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1933 BCE
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. -
1933 BCE
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs and policies of Relief, Recovery and Reform to combat the effects of the Great Depression during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
1932 BCE
20th Amendment
Constitution moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president -
1930 BCE
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. -
1923 BCE
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
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1921 BCE
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States of America from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
1913 BCE
Federal Reserve Sytem
is the central bank of the United States -
Dorothea Lange
Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary and journalistic photography. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
became famous for making the first solo transatlantic airplane -
Langston Hughes
He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. -
Marcus Garvey
was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association -
Frances Willard
American educator, reformer, and founder of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union -
Tin Pan Alley
the din from so many composers writing songs on their pianos inspired writer Monroe Rosenfeld to liken the neighborhood -
Clarence Darrow
leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union -
William Jennings Bryan
was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford created the Ford Model T car in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production -
Scopes Monkey Trial
was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful -
Harlem Renaissance
An African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem -
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 -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He became the 32nd U.S. president in 1933, and was the only president to be elected four times. -
The Great Depression
was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world -
Elanor Rossevelt
was one of the most outspoken women in the White House. She married Franklin D. Roosevelt