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Frances Willard
- President of National WCTU -Lectured on temperance and women's suffrage
- Although her efforts to gain women's rights did not go into effect during her time. The 18th amendment ad 19th amendment were impacted greatly by her.
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Henry Ford
- Created the Ford Model T car in 1908
- Developed the assembly line for mass production which revolutionized the manufacturing industry
- Ford became a world famous company -One of America's leading business men
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Tin Pan Alley
- A popular music publishing center in New York city -Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues on 28th street -Popular through the late 19th century and early 20th -Tin Pan refers to pianos playing
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Harlem Renaissance
- The Harlem Renaissance was he growth of black culture in the Harlem neighborhood in New York City -1910s to 1930s
- African American culture rose in literature, music, and art. Lots of talent.
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Federal Reserve System
- The central bank of the United States
- Founded in 1913
- Provides safer more stable financial system.
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Marcus Garvey
- founded Universal Negro Improvement Association -Wanted Black Justice -Encouraged African Americans to go back to Africa
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The Great Migration
-Movement of 6 million African Americans out of rural southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.
-1916-1970
-Prior more than 90 percent of African Americans lived in the South
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1st Red Scare
- First started because Russia had the Bolshevik Revolution
- Bolsheviks established a communist government
- The Americans feared immigrants would take over the US
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Prohibition and the 18th amendment
- The 18th amendment was passed January 29th, 1919 -THe temperance movement was no very successful because it was hard to enforce prohibition -The 18th amendment made the sell and use of alcohol illegal by the constitution -As a resultof the amendment illegal activities like bootlegging uproar.
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Social Darwinism
- A theory that humans are subject to the same laws as plants and animals in nature. -Popular in the 19th and 20th century
- Survival of the fittest -Popularity of the Eugenics movement
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Warren G. Hardings " Return to Normalcy"
- Hardings Campaign slogan for the presidential election of 1920 -He promised a return to normalcy after the war
- A return to conservative values
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Jazz music
- Jazz music was a post World War I movement
- Mainly African Americans played Jazz -Jazz was often played in speakeasies -Looked down upon by rich white people
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Langston Hughes
- A poet, novelist, and playwright -African- American, his works were a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance
- His first poem was published in 1921
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
- Secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior
- Secretary of the interior was Albert Bacon Fall
- Pres. Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil reserve land from the navy to the Department of the Interior
- Fall and other family members had received bribes
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William Jennings Bryan
-Served as Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state until 1914
- Served in Congress
- Worked to secure the Democratic presidential nomination for Woodrow Wilson
-Joined the prosecution in the trial of John Scopes
- Darrow put Bryan on the witness stand -
Scopes Monkey Trial
-John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for teaching evolution
- the trial showed the clash between traditional and modern values during the 20s
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Clarence Darrow
- Participated in the Scopes Trial
- Defended a school teacher that taught Darwinian theory of evolution which was against the law. -Participated in other famous court cases.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
- Famous for flying his monoplane on the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris 1927 -He was not involved in World War II but he flew 50 combat missions
- Helped pick air bases overseas
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The Great Depression
-Lasted from 1929 to 1939
- Began after the stock market crashed
- Many banks failed and people couldn't get their money back -
Stock Market Crash " Black Tuesday"
- Beginning of a 12 year depression -Affected all Western industrialized countries -Roaring twenties led to the crash
- The stock market lost $14 billion dollars that day
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Th Dust Bowl
- High winds and dust from Texas to Nebraska -livestock was killed and crops failed -Caused by several economic and agricultural factors
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 32nd President od the United States
- Helped the American people regain faith in themselves during the Great Depression
- Served four terms
- He is why we have the 20th
- New Deal Programs
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The New Deal
Four Major Goals:
Economic Recovery
Job Creation
Investment in Public Works
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Created under the authority of the Banking Act of 1933
- Was created to establish stability in the economy
- Insures that in the event of a bank failure that people would get their money back.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
- Gave press conferences and wrote a newspaper column
- Served in the United States
- Focused on human rights and women's issues
- Dramatically changed the role of the First Lady
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Relief, Recovery, and Reform
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20th Amendment
-The 20th Amendment lists the regulation of terms for government officials, specifically the president and vice president.
- The terms of the president and vice president end on the 20th day of January.
-There are 6 sections to the amendment
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Civil Conservation Corp.
- Gave millions of young men employment on environmental projects
- One of the most successful of Roosevelt's New Deal Programs -Planted more than three billion trees
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21st Amendment
- repealed the 18th amendment
- Made alcohol no longer legal
- There are still prohibition laws though
- Some counties and cities are still dry today even with the repeal of the 18th amendment.
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Securities and Exchange Commission
- Mission is to protect investors
- Maintain fair and orderly markets, gain the public's trust
- Reduced insider trade and fraud
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Social Security Administration
- Taxes were collected for the first time in 1937
- Regularly on going benefits started in 1940
- Meant to help elderly, disabled, sick, etc. people
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1936 Summer Olympics
- The Nazis used the 1936 Olympics as Propaganda.
- Promoted an image of a new and strong Germany, not mentioning the targeting of Jews and Gypsies
- Americans and Europeans boycotted the Olympics because of human rights abuses
