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Marcus Garvey
He was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. -
Alvin York
He was known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. -
Dorothea Lange
She was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration -
Langston Hughes
He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. -
Charles Lindbergh
He was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. -
Glenn Curtiss
He was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. -
Jazz Music
Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. -
Sussex Pledge
It was a promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war. -
Great Migration
The Great Migration, or the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. -
John J. Pershing
He was the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionar Forces to victory over Germany in World War I. -
Red Scare
It is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents -
Batlle of Argonne Forest
It was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. -
Treaty of Versailles
It was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
Warren Harding's Return of Normalcy
He 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. -
Harlem Renaissance
It was a movement that spanned the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. -
The Great Depression
It was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. -
The Dust Bowl
It was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon. -
The New Deal
It was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States.
