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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 -
Social Darwinism
The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, 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. -
Jazz Music
European music in that jazz has a "special relationship to time defined as 'swing'", involves "a spontaneity and vitality of musical production in which improvisation plays a role" and contains a "sonority and manner of phrasing which mirror the individuality of the performing jazz musician". -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. -
Federal Reserve System
Is the central banking system of the United States. -
Tin Pan Alley
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. The name originally referred to a specific place: West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, and a plaque (see below) on the sidewalk on 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth commemorates it. -
Prohabition
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. -
1st Red Scare
The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920 -
Warren G. Harding "Return to Normalcy"
"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality". -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The United States Senate looked into the matter, and found Fall had committed conspiracy. It is thought to be one of the biggest political scandals in American history. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. -
Sopes Monkey Trial
The trial of John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Wanted to win orteig Prize for first nonstop transatlatic flight. He flew in a ship names the "The Spirit of St. Louis". An flew solo to New York to Paris in 33 1/2 hours. And became a International celebrity. -
Great Migration
A movment of 6 million African American moved to a rualed area. -
The Great Depression
Soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its nadir, some 13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks had failed. -
20th amendment
Who gets the spot if the president dies if his term was cut shourt. -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
- Relief - Immediate action taken to halt the economies deterioration.
- Recovery - "Pump - Priming" Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand.
- Reform - Permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure citizens against economic disasters.
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
TVA was envisioned not only as a provider, but also as a regional economic development agency that would use federal experts and electricity to rapidly modernize the region's economy and society. -
The New Deal
he New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
21st Amendment
Repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FCIC)
Is The U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and thrift institutions for at least $250,000. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Agency of the United States federal government. It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States. -
The Dust Bowl
The 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. -
Social Security Administration
United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
Marcus Garvey
A Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945 -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. -
Dorthea Lange
American documentary photographer and photojournalist. -
Langston Hughes
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. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States.
