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was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the 18th and 19th adamants
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was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. he solved many hard cases that help a lot of people
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the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
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He starred at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver. after helping Woodrow Wilson secure the Democratic presidential nomination for 1912, he served as Wilson’s secretary of state until 1914. In his later years, Bryan campaigned for peace, prohibition and suffrage, and increasingly criticized the teaching of evolution.
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Henry Ford was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford motor company, and the maker of the assembly line.
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Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System. which provided the nation with a more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.
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Many blacks moved to northern cities for better opportunities. but many saw just as much discrimination in the north. so many also took ships back to Africa.
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Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans and then traveled all over the untied states.
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prohibited the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol within the United States.
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Fear of communist revolution in the U.S. and passage of various sedition laws. Heightened by 1919 anarchist bombings. Begun by Russia's Bolshevik revolution
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The harlem renaissance was the development of the harlem neighborhood in new york city as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. the period is considered a golden age in african american culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art.
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Warren G. Harding's return was mainly around his idea to make life as it was before world war one
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The Teapot Dome scandal involved national security, big oil companies and bribery and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the United States. It was the most serious scandal in the country’s history
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proponent of Black nationalism in Jamaica and especially the United States. He was a leader of a mass movement called Pan-Africanism and he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
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High school teacher John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100 the Tennessee supreme court later upheld the constitutionality of the statute but overturned Scopes' conviction on a technicality
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he became the first man to successfully fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. He called his airplane the Spirit of St. Louis, and his courageous feat helped make Missouri a leader in the developing world of aviation.
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It began after the stock market crash on October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid off workers.
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panic started and people started taking money out of the bank. the biggest decline was on October 29 $14 billion lost that day and $30 billion that week. steady decline until 1932. businesses began to lay off works and many banks fell apart to.
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The phrase tin pan referred to the sound of pianos furiously pounded by the so-called song pluggers, who demonstrated tunes to publishers. tin pan alley comprised the commercial music of songwriters of ballads, dance music, and vaudeville, and its name eventually became synonymous with american popular music in general
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the dust bowl was high winds and choking dust swept the region from texas to nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region. the dust bowl intensified the crushing economic impacts of the great depression and drove many farming families on a desperate migration in search of work and better living conditions.
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the new deal was a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the great depression.
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was a public work relief program that have jobs to unemployed, unmarried men originally for young men ages 18 through 25.The CCC was a major part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal that provided unskilled manual labor jobs. The CCC was designed to provide jobs for young men and to relieve families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression
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sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies.
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he Relief, Recovery and Reform programs, known as the three R's, were introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis.
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to provide stability to the economy and the failing banking system. the FDIC guaranteed a specific amount of checking and savings deposits for its member banks.
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the united states constitution repealed the 18th Amendment to the united states constitution, which had mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol
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enforced the federal securities laws both laws are considered parts of Franklin D. Roosevelt's new deal raft of legislation.
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to help old people there were way to old to work anymore still have money to buy food and have a little place to live. It also have a little bit of money to the people that just got fired from here job so that they can still get food for there family while they try to find a new job
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The games were the first to be televised, and radio broadcasts reached 41 countries.
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Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. He was also one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
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Roosevelt ran successfully for reelection in 1940. His victory made him the first and only U.S. President to serve for more than two terms. he also made the new deal
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United State. She pressed the United States to join and support the United Nations and became its first delegate.
