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Frances Willard
She became the corresponding secretary of the Chicago Woman`s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1874. -
Henry Ford
He was the founder of Ford Motor Company, and he was the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Fors introduced revolutionary new mass-production methods. -
William Jennings Bryan
He served two terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska and was United States Secretary of State and Famous speaker and politician from Nebraska -
Jazz Music
A music genre that originated amongst african americans in New Orleans, United States. Jazz music has roots in West African culture. Jazz exploded during the prohibition era -
Tennessee Valley Authority
Starts with Muscle Shoals, a stretch of the Tennessee River where the river drops 140 feet in 30 miles. The drop in elevation created the rapids or "shoals" that the area is named for and made passage farther upstream impossible. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the relocation of a little over 6 million African Americans from the countryside South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970 -
Tin Pan Alley
It ws 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. -
1st Red Scare
A nationwide fear of communists, socialists, anarchists and other dissidents suddenly grabbed the American psyche in 1919 -
Warren G. Harding's "return to Normalcy
When the troops return back home from WW1, they had to return to going back to a "normal" life. Harding used the promise of bringing normalcy back to the country as his main goal -
Marcus Garvey
During World War 1 and the 1920's, his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was the largest black secular organization in African- American history. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Was the most serious in the country's history scandal and began awhile before when government and officials were contemplating for something new -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow as an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union Darrow was best known for protecting two killers Leopold and Loeb in the trial for murdering 14 year old Bobby Franks. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
John Scoped, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funded school. -
Harlem Renaissance
Was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity -
Langston Hughes
Hughes published his first book in 1926. He went on to write countless works of poetry, prose and plays, as well as a popular column for the Chicago Defender. He died on May 22, 1967. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him. But Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
October 24, 1929 the "most devastating" stock market crash in the history of the United States. Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
As first lady, Eleanor traveled across the United States, acting as her husband's eyes and ears reporting back to him after she visited government institutions and programs and numerous other facilities. -
The Great Depression
It started shortly after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent wall street into a panic and it wiped out millions of investors -
Prohibition
18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors. Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, store in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages. -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is the central banking syatem of the United States. This bank took a big hit when the Great Depression was going on, because the federal reserve coordinates all regulatory activities and examines banks periodically. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
With the country in the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt immediately wanted to restore public confidence. -
The New Deal
When Franklin Roosevelt took office, he acted swiftly to try and stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Was established to prevent a repetition of the losses that occured during the Great Depression when bankrupt banks could not return the money back to the people. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Known to be the "watchdog" for Wall Street. It was responsible for protecting U.S. investors from potential loss of income by maintaining far, efficient, and orderly market. -
20th Amendment
IS a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end. -
21st Amendment
was an a terrible attempt and a huge failure of prohibition, which led to people disrespecting the law and criminals to do as well selling illegal alcohol to those who wanted it. -
Dorothea Lange
Lange photographed the unemployment who wandered the streets during the Great Depression. -
The Dust Bowl
This name was given to the Great Plains region devasted by drought in 1930's depression-ridden America. -
Charles Lindbergh
In 1939, After returning to the United States in 1939, Lindbergh became a prominent advocate of American isolationism. When war came, he secretly flew fifty combat missions in the Far East -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
This benifits for qualified WW11 Verterans benefits are a federally funded program administrered by the U.S. SSA that can be paid to certain World War 11 Veterans. -
Social Darwinism
The theory tat persons, groups, and race are subject to the same laws of a natural selection as Charles Darwin had percieved in plants and animals in nature. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
Known as the "Three R's". They were introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis.
