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Jazz Music
Jazz started in New Orleans, Louisanna. You can find its roots in Euope and Africa. Started in the early 20th century. -
Glenn Curtiss
American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. -
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican political leader, and also a publisher. -
Warren G Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
This is what Warren Harding advertised during his presidential campaign after WWI it meant an end to wars in Europe and an end to reforms taking place in the United States. -
Sussex Pledge
A promise to change the naval warfare policy by Germany to the US. Germany had instituted a policy of intensified sub warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning. Despite this restriction, a ferry, the Sussex, was torpedoed without warning. It prompted Wilson to declare that if Germany were to continue this practice, the US would declare war. -
John J. Pershing
Known as "Black Jack" was a general in the United States Army. He led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany. -
Alvin York
Also known by his rank, Sergeant York. He was one of the most decorated soldiers in WW1. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
This was a part of the final part of the Allied offensive of WW1 that stretched along the entire Western Front. It lasted 47 days. -
Red Scare
This was a period in US when there was a suspicion of communism and fear of widespread infultration of communism in US. -
Treaty of Versailles
This was created to solve problems made by World War I. Germany was forced to accept the treaty. It was composed of only four of the original points made by President Woodrow Wilson. The treaty punished Germany and did nothing to stop the threat of future wars. It maintained the pre-war power structure. -
The Great Migration
1914-1945; mass movement of African Americans from the South to the North because there were better jobs, and less prejudice, crop failures but then lead to race riots in the north. -
Harlem Renaissance
1920's-1930's was an African American cultural movement.It was centered around Harlem, New York City. -
The Great Depression
On "Black Tuesday" the stock market crashed sending the US into the great depression. Supply was low, demand was high. No one had money, a lot of people lost their jobs, homes, land, and many even lost their lives. -
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Huges was a well known writer. He was also well known for inventing jazz poetry. -
The Dust Bowl
Area of the Great Plains made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms in the 1930s -
Franklin D Roosevelt
He was the 32nd president of the United States. -
The New Deal
This was a group of domestic acts to make the U.S a better place and to make poeple come together. (1930's) -
Dorothea Lange
She was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She was well known for her Depression era work for the Farm Security Administration. -
Charles Lindbergh
He was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. He had many nicknames a few of which being "Slim", "Lucky Lindy", and the "Lone Eagle".
