1920's and 1930's

  • Frances Willard

    American educator, reformer, and founder of the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. An excellent speaker, a successful lobbyist, and an expert in pressure politics, she was a leader of the national Prohibition Party. she died February 18, 1898.
  • Clarence Darrow

    Darrow was a lawyer who worked as defense counsel criminal trials. He was also a public speaker, debater, and miscellaneous writer.
    He died March 13, 1938.
  • William Jennings Bryan

    He was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party. he standed three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States in his time. He died July 26, 1925
  • Henry ford

    he 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 and so Ford sold millions of cars and became a world famous company head. he died April 7, 1947.
  • Social Darwinism

    Social darwinism emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s. Which it claims to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. Evolution is still going on today.
  • Franklin D.Roosevelt

    He was the 32nd president of the united States during the Great Depression. He then later died Died April 12, 1945.
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    The wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt changed the role of the first lady through her active participation in American politics.
  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey was a leader in the black nationalist movement by applying the economic ideas of Pan Africanists to the immense resources available in urban centers. He died on June 10, 1940.
  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression. She died October 11, 1965.
  • Tin Pan Alley

    Tin Pan Alley, genre of American popular music that arose in the late 19th century from the American song publishing industry centred in New York City.
  • Langston Hughes

    Mr.Hughes was an American poet, novelist, and playwright whose African American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. He then dies on May 22, 1966
  • Charles A. Lindbergh

    He died on August 26, 1974. He was a American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Lindbergh was also the first person to do it alone nonstop.
  • The Great Migration

    The Great Migration ended in 1970. It was a movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.
  • Federal Reserve System

    The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States. Its unique structure.
    A federal government agency, the Board of Governors, in Washington, D.C., and
    12 regional Reserve Banks.
  • Prohibition

    The Prohibition started in 1919 and ended in 1933. In the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
  • Harlem Renaissance

    It ended in the 1930's . Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement of the black. Its essence was summed up by critic and teacher Alain Locke in 1926 when he declared that through art, “Negro life is seizing its first chances for group expression and self determination.”
  • Warren G. harding's "Return to Normalcy"

    Return to normalcy is 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.
  • 1st Red Scare (1920s)

    The 1 red scare was 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.
  • Tea Pot dome Scandal

    The TeaPot Dome Scandal ended in 1922. The Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s involved national security, big oil companies and bribery and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the United States. It was the most serious scandal in the USA.
  • Scopes Monkey Trial

    The trial ened July 21, It is know as he State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes . It 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.
  • Jazz Music

    The start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the "Jazz Age". Jazz had become popular music in America, although older generations considered the music immoral.
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression lasted until the late 1930s. It was a world wide economic depression in which lot of the banks closed in the united states.
  • Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"

    Black Tuesday hits Wall Street as investors trade 16,410,030 shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. 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.
  • The Dust Bowl

    It is called the dust Bowl beause it was the given name to all the sand etc. Severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US
  • 20th Amendment

    A mendment that sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end. It can also be defined who succeeds the president if the president dies.
  • The New Deal

    Both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians refer to as the "3 Rs," Relief, Recovery, and Reform.
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

    It is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter. To provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee.
  • Tennessee Valley Authority

    is a 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 .
  • Federal Deposit Insurance corporation (FCIC)

    is a United States government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in US banks. The FDIC was created by the 1933 Banking Act after the Great Depression to restore trust in the American banking system.
  • 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 (SEC)

    is an agency of the United States federal government. It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry
  • Social Security Administration (SSA)

    is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.
  • Relief, Recovery, Reform

    THis are the 3 R's.