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Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States -
Jazz Music
Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform -
William Jennings Bryan
William Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing 3 times as the Party’s nominee for President of the United States -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945 -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement -
Frances Willard
Frances Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration -
1st Red Scare
The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh was an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer and social activist. He had some nicknames such as, Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle -
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 -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States -
Warren G. Harding
Return to normalcy, a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920 -
Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remind in place from 1920 - 1933 -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The scopes Trial, also known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. The Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
The Relief, Recovery and Reform programs, known as the 'Three R's', were introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis -
Stock Market Crash
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the Great Crash was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of the World War 1 and the middle of the 1930’s. During that period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars -
20th Amendment
The 20th amendment is a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end. It also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. This amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933. -
The New Deal
During The New Deal was at least one-quarter of the American workforce was unemployed. When President Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to try and stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering -
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 and electricity generation -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent agency of the federal government responsible for insuring deposits made by individuals and companies in banks and other thrift institutions -
21st Amendment
The 21st amendment was an admission of the terrible failure of prohibition, which led to people disrespecting the law and criminals to do well selling illegal alcohol to those that wanted it -
Securities & Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is an agency of the United States federal government. It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws and proposing securities rules -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the U.S. and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. There was a severe drought and failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion -
Social Security Administration
The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits
