Key Terms Research

  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford

    American Industrialist and the founder of Ford Motor company
  • Frances Willard

    Frances Willard

    founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union
  • Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes

    African American Poet
  • Federal Reserve System

    Federal Reserve System

    provides nation with safer, more flexible finacial system.
  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey

    founded the Negro World Newspaper
  • 1st Red Scare

    1st Red Scare

    Worldwide communist revolution that spreded across the country
  • Tin Pan Alley

    Tin Pan Alley

    Genre of American popular music. The phrase referred to the sound of pianos furiously pounded by the so called song pluggers
  • Jazz music

    Jazz music

    Evolution of music from African Americans
  • Social Darwinism

    Social Darwinism

    Theory that persons, groups, races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin had perceived in plants and animals in natura.
  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan

    He was a congressman.
  • Prohibition

    Prohibition

    progibiting all alcohol consumptions to all americans.
  • Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalacy"

    Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalacy"

    weary from fighting a world war and disillusioned by the failure of wilson's plans to create a new world
  • The great migration

    The great migration

    Mass movement of about 5 million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960
  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow

    1 of the most famous trial attorney
  • Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    A bribery scandel for oil.
  • Scopes Monkey Trail

    Scopes Monkey Trail

    A Highschool teacher was accused of teaching evolution which was against tennesse law.
  • Charles A. Lindbergh

    Charles A. Lindbergh

    He mad the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
  • Relief, Recovery, Reform

    Relief, Recovery, Reform

    used to help unemployed/ poor people due to tough economic times
  • Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"

    Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"

    Hit wall street investors traded 16 million shares on the New York stock exchange
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance

    Happened toward the end of WW1. It drew in black writers, artists, musicians, poets and scholars
  • The Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl

    Dust stormed that formed because of tilting the ground too much
  • Social Security Administratioj

    Social Security Administratioj

    social security protection
  • Tennessee Vally Authority

    Tennessee Vally Authority

    created dams to generate electrical power
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    created because of bank crisis
  • 20th Amendment

    Defines who succeeds the president when he dies
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Served president for 12 years
  • The Great Depression

    economic depression.
  • Securities & Exchange Commission

    Securities & Exchange Commission

    oversees securitiy transaction
  • 21 admendment

    21 admendment

    prohibition
  • The New Deal

    The New Deal

    programs enacted because of FDR because of the great depression
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    Eleanor Roosevelt

    longest 1st lady in the white house
  • Dorothea Lannge

    Dorothea Lannge

    Documentary photographer and photojournalist known for her depression era work for Farm Security