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Frances Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) 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 -
Social Darwinism
The Theory of Evolution Applied to Human Society. Social Darwinism was the application of Charles Darwin`s scientific theories of evolution and natural selection to contemporary social development. In nature, only the fittest survived in the marketplace. -
Relief, recovery, reform
Franklin D Roosevelt was the 32nd American President who served in office. One of the important events during his presidency was the Relief, Recovery and Reform program -
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 in the late 19th century and early 20th century -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) became a leader in the black nationalist movement by applying the economic ideas of Pan-Africanists to the immense resources available in urban centers. After arriving in New York in 1916, he founded the Negro World newspaper, the U.S. Justice Department in 1923, he spent two years in prison before being deported to Jamaica, and later died in London. -
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 that occurred between 1916 and 1970. Until 1910, more than 90 percent of the African-American population lived in the American South. -
Langston Hughes
James Mercer 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. Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. -
Warren G. Harding’s
Return to normalcy, a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan for the election of 1920. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim, was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974) rose to fame by piloting his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, on the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris in 1927. After the kidnap and murder of his infant son, he moved to Europe in the 1930s and became involved with German aviation developments. -
Stock Market Crash “Black Tuesday”
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday October 29, the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 "Black Thursday", and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States acting as the most significant predicting indicator of the Great Depression. The stock market crash of 1929 was not the sole cause of the Great Depression, . -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1939, and was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid off workers. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
An American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the U.S from 1933 until his death in 1945. With the country mired in the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt immediately acted to restore public confidence, proclaiming a bank holiday and speaking directly to the public in a series of radio broadcasts or “fireside chats.” His ambitious slate of New Deal programs and reforms redefined the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans -
20th Amendment
The 20th Amendment to the Constitution, known as the "Lame-Duck Amendment," was ratified in 1933. The 20th Amendment shortened the period of time lame duck Members of Congress could stay in office after an election had been held, from 13 months to 2 months.
