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An American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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An American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform.
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A Nebraska congressman
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president during key moments in U.S. history such as the Great Depression and World War II. During his first months in office, he passed several programs and reforms designed to stimulate the economy and relieve those struggling financially.
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An American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest serving First Lady of the United States
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An orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.
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An American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration
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One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture.
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An American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927.
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A genre of music in the early 1900's, and is popular to this day
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The movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West
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The central banking system of the United States.
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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.
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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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The cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s.
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A nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages
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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
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Return to normalcy was Harding's presidential promise after world war one
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A bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding
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An American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act
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Share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.
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A severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s
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Programs introduced in the great depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis.
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A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the U.S. and Canadian prairies during the 1930s
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A series of programs, including, most notably, Social Security, that were enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later.
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An amendment installing the set dates of which federal elected offices end, also who will succeed the president if the president dies.
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a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley.
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An independent agency of the federal government responsible for insuring deposits made by individuals and companies in banks and other thrift institutions
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This Amendment simply repealed the 18th, otherwise known as prohibition
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An agency of the United States federal government. It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws
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An independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.
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An American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
