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Frances Willard
She was the face of the WCTU for 11 years. She changed it from a conservative organization into more of a woman’s rights movement with a focus on social issues. Including, but not limited to, the right to vote. She came up with the saying “Home Protection” to encourage women to not be limited to the home but fight for issues such as prostitution and venereal disease. -
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William Jennings Bryan
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Henry Ford
He founded Ford Motor Company, the first major American car company. He was also one of the first people to take advantage of the modern day assembly line. Ford didn't invent the car or the assembly line, he made the first car that many people could afford. -
Social Darwinism
The belief in survival of the fittest. The term emerged in the 1880s. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was an American Statesmen who became one of the best presidents to date. He was the 32nd president. He was shot and killed in downtown Dallas. -
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Elenor Roosevelt
She was the First Lady of the United States & served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. President Harry S.Truman had once called her "First Lady of the World" because of her human rights achievements. She married her fifth cousin, Franklin Roosevelt. -
Tin Pan Alley
The Tin Pan Alley is a group of NYC based music publishers & songwriters. They were the main people that people were listening to in the late 1800's and early 1900's. -
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Marcus Garvey
He was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, and entrepreneur. He was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement and he founded of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. He inspired things from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement. -
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Charles Darrow
He invented the board game, that has ruined families and friendships for quite a long time, "Monopoly." -
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Doretha Lange
Dorothea Lange was a photojournalist and a documentary photographer. She is well known for her work during the Great Depression. She took photographs of the FSA (Farm Security Administration.) -
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was a poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright. He was from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the first people to create a style of poetry called "jazz poetry." -
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh, nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle. He was a military officer, American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. "Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests." -
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the moving of millions of African Americans to the North, West, and East. They moved to get away the racism that was in the South, even post civil war. -
Return To Normality
Going back to how life was before WW1. was the main point of Warren's 1920 electoral campaign. The word dates back to as far as early 1800's. -
First Red Scare
First of all, a red scare is the fear of communism. They got very afraid because of things like The Russian Revolution, but for the other half of their fear was totally imagined. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Deals with Oil Leases in the early 1920's. The teapot dome was an underground oil and gas formation. At the time it was a very large scandal. -
Jazz Music
A sale of American music that was developed from ragtime and blues. The music is normally loud and very rhythmic, featuring saxophones, trumpets, and some string instruments. It was popular in the 1920's. -
20th Amendment
This amendment created inauguration day, and is the first to put it in writing that the President shall leave office at noon on January 20th. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
This trial was between a man and the state. The man was John Scopes, and he was a substitute teacher in the state of Tennessee. In his class, he taught evolution instead of creationism, which caused pure chaos. This was also the first trial to be broadcasted on radio. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the time period in which the Untied States had a very poor economy and jobs were hard to come by. This time period went from the late 20's to the late 30's. It lasted about ten years, and was ended by the war. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street because some investors created around 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in one individual day. Billions of dollars were lost because of this, which wiped out a ton of investors. The Great Depression can almost solely be blamed on this day. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
This group was made to control flood control and electricity disputation. -
The Federal Despot Insurance Corporation
The FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation protects public confidence and promotes it. It insures bank despots up to 250,000. It monitors and points out risks to the deposit and limits its effect on the economy. -
The Three R's
The three R's, which were relief, recovery, and reform, were introduced by FDR to address the current economic and unemployment crisis.