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Willard grew up from the age of two in Oberlin, Ohio, and from six in Janesville, Wisconsin Territory. Known as Frank to her friends, she grew up a sturdy, independent, and strong-willed child of the frontier. In 1871 she was named president of the new Evanston College for Ladies, a Methodist institution closely associated with Northwestern University. When the Evanston College for Ladies was absorbed by Northwestern in 1873, Willard became dean of women and professor of English and art.
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On most issues he allied himself with the conservative wing of the Republican Party, standing firm against U.S. membership in the League of Nations and always supporting legislation friendly to business. He achieved national visibility when he was chosen to nominate William Howard Taft at the 1912 Republican Convention, and in his next campaign he was elected U.S. senator (1915–21).
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Genre of American popular music that arose in the late 19th century from the American song-publishing industry centered in New York City.
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Marcus Garvey became a leader in the black nationalist movement by applying the economic ideas of Pan-Africans to the immense resources available in urban centers. After arriving in New York in 1916, he founded the Negro World newspaper, an international shipping company called Black Star Line and the Negro Factories Corporation.
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Social Darwinism is an application of the theory of natural selection to social, political, and economic issues. This theory was used to promote the idea that the white European race was superior to others, and therefore, destined to rule over them.
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Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
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Lindbergh rose to fame by piloting his monoplane, the Spirit of St. After the kidnap and murder of his infant son, he moved to Europe in the 1930s and became involved with German aviation developments. Despite objecting to American involvement in World War II, Lindbergh eventually flew 50 combat missions. Eisenhower in 1954, Lindbergh assisted in selecting sites for air bases overseas until turning to environmental causes late in life.
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The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast
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It was the ban of transporting, importing, production and selling of alcoholic beverages in the U.S.
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Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime
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John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute High School
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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.
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William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic
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The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives...
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When President Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to try and stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States
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Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line
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She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her
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Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security
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Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was among the first attorneys to be called a "labor lawyer." He also was known for defending teen aged thrill killers Leopold and Loeb, and John T. Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial. His father, Amirus Darrow, was a Unitarian minister who eventually gave up his creed and lapsed into agnosticism Because their family did not conform to society views.
