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She was a temperance reformer, women's suffragist, and educator. She helped expand women's rights.
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A theory that groups, individuals, and people are all subjects to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as animals and plants.
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Central banking system of the United States.
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A politician from Nebraska, a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, and was an American orator.
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He was an American industrialist, Founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Mainly known for the Ford car.
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Lindbergh was the first President to fly to Paris in a trans Atlantic flight.
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Marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and Anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events, such as, the Russian Revolution as well as the Communist Revolution.
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The "Return to Normalcy" was Warren G. Harding's campaign promise, to bring back the way of life before World War I, during the election of 1920.
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The Tea Pot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident during the administration of Warren G. Harding.
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Head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. He urged black economic cooperations and founded a chain of businesses and UNIA grocery stores.
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The law that prevented manufacturing and sales of alcohol.
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Formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. A substitute teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which was basically saying that teaching about the human evolution in class was unlawful.
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A name given to the artistic, social, and cultural explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of WWI and the middle of the 1930's. Lots of artistic qualities.
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This was a name given to many songwriters and music publishers who dominated the music industry in the 19th-20th century.
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Jazz music was very popular during World War I and the Depression. Jazz bands mainly consisted of about seven twelve musicians.
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Also well known as the Great Crash or the Wall street crash of 1929, it was the most devastating stock market crash in history.
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Deepest and longest lasting economic downturn in history.
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The movement of 6 million African American out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and west.
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AKA the dirty thirties, was a period of very severe dust storms that greatly damaged a lot of things.
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"The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin."
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Known as FDR. He was the 32nd President of the United States of America. Had many programs for relief and reforms.
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Diplomat, American politician, and activist. Longest serving first lady. Supporter of human rights.
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Also known as the Three R's. Introduced by FDR during the great depression.
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Federally owned corporation in the US created by congressional charter. Flood control/Electricity generation/etc.
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Independent agency of the federal government responsible for insuring deposits made by individuals and companies in banks and other thrift institutions.
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An admission of the terrible failure of prohibition. Basically made alcohol relegal.
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A US government agency that oversees securities transactions, activities of financial professionals and mutual fund trading to prevent fraud and intentional deception.
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A social insurance program consisting of disability, retirement, and survivor's benefits.
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Lange was a popular documentary photographer and a photojournalist. Her depression photos are the most popular.
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A series of programs, including, Social Security, that was enacted in the United States.
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An American lawyer, a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform, and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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He was a writer who had many playwrights and poems. Earliest form of jazz poetry.