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Clarence Darrow
Was an American lawyer, leading member of the american Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks. -
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Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
A return to the way of life before World War 1, was United Sates presidential candidate Warren G. Hardings campaign promise in the election of 1920. Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism, coined by Harding. -
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Frances Willard
Promoted the cause of women and reform as a pioneer educator and especially as the most prominent leader of the nineteenth century movement to end alcohol abuse. She was named president of the Evanston College for ladies, a new school founded in 1871 with links to Northwestern, which it soon absorbed. She coined the phrase "Home Protection" to encourage women to expand their influence beyond the family circle, including fighting prostitution and venereal disease. -
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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 Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States. -
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Henry Ford
Was an industrialist the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Although Ford invented neither the automobile nor the assembly line, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. -
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Social Darwinism
A name given to various theories emerging in the United Kingdom, North America, and western Europe in the 1870's that claim to apply biological concepts f natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics.Herbert Spencer, William Graham Sumner, Edward L. Youmans, John Fiske, and john W. Burgess helped shape American social Darwinism. -
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Social Security Administration ( SSA)
The Social Security Administration assigns social security numbers; administers the retirement, survivors, and disability insurance programs known as Social Security; and administers the Supplements Security Income program for the aged, blind, and disabled. -
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Eleanor Roosevelt
An American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, and served as United Sates Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. -
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Dorothea Lange
An american documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. -
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Langston hughes
Was an american poet, novelist, and playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's. His poetry was later promoted by Vachel Lindsay, and he published his first book in 1926. Hughes ashes were interred beneath the entrance of the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black culture in Harlem. -
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Tin Pan Alley
Was the nickname given to the street where many music publishers worked during the period of 1880 to 1953. By 1917, a recording by a new musician, Louis Armstrong, took over Tin Pan Alley and the 1920's were dedicated to the playing and recording of jazz. Tin Pan Alley remains synonymous with the most prolific and diverse in American popular music. -
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Federal Reserve System
It was created for financial problems that may occur, it showed the need for central control of the monetary system if crises are to be avoided. The U.S. Congress established three key objectives for monetary policy in the Federal Reserve: maximizing employment, stabilizing prices, and moderating long-term interest rates. -
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Harlem Renaissance
Was the name given to cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in harlem between the end of World War 1 and the middle of the 1930's. during this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing back writers, artists musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. -
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the Great Migration
Was the movement of 6 million african-americans out of rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. Until 1910, more that 90 percent of the African-American population lived in the American South. -
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21st. Amendment
The United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol. It is unique among the 27 amendments of the U.S. Constitution for being the only one to repeal a prior amendment and to have been ratified by state ratifying conventions. -
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1st Red Scare (1920's)
Was a period during the early 20th-century history of the united States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included those such as the Russian Revolution as well as the publicly stated goal of a worldwide communist revolution. -
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Prohibition
It was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.It was promoted by the "dry" crusaders, a movement led by rural Protestants and social Progressives in the Prohibition, Democratic, and Republican parties. -
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Marcus Garvey
He was born in Jamaica, and was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Garvey advanced a PAn-African philosophy which inspired a global mass improvement, known as Garveyism. In 1922, Marcus Garvey and three other U.N.I.A. officials were charged with mail fraud involving the Black Star Line. -
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Scoped Monkey Trial
It's formally known as "The State Of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes" and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, it was an illegal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
Was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
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Charles A. Lindbergh
An american aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on. He served as an adviser in the aviation industry from the days of wood and wire planes to supersonic jets. On May 10-11, 1927, he testes the plane by flying from San Diego to New York City, with an overnight stop in St. Louis. -
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The Great Depression
The deepest and long-lasting economic downturn in the history of the western industrialized world. In the United States, The Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
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Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
The Wall street crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States when taking into consideration the extent and duration of its aftereffects. -
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Jazz
A music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States. In the late 19th and 20th centuries. Since the late 1920's jazz age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation. -
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20th amendment
It moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. It also has provisions that determine what is to be done when there is not president-elect. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. He was stricken with debilitating polio in 1921, which cost him the use of his legs and out his future political career in jeopardy, but he attempted to recover from the illness, and founded the treatment center for people with polio in Warm Springs, Georgia. -
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The New Deal
Was a series of programs, including, most notably, Social Security, that were enacted in the United Sates between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
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Relief, Recovery, Reform
It was introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis.The many Relief, Recovery and Reform programs were collectively known as FDR's New Deal. -
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Is an independent agency of the federal government responsibility for insuring deposits made by individuals and companies in banks and other thrift institutions. -
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
A federal owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter, it provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a religion particularly affected by the Great Depression. -
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The Dust Bowl
Known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the U.S. and Canadian prairies during the 1930's; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon. -
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Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nations stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States.