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Frances Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was 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. -
Clarence Darrow
an 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 nominee for President of the United States -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is 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. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements,which inspired a global mass movement, known as Garveyism. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance -
Henry Ford
an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. -
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 -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Secretary of Interior Albert Fall, who accepted large sums of money and gifts from private oil companies. In exchange, Gall allowed the companies to control government oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome Wyoming. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
formally 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 May 1925 -
Charles A. Lindberg
Charles A. Lindberg is an American Aviator, and made the fist solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic. But many people crossed before him, he did it alone not a single stop. -
Stock Market Crash " Black Tuesday"
Was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States -
Harlem Renaissance
a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
