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American industrialist who revolutionized factory production with his assembly-line methods. -
The theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature -
the physical location of the New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Tin Pan Alley was the popular music publishing center of the world -
best-known figure in aeronautical history, remembered for the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean -
The Lost Generation is best known as being the cohort which primarily fought in World War I, Hemingway, Matisse, Picasso, Pound, Anderson and F. Scott Fitzgerald -
an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. -
granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote, however, was governed by state law; until 1957, some states barred Native Americans from voting. -
limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota -
to wrongfully remove persons of Mexican ancestry and secure transportation arrangements with railroads, automobiles, ships, and airlines to effectuate the wholesale removal of persons out of the United States to Mexico. -
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region. -
The FDIC, or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, is an agency created in 1933 during the depths of the Great Depression to protect bank depositors and ensure a level of trust in the American banking system. -
a work relief program that gave millions of young men employment on environmental projects during the Great Depression -
electric utility company, service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. -
The primary purpose of the SEC is to enforce the law against market manipulation. Created after the market crash -
an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Roosevelt that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. -
an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits.