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John J. Pershing
Commanded the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War I. He was known as "Black Jack". He was the most accomplished and celebrated American soldier of the early 20th century. -
Glenn Curtiss
Founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and bilder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd persident. 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. -
Marcus Garvey
Grvey was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist. -
Alvin York
He ended the First World War as one of America's most famous soldiers, with fame and popular recognition assured following a remarkable act of courage and coolness in October 1918. He became lay deacon of a local pacifist sect -
Dorothea Lange
famous photographer during the great depression -
Langston Hughes
He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary. He orgnaized a poetry foundation -
Charles Lindbergh
The press named him "Lucky Lindy" and the "Lone Eagle.He was an american aviator author inventor explorer and social activist -
The Great Migration
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. -
The Great Migration
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. -
Sussex Pledge
It was a promise made in 1916 during World War 1 by Germany to the United States prior to the latter’s entry into the war. -
Red Scare
The promotion of fear of potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
A part of the final allied offensive of World War 1 that stretched along the entire Western Front. -
Treaty of Versailles
The peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of the Russian Revolution and other events in Russia. -
Harlem Renaissance
Literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States. Harding’s campaign for presidency promised a “return to normalcy”. -
The Great Depression
long lasting economic downturn. The stock market dropped -
The New Deal
It is know as Black Tuesday. the American stock market–which had been roaring steadily upward for almost a decade–crashed. -
The Dust Bowl
It was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged many ranches. Many farmers had to move away. After having so many Dust Bowl would die from suffication. -
jazz music
New orleans was the birthplace of Jazz
