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Frances Willard
An American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. -
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Clarence Darrow
An American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
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William Jennings Bryan
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 (1896, 1900 and 1908). -
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Henry Ford
An American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. -
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Warren G. Harding
The 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death. -
Social Darwinism
A 19th century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social ordet is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated. -
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Tin Pan Alley
Nickname given to the street where many music publishers worked during the period of 1880 to 1953. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
An American statesman and political leader who served as the Presicent of the United States from 1933 to 1945. -
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a world-renowned advocate of liberal causes in her own right. She became an early hero of the civil rights movement, and was a lifelong advocate for the United Nations. -
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Marcus Garvey
A proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, inspiring the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement. -
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Dorothea Lange
An influential American documentary photographer and photo journalist, best known foe her Depression-era work for Farm Security Administration. -
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Langston Hughes
An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri -
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Charles A. Lindbergh
An American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist. -
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The Great Migration
The movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. -
Federal Reserve System
The central banking system of the United States consisting of 12 districts with a Federal Reserve bank in the principal commercial city of each district. -
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The Harlem Renaissance
The cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of the World War I and the middle of the 1930s. -
1st Red Scare
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, real events such as the Russian Revolution as well as the publicly stated goal of a worldwide communist revolution. -
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Prohibition
A nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
A bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
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Scopes Monkey Trial
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"
Share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression. -
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The Great Depression
The deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
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The Dust Bowl
A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. -
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The New Deal
A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. -
20th Amendment
An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1933, that abolished the December to March session of those Congressmen defeated for reelection in November. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
A corporate agency of the United States that provides electricity for business customers and local power distributers serving 9 million people in parts of seven southeastern states. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
A United States government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in US banks. -
21st Amendment
Repealed the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. -
Securities & Exchange Commission
A U.S. government agency that oversees securities transactions, sctivities of financial professionals and mutual fund trading to prevent fraud and intentional deception. -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
An independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.
