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Frances Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline was born on September 28, 1839 in Churchville New York.Willard graduated from Northwest Female College in 1859.became the president of the Evanston College for Ladies. She became the dean of women at Northwestern University. -
Social Darwinism
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals -
William Jennings Bryan
Born in Illinois, William Jennings Bryan 1860 1925 became a Nebraska congressman in 1890. Bryan lost his subsequent bids for the presidency in 1900 and 1908, using the years between to run a newspaper and tour as a public speaker. -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters.The song publishers who created Tin Pan Alley frequently had backgrounds as salesmen A group of Tin Pan Alley music houses formed the Music Publishers Association of the United States on June 11, 1895, -
jazz music
Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. He founded the Universal Negro improvement association and African communities league. At age 14, Marcus became a printer's apprentice. In 1903 he traveled to Kingston Jamaica -
Eleanor Roosevelt
The wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt changed the role of the first lady through her active participation in American politics.Eleanor gave press conferences and wrote a newspaper column. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford revolutionized assembly-line modes of production for the automobile. Henry Ford created the Ford Model T car in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the industry. -
Federal Reserve System
was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system -
1st Red Scare
The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism -
Warren G. Harding's Return to Normalcy
Return to normalcy, a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. -
Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow grew up in an unconventional household. His father was a carpenter and part-time undertaker in the little town of Kinsman, Ohio. In 1912 Darrow took on a case that almost destroyed his career when he defended two union officials accused of murder in the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. The law, which had been passed in March, made it a misdemeanor -
Charles A. Lindbergh
an American aviator made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born on Feburary 4th 1902, in Detroit. He grew up on a farm. On May 20th Lindbergh took off in the spirit of St Louis from Roosevelt field near New York City -
Langston Hughes
Was an American Poet. Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. On May 22, 1967, Langston Hughes died from complications of prostate cancer. -
Stock Market Crash Black Tuesday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday October 29, the Great Crash the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s -
Relief Recovery Reform
The 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. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also 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 1930s -
The New Deal
one of the bleakest years of the Great Depression, at least one-quarter of the American workforce was unemployed. -
20th Amendment
The 20th amendment is a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal United States government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies -
Tennessee Valley Authority
With the country reeling from the Great Depression, President Roosevelt created his “New Deal” to help America recover. The Tennessee Valley Authority was founded to help the hard-hit Tennessee Valley, where it was tasked with improving the quality of life in the region. -
21st Amendment
United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 16, 1919 -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary photography. -
Social Security Administration
The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits -
Securities & Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is an agency of the United States federal government. It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to be elected four times. He led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II.
