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Frances Willard
an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the 18th and 19th amendments. -
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 politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States -
Henry Ford
American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. -
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Jazz Music
a genre of music that came from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -
Social Darwinism
a modern name given to various theories of society which emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, and which claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
American politician, diplomat, and activist.[1] She was 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 -
Dorothea Lange
influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration -
Langston Hughes
American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. -
Charles A. Lindenbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist. -
The Great Migration
6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. -
Federal Reserve System
The central banking system of the United States. -
Prohibition
The manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages. -
Warren G. Hardings "Return to Normalcy"
The way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. -
1st Red Scare (1920s)
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, the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Harlem Renaissance
Between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Known as The State of Tennessee v. 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 teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.[ -
The Great Depression
after a fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 -
Srock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
Everyone wanted to tske their money out of the bank, and the bank started running out of money and couldnt give everyone their money. Customers started getting upset and everyone stayed outside the bank until someone did something about it. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
The 3 R's required immediate, temporary or permanent actions and reforms. -
Tin Pan Alley
the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. -
Dust Bowl
Damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and canadian praries during the 1930s -
20th Amendment
Government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley -
The New Deal
A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. This relates to our current unit of study because we just learned about it in class. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
a United States government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in US banks. The FDIC was created by the 1933 Banking Act after the Great Depression to restore trust in the American banking system -
21st Amendment
The 21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment. It mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol. -
Social Security Admnistration
An independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945.
FDR relates to our current unit of study because he was the president during this time. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Government commission created by congress to regulate the securities markets and protect investors. In addition to regulation and protection, it also monitors the corporate takeovers in the U.S.
