole cause of the Great Depression, but it did act to accelerate the global economic collapse of which it was also a symptom. By 1933, nearly half of America's banks had failed, and unemployment was approaching 15 million people, or 30 percent of the workforce. -
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The great Depression
worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. It took down many farms killed kids and it was all dust and dryness for a dull decade and no one was safe in those 10 years. -
Tin Pan Alley
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, after many years, the term came to refer to the U.S. music industry in general. -
Harlem Renaissance
marked a moment when white America started recognising the intellectual contributions of Blacks and on the other hand African Americans asserted their identity intellectually and linked their struggle to that of blacks around the world and planted it was renewing the African American Heritage -
The dust Bowl
armers had basically over-aerated the soil of the Great Plains. They converted vast tracks of grassland into shallow cropland. After periods of drought, this loose soil turned to dust and was swept up into the storms that became known as ''black blizzards''. -
20th Amendment
known as the "Lame-Duck Amendment," was ratified in 1933. The 20th Amendment shortened the period of time lame duck Members of Congress could stay in office after an election had been held, from 13 months to 2 months. -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Roosevelt's basic philosophy of Keynesian economics manifested itself in what became known as the three "R's" of relief, recovery and reform. The programs created to meet these goals generated jobs and more importantly, hope and to help address the problems of all of the mass unemployment and economic crisis -
Tennessee valley authority
federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley -
Federal Deposit Insurance corporation
provide stability to the economy and the failing banking system. Officially created in the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 and modeled after the deposit insurance program initially enacted in Massachusetts, the FDIC guaranteed a specific amount of checking and savings deposits for its member banks. -
21st Amendment
The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. -
Securities and exchange commission
US Government agency, with the purpose of protecting investors from dangerous or illegal financial practices or fraud, by requiring full and accurate financial disclosure by companies offering stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other securities to the public. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd American president who led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, greatly expanding the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal. he created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to provide jobs for unemployed people. -
Dorothea Lange
an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).greatly influenced later documentary and journalistic photography. -
The new deal
Roosevelt launched a second, more aggressive series of federal programs, sometimes called the Second New Deal. In April, he created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to provide jobs for unemployed people. -
Social Security Administration
An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment