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Frances Willard
was an american educator, temperence reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the 18th and 19th amendments to the United States Constutution. -
Clarence Darrow
An american lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union he was among the first attorneys to be called a "labor lawyer" -
William Jennings Bryan
An American orator and politican from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic party, standing three times as the Part's candidatefor presdient of the United States. -
Henry Ford
An American industrialist, the founder of of the FORD motor company, and the sponsor of the develompent of the assembly line technique of mass production. -
Marcus Garvey
Jamican born black nationalist who found the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the 1920's to encouarge self-help amomg blacks. -
Jazz Music
A form of music that grew out of African Americans musical traditions at the beginning of the 20th centry. -
Langston Hughes
An american poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columinst from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innvotars of then new literary art form called jazz.hughes is a best known leader of the Renissance. -
Charles A. lindbergh
nicknamed slim, lucky lindy, and the Lone Eagle was an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural southern United States to the Urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occured between 1910-1970 -
1st Red Scare (1920s)
The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. -
Prohibition
The action of forbidding something. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and arctisic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York. During the time it was known for as the "New Negro Movement" -
social darwinism
the theory that indviduals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largerly discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -
Tin Pan Alley
that is the name given to the collection of the New York music Publishers and song writers who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 2oth century. -
Warren G. Hardings "Return to Normalcy"
A political leader of the late nineteeth and early twentieth centuries, who served as presdient from 1921-1923. -
Tea pot Dome Scandal
It was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The trial of John Scopes a high school teacher in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law. -
The Great Depression
A long or severe recession in an economy or market. -
"Black Friday"
The wall street crash of 1929 also known as Black Friday it was the most devasting day stock market crash in the history of the United States. -
The Dust Bowl
An area of land where vegatation has been lost and soil reduced to dust eroded, especially as a consquence of drought or unsutiable farming practice. -
20th amendment
It sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. In also defines who succeds the presdient dies. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
The programs were in response to the great depression, and focused on what historians refer to as the 3 "R's" Relief, Recovery, and Reform. For the unemployed and poor. -
Tennessee Valley Authroity (TVA)
it is a federal agency that controls the electrcity, irrigation and flood control from the dams and resorviors along the tennessee river. -
The New Deal
It was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 and a few that came later. -
21st amendment
The 21st amendment to the United States Constution, which had mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol January 17, 1920. -
Securities & exchange Commision (SEC)
A government commision created by the congress to regulate the securties markets and protect investors. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Was a democrat and his package of federally supported public works and social programs was known collectively as the New Deal. -
Eleanor Rossevelet
she was the wife of Presdient Franklin D roosevelet and a world renowed advocate of liberal causes in her own right. She became an early hero of the civil rights movement, and was a lifelong advocate of the United States -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an influental American documentray photographer and photojournalist best known for her Deprission era work for the farm security adminstration -
Social Security Adminstration (SSA)
It is an indepedent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disablity, and surviors benefits. -
Federal Reserve System
"the fed" is the central banl of the United States. It was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and finacial system. -
federal Deposit Insurance Corpuration (FCIC)
is an indepdent agency of the United States (U.S.) federal government that preserves public confidence in the banking system by insuring deposits.
