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Frances Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline 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. -
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William Jennings Bryan
Bryan worked for peace, prohibition, and women's suffrage, and he increasingly criticized the teaching of evolution. He joined the prosecution in the trial of John Scopes, a school teacher from Tennessee charged with violating state law by teaching evolution. Clarence Darrow defended Scopes Bryan did not. -
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Henry Ford
Ford produced a standard model, the Model T Ford, which cost less than $300, mid-1920s.By 1929, more than 26 million cars were registered in the USA.During the 1920s, about $1 billion a year was spent on the construction of a national network of highways. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Became the president of the United States during the Great Depression and came up with the idea of the new deal acts which were to help slow down and prevent another depression. -
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Eleanor Roosevelt
A long time political partner of her husband, President Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt also developed her own political network and her own liberal ideology. She organized the organization of the National Youth Administration and the Public Works Arts Project. -
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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, inspiring the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement. -
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Dorothea Lange
American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. -
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Langston Hughes
On May 22, 1967, Langston Hughes died from complications of prostate cancer. A tribute to his poetry, his funeral contained little in the way of spoken eulogy, but was filled with jazz and blues music. Hughes's ashes were interred beneath the entrance of the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black culture in Harlem. The inscription marking the spot features a line from Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." It reads: "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." -
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist. -
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The Great Migration
It was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West.
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Social Darwanism
Social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. But Social Darwinism is the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same darwinian laws of natural selections as pants and animals. -
1st Red Scarce
It refers to the fear of communism in the USA during the 1920s -
Tin Pan Alley
"Tin Pan Alley" was the nickname given to the street where many music publishers worked during the period of 1880 to 1953. In the late 19th century, New York had become the epicenter of songwriting and music publishing, and publishers converged on the block of West 28th Street. As he walked down 28th Street toward the publishing offices, he heard the dissonant chords and strings of competing pianos through the open windows. The sound, he remarked, sounded like a bunch of tin pans clanging. -
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Jazz Music
The history of Jazz music originates in New Orleans. Jazz and Blues are among America’s greatest cultural achievements. -
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Harlem Renaissance
The name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem. Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. The Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement kindled a new black cultural identity. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Involved national security, big oil companies and bribery and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the United States. It was the most serious scandal. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
“Monkey Trial” begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. It happened in the US soon after the stock market crashed. The Great Depression started in 1929 and ended in 1939. -
Dust bowl
The Dust Bowl was several really bad dust storms. They dried out crops. It was the largest manmade disaster. It even killed multiple people. -
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
Roosevelt's basic philosophy of Keynesian economics manifested itself in what became known as the three "R's" of relief, recovery and reform. -
The 20th Amendment
The 20th amendment is a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. This amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933. -
The New Deal
The New Deal acts were laws and organizations put out by Franklin D. Roosevelt to help with the great depression. These acts helped slow down the great depression and finally ended it. -
Federal Reserve System
The federal reserve act passed by the Congress today is a most constructive step toward the solution of the financial and banking difficulties which have confronted the country. The extraordinary rapidity with which this legislation was enacted by the Congress heartens and encourages the country -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The Tennessee Valley Authority's purpose was to address the Valley's most important issues in energy, environmental stewardship and economic development. This was one of the several New deal's set forth by Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was signed in 1933. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FCIC)
The FDIC was created in 1933 in response to the thousands of bank failures that occurred in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) preserves public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and thrift institutions for up to $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank. -
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. Repealing the 18th amendment didn't make alcohol completely legal through the entire country. -
Securities and Exchange Commission
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was created to enforce the federal securities laws; both laws are considered parts of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal raft of legislation. This was on of Roosevelt's New deal acts. It was created in 1934. -
Social Security act
The Social Security was an act made for people when they retire to provide an income for them. and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws. This Act was Signed in 1935 -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Mr. Harding was the 29th President of the United States of America. He died during the third year of his term. But one of his campaign -
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