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Charles A Lindbergh
American aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him. But Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop. -
Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933 -
Langston Hughes
One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance Hughes's was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood. His literary works helped shape American literature and politics. Hughes had a strong sense of racial pride. He promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality. -
Henry Ford
The founder of Ford Motor Company and the man largely responsible for initiating the era of mass-consumption and mass-production in the American economy. Ford's innovative business practices, including standardization, the assembly line, and high wages for workers, revolutionized American industry. -
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 -
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. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement" -
Social Darwinism
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. -
Warren G Hardin's "return to normalcy"
A promise to make life the way it was before WW1 by presidential candidate Warren G. Harding. Normalcy was listed in dictionaries as far back as 1857. -
Jazz music
It originated amongst African-Americans in New Orleans. It was the form of independence and popular music styles. People around the world have called jazz "one of America's original art forms". -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the 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
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; real events included those such as the Russian Revolution and anarchist bombings.
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Marcus Garvey
Most popular Black nationalist leader of the early-20th century, and the founder of the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). A Jamaican immigrant who rose to prominence as a soapbox orator in Harlem, New York. -
Teapot 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. -
Clarance Darrow
Darrow`s most famous case occurred in 1925 when he defended John T. Scopes, a high-school teacher accused of teaching evolutionary theory in violation of Tennessee state law. The prosecutor was William Jennings Bryan, who believed in the literal word of the Bible. Darrow also played a big part in the Sweet Case in 1925-1926. He successfully defended a black family that had used violence against a white mob that tried to force them from their home in a white area of Detroit. -
William Jennings Bryan
He joined the prosecution in the trial of John Scopes, a Tennessee schoolteacher charged with violating state law by teaching evolution. In a famous exchange, Clarence Darrow, defending Scopes, put Bryan on the witness stand and revealed his shallowness and ignorance of science and archaeology. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
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. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929, and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history. -
Dorothea
She was a photographer that humanized the causes and effect of the great depression, and influenced development of documenting photography. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was caused by several economic and agricultural factors.Severe drought hit the Midwest and Southern Great Plains in 1930. -
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. This amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933. -
21st amendment
The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 16, 1919. The Twenty-first Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933.
