1920's-the 1930's

By eburgos

  • Frances Willard

    Frances Willard
    -She was a big part of the Temperance Movement, whose aim was to curb or eliminate alcohol consumption in the country.
    -She became the corresponding secretary of the Chicago Woman`s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1874.
    -Willard traveled constantly to meet with other women and lecture on temperance, women`s suffrage and allied issues.

  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey
    -Marcus Garvey returned to Jamaica in 1912 and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.)
    -By 1919, Marcus Garvey and U.N.I.A. had launched the Black Star Line, a shipping company that would establish trade and commerce between Africans in America.
    -Marcus Garvey was a proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, inspiring the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement.

  • Social Darwinism

    Social Darwinism
    • is the belief that all personal and social problems were inherited.
    • inherited variations that increase the individual's ability -Darwinism was illegal to teach.

  • . Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”

    . Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
    -To return to the way of life before World War.
    - Harding promised the return of the United States prewar mentality, without the thought of war tainting the minds of the American people.
    -America's present need is not heroics, but healing

  • Prohibition & the 18th Amendment

    Prohibition & the 18th Amendment
    -Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
    -transport, and sale of alcohol though not the consumption or private possession is illegal.
    -With this people drank even more.

  • Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes
    -1921 he had published his first poem
    -He had published his first book in 1926
    -1925 Hughes poem the "Weary Blues"won first prize in the Opportunity magazine literary competition.

  • Charles A Lindbergh

    Charles A Lindbergh
    -In May 20 he was the first man to fly across the atlantic.
    -In March 1 his son was held for ransom and was later discovered that their 20 month year old was already been killed.
    - In 1938 he had received the german medal and was accused of being a Nazi sympathizer for not helping for world war 2.

  • Tin Pan Alley

    Tin Pan Alley
    -The Tin Pan Alley started in the 1885 is when a lot of music publishers moved in.
    -Some date it to the start of the Great Depression in the 1930s when the phonograph, radio, and motion pictures supplanted sheet music as the driving force of American popular music, while others consider that Tin Pan Alley continued into the 1950s.No one really knows when it started.
    -After many years, the term came to refer to the U.S. music industry in general.