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Frances Willard
Worked for women's suffrage as President of the Women's Temperance Union. -
Clarence Darrow
A famed criminal defense lawyer for Scopes, who supported evolution. -
William Jennings Bryan
Former presidential candidate who led the fight against evolution at the 1925 Scopes trial. -
Henry Ford
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production. Ford produced a standard model, the Model T Ford. A new Model T Ford cost less than $300 in the mid 1920s. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Was the 32nd American president who led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, greatly expanding the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
She became First Lady, a rose was discovered and named after Eleanor, with the name Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Marcus Garvey
African American leader during the 1920’s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. -
Dorothea Lange
A photographer who documented American life during the Great Depression and the era of the New Deal. -
Social Darwinism
A social theory which states that the level a person rises to in society and wealth is determined by their genetic background.
"Survival of the fittest" -
Langston Hughes
A leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “My People.” -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Made the first non-stop transatlantic solo flight across the Atlantic from NYC, New York to Paris, France. -
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 -
Harlem Renaissance
A period in the 1920’s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished. -
Prohibition
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
Warren G. Harding campaigned on the promise of a "return to normalcy", which would mean a return to conservative values and a turning away from President Wilson's internationalism. -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve Banks held substantial gold reserves and discount loans to their member banks. A modest gold outflow and rising inflation prompted the Fed to increase its discount rate sharply in 1920. -
1st Red Scare
Period in US when there was a suspicion of communism and fear of widespread infiltration of communism in US. -
Jazz Music
A style of dance music popular in the 1920’s. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal of the 1920s shocked Americans by revealing an unprecedented level of greed and corruption within the federal government. The scandal involved ornery oil tycoons, poker-playing politicians, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide, a womanizing president and a bagful of bribery cash delivered on the sly. -
Tin Pan Alley
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. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issues of teaching evolution in public schools. -
The Great Depression
Was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid off workers. -
Stock Market Crash “Black Tuesday”
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. Acting as the most significant predicting indicator of the Great Depression. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dry land farming methods -
The New Deal
Based on the assumption that the power of the federal government was needed to get the country out of the depression, the first days of Roosevelt's administration saw the passage of banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work relief programs, and agricultural programs. -
“Relief, Recovery, Referendum
Relief, Recovery and Reform - required either immediate, temporary or permanent actions and reforms and were collectively known as FDR's New Deal. The many Relief, Recovery and Reform programs were initiated by a series of laws that were passed between 1933 and 1938. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FCIC)
An independent agency of the federal government, the FDIC was created in 1933 in response to the thousands of bank failures that occurred in the 1920s and early 1930s. Since the start of FDIC insurance on January 1, 1934, no depositor has lost a single cent of insured funds as a result of a failure. -
20th Amendment
Changed Presidential Inauguration to January from March -
21st Amendment
The prohibition of alcohol is removed. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
New Deal program that provided reparations in the stock market, protected people from fraud in investments in stocks. -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
Many of the federal and state programs that provide income security to U.S. families have their roots in the Social Security Act (the Act) of 1935. This Act provided for unemployment insurance, old-age insurance, and means-tested welfare programs.
