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Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Glenn Curtiss manufactured engines for airships.
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Franklin D. Rossevelt was nominated as a candidate for the U.S senate.
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The Sussex Pledge was a promise during World War 1.
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The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West.
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Hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare.
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The Batlle of the Argonne Forest was the largest offensive fight by the AEF.
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The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity.
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Warren G. Harding won the press election.
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John J. Pershing served as army cheif of staff after the war.
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Charles Lindbergh completed the first non-stop trans-atlantic flight.
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Langston Hughes was an important writer of the Harlem Renaissance.
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The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world.
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The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States.
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More and more dust storms had been blowing up in the years leading up to that day.
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Dorothea Lange photographed the Great Deppresion.
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Alvin York was the greatest American hero of WW1.
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Marcus Garvey was the largest mass movement leader.
