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Invented by Guglielmo Marconi, the wireless telegraphy which eventually evolved into consumer radio in 1920s in which long-distance broadcasting allowed for national networks.
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Flew and designed the first planes, Kitty Hawk was the place of the first successful flight.
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Founded by Marcus Garvey to promote resettlement of American blacks in African homeland, sponsored stores and business to make money, but many efforts failed financially, and helped to inspire blacks to gain self-confidence and self-reliance.
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Black populations expanded to white neighborhoods, and found jobs as strikebreakers, and they were triggered by an indecent at a beach lead to black and white gangs killing fifteen whites and 23 blacks.
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It was a union of skilled iron and steel workers which was deeply committed to craft unionism.
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It marked a moment when white America started recognizing the intellectual contributions of Blacks and on the other hand African Americans asserted their identity intellectually and linked their struggle to that of blacks.
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Jazz musician originating from Harlem Renaissance, arguing for a "New Negro" who had equality.
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American poet and novelist; A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, McKay is best remembered for his poems treating racial themes.
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The amendment to the United States Constitution that prohibited the manufacture, sale, distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages; it is the only amendment to have ever been rejected by the American public and repealed.
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This term came to symbolize, to powerful businessmen, the immediate abandonment of the foreign and domestic policies of Wilson, which meant a return to high protective tariffs and a reduction in taxes.
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Established prohibition in the United States.
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His campaign slogan was "A Return to Normalcy," appointed group known as the "Ohio gang" (his longtime allies/contributors) to important positions in DC, where they caused much corruption (Teapot Dome Scandal), established the Veteran's Bureau and the Bureau of the Budget (now called the Office of Management and Budget).
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The ultimate indictment of the modern world's loss of personal, moral, and spiritual values.
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It gave “associations” of persons producing agricultural products certain exemptions from antitrust laws.
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The Immigration Act made permanent the basic limitations on immigration into the United States established in 1921 and modified the National Origins Formula established then.
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A hopeful look at the negro in America.
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His novel "The Great Gatsby" is considered a masterpiece about a gangster's pursuit of an unattainable rich girl.
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John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school and was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later.
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Rugged, cheap, relatively reliable car that was popular but also joked about and very popular.
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The board would help farmers stabilize prices by holding surplus grain and cotton in storage.
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Triggered collapse of world economy, stock market speculation, heavy borrowing, highly unstable financial situation, plummeting stock prices, bank closures, world trade and industrial production dropped, unemployment; currencies devalued, protective tariffs and quotas. U.S. Congress deny new loans
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A consumer panic in the stock market that is said to allegedly be the main cause of the Great Depression.
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A form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
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A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies.
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Imported goods went from about 30% to almost 50%(tariffs).
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He was the first American to receive a Nobel Prize for literature.
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Designed to give out loans to banks, railroads, and monopolistic companies in order to pump money back into the economy during the years of the Depression.
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It banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers joining trade unions.
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Intended to let federal authorities step in and pursue kidnappers once they had crossed state lines with their victim.
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The name for an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.
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An Act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking, and for other purposes.
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A public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men.
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Purpose was initially to distribute 500 million dollars in federal funds to state agencies and helped provide work for over 20 million people.
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An Act to relieve the existing national economic emergency by increasing agricultural purchasing power, to raise revenue for extraordinary expenses incurred by reason of such emergency, to provide emergency relief with respect to agricultural indebtedness, to provide for the orderly liquidation of joint-stock land banks, and for other purposes.
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Was to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley.
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The first major federal legislation to regulate the offer and sale of securities.
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An Act to encourage national industrial recovery, to foster fair competition, and to provide for the construction of certain useful publics and for other purposes.
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The Civilian Conservation Corps opens the first soil erosion control camp in Clayton County, Alabama and by September there will be 161 soil erosion camps.
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It repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol.
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The FHA sets standards for construction and underwriting and insures loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building.
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A short-lived U.S. job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression to rapidly create manual labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers.
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The legislation was designed to help investors feel more comfortable about putting their money back into the stock market.
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Roosevelt launched a second, more aggressive series of federal programs, sometimes called the Second New Deal.
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Was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
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Focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25.
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A system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
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Written in "black vernacular" and criticized for harsh portrayal of black males is nevertheless regarded as the classic novel about the struggles of being female and African-American in America
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To prohibit the movement in interstate commerce of adulterated and misbranded food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics, and for other purposes.
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It built large-scale public works such as dams, bridges, hospitals, and schools.
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It allowed Chinese immigration for the first time since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and permitted some Chinese immigrants already residing in the country to become naturalized citizens.
