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Frances Willard
On March 27, 1877, Frances Willard and WCTU members presented a petition to the General Assembly in Springfield, Illinois. The petition was signed by 7,000 voters who were in favor of the Home Protection Bill. The bill did not pass. They returned to Springfield in March 1879 with a petition signed by 180,000 people. The Home Protection Bill never passed but it did have an impact on the spring elections the following year, a majority of the Illinois towns voted for the local option. -
Tin Pan Alley
A 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. -
Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer applied individual competition and survival to races and nations.Spencer didn't believe that the government should put restrains on big businesses -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford created the assembly line which produced more jobs. Ford sold millions of cars and became a well known company. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). UNIA was the largest movement in African-American history. Garvey supported a black nationalist "Back to Africa" message. Garvey and the UNIA created 700 branches in thirty-eight states by the early 1920's. -
Jazz Music
"The Original Dixieland Jass Band" made the first jazz record and prompted many New Orleans jazz musicians to move to New York. The Dixieland Jass Band wrote a number of important pieces and led the way for many jazz musicians -
1st Red Scare
Fear of anarchists, communist, and immigrants. -
Harlem Renaissance
In New York major figures ,such as Langston Hughes, made the Harlem Renaissance through African American music, literature, and artistic talents. -
Warren G Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
In the 1920 presidential election,Warren G. Harding campaigned on the promise of a "return to normalcy", which would mean a return to conservative values and a turning away from President Wilson's internationalism. -
Prohibition
The result of a widespread temperance movement during the first decade of the 20th century, Prohibition was difficult to enforce, despite the passage of companion legislation known as the Volstead Act. The increase of the illegal production and sale of liquor (known as “bootlegging”), the proliferation of speakeasies (illegal drinking spots) and the accompanying rise in gang violence and other crimes led to waning support for Prohibition by the end of the 1920s. In -
Eleanor Roosevelt
In the 1920s, Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt's wife/cousin was involved in Democratic Party politics and numerous social reform organizations. In the White House, she was one of the most active first ladies in history and worked for political, racial and social justice. After President Roosevelt’s death, Eleanor was a delegate to the United Nations and continued to serve as an advocate for a wide range of human rights issues -
Tea Pot Scandal
In the early 1920s President Harding's secretary was in a lot of debt and so he thought of a scheme. He handed out and approved generous federal contracts to his close friends who were also head executives of powerful oil companies,instead of Teapot Dome being used as a backup source of fuel for the U.S. Navy, Fall used his connections to illegally sell access to the oil field. These bribes brought Secretary Fall over $400,000. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes is discovered by poet Vachel Lindsay. Lindsay then put Hughes in touch with editors at Knopf. Knopf later published Hughes book " The Weary Blues". -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow decided to represent Scope in the Monkey Scopes Trial.In 1924 he saved 2 man who killed children from the death penalty. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh made the 1st flight across the Atlantic Ocean that didn't stop and he was by himself. He flew in the Spirit of St Louis from Roosevelt field. After his flight he published " We " a book about the flight. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in 1 day. Billions of dollars were gone, bankrupting thousands of investors. The result of Black Tuesday, America went into the Great Depression (1929-39), the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that time. -
"The New Deal"
President Franklin Roosevelt's created programs to combat economic depression enacted a number of social insurance measures and used government spending to stimulate the economy; increased power of the state and the state's intervention in U.S. social and economic life. -
Franklin D Roosevelt
The first and only president to be elected for 4 full terms. He Led the US through Great Depression and World War II . Came up with the "New Deal". -
The 3 R's
Relief - Immediate action taken to halt the economies deterioration. Recovery - "Pump - Priming" Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand. Reform - Permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure citizens against economic disasters. -
TVA
This agency was asked to tackle important problems facing the valley, such as flooding, providing electricity to homes and businesses, and replanting forests. -
FCIC
This agency's purpose was to provide stability to the economy and the failing banking system. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary photography.Her first exhibition was in 1934 -
Social Security Administration
SSA's purpose was to establish a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. -
The Great Migration
Relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970. It had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. They were driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws, many blacks headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that first arose during WWI -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Trial began on July 10th,1925. The defendant, John Thomas Scopes, was a high school coach and substitute teacher who had been charged with violating the Butler Act by teaching the theory of evolution in his classes. The Butler Act forbid the teaching of any theory that denied the biblical story of Creationism. By teaching that man had descended from apes, the theory of evolution, Scopes was charged with breaking the law. -
20th Amendment
This Amendment states how long the presidency term is (2 terms). It was passed to reduce the amount of time lame duck Presidents and Congressmen had to push policies before the new administration and legislators took over. -
The Great Depression
A long 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
