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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. -
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company -
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. -
a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. -
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding -
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota -
granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. -
first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean -
The Mexican Repatriation was the repatriation and deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to Mexico from the United States during the Great Depression between 1929 and 1939. Estimates of how many were ranged from 355,000 to 2,000,000. -
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. -
oversee the construction of dams to control flooding, improve navigation, and create cheap electric power in the Tennessee Valley basin. -
The FDIC insures deposits; examines and supervises financial institutions for safety, soundness, and consumer protection; makes large and complex financial institutions resolvable; and manages receiverships -
an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 -
an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Roosevelt in 1935 -
The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits.