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21st Amendment
Repealed the 18th amendment. It mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol. -
Frances Willard
Amerian educator, temperance reformer and women's suffragist. "Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the 18th & 19th amendments.
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Clarence Darrow
American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
William Jennings Bryan
American orator and politican from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for the President of the United States -
Henry Ford
American Industrialist, he was the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and also the sponsor of the development of the assemnly line technique of mass production -
Social Darwinism
It was a name given to various theories that emerged in the United Kingdom, North American and Western Europe in the 1870s. It claimed to apply biological concepts of natural selections and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics -
Eleanor Roosevelt
American politician,diplomat, and activist. The longest-serving First Lady of the United States. -
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism.
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Dorothea Lange
Influential American documentary photographer and journalist. She is best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Sercurity Administration -
Langston Hughes
American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist fromjoplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of then then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
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Charles A. Lindnergh
American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist.
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The Great Migration
6 million blacks were forced out of the rual Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occured between 1910 and 1970. -
Federal Reserve System
Centeral banking system of the United States. -
Prohibition
Prohibiting the manufacturing, storagre in barrels, transportation, sale, possession and consuption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages. -
Warren G. Hardings "Return to Normalcy"
It was a way to return of life before World War I. It was part of the United States preisdential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920 -
1st Red Scare (1920s)
Due to real and imagined event, such as the Russian Revolution and the publicly state goal of worldwide communist revolution, the United States marked a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, it happened during the administraion of Preisdent Warrent G. Harding -
Harlem Renaissance
Between the end of World War I, there was an explosion that took place in Harlem, -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Also known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, was an American legal case in 1925. A high school substitute, John Scopes, had been accuesed of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
The Great Depression
After the stock market crashed in October of 1929, the great depression had started, people had no money and started losing their house and had no money to feed their families,
Current unit of study: We have been learning about it and how it started. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
Everyone wanted to take their money out of the bank, and the bank started running out money and couldn't give everyone their money. Customers started getting mad and everyone stayed outside the bank until someone did something about it -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
The 3 Rs required immediate, temporary or permanet actions and reforms -
Tin Pan Alley
It was a name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the US in the 19th and 20th century -
Dust bowl
Damaged the ecology and argiculture of the US and candian praries during the 1930s -
20th amendment
Government elected offices end. Also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federal own corporation in the United States which was created by the confressinal charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricty, generation and fertilizer manufacturing and economic development in the Tennessee Valley. -
The New Deal
Series of programs that enacted between 1933 and 1938, and some came later on.
We have been learning about the new deal in class. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Independent agency of the federal government that is responsible for insuring deposits made by individuals and companies in banks and other thrift instituions. -
Social Security Administration
Agency of the US federal government that administers social sercuity. Insurance program that consist of retirement, disability and survivors' benefits.
Everyone uses it now-a-days -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American Statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933-1945.
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Jazz music
Genre of music that started from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Government commission created by Congress to regulate the securities markets and to protect investors.
