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Jazz music
Jazz music was born early in the 20th century in the United states. The sound cames from the typical instruments such as drums, guitar, piano, saxophone, trumpet and bass. Jazz musical origins were the blues, folk, and ragtime. Jazz is a genre of music originated by African-American communities during the 20th century. -
Glenn Curtiss
Curtis dropped out of school at eighth-grade so for years later he joined the AEA A pioneering research group to build aircrafts. -
The great migration
The great the great migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rule southern United States to the urban north of the country between 1910 and 1970 -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey return to Jamaica in 1912 and founded the Universal Negro improvement Association with the goal of uniting all of African Diaspora to establish the country and government of their own. -
Sussex pledge
A promise made by Germany to the United States before we entered the war. Germany had instituted a policy of underrestricted submarine warfare alowing armed merchant ships but not passenger ships to be torpedoed. Despite the restriction of French passenger torpedoed the Sussex. -
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was where many African-American writers artists musicians photographers poets and scholars came to Harlam in search to find a place where they could freely express their talents. -
Pershings victory
In September of 1918 Pershing led his men in the Reduction of the St. Mihiel Salient. This was the first victory of the first United States Army in the war. -
Yorks medal
York won the Medal of Honor after his brave and sneaky attack on the Germans. Him and his group were assigned to go behind German lines to overrun them and capture the German soldiers who were about to attack the U.S. Army. -
The red scare
A red scar is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism. Like the first red scare in America was about work or Revolution and political radicalism. -
The treaty of Versailles
This treaty imposed on germany by the allied powers in 1920 after the end of world war 1 which demanded reparations from the Germans. -
Warren Harding
Return to normalcy a return to the way of life before World War I was the United States presidential candidate Warren Harding's campaign promise. -
Charles Lindbergh
Aviator Charles Lindbergh became famous for making the first solo trans Atlantic airplane flight in 1927. -
Langston Hughes
Blankston graduated from Lincoln in 1922 he published his first novel called "not without" laughter. The book was so successful it convinced Langston that he could make a living as a writer and throughout his life he he was a poet and author. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea was a photographer whose portraits of displayed farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later photography. -
The Great Depression
The great depression was a worldwide economic depression right before World War II. It was the deepest and longest lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. It began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929 which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
The dust bowl
The dust bowl with a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away to breadbasket of the nation. Eight created many problems from destroying crops and moving dirteverywhere from outside to inside getting into your eyes, your food, water, your bed it was a catastrophe that we couldn't solve. -
The new deal
The new deal that Franklin Roosevelt made was kind of like a plan to help improve the way of life for people who suffered in the great depression. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Presidents Franklin had many many accomplishments during his terms as president such as leading the nation during the Great Depression and World War II. Franklin Roosevelt was a commander-in-chief during World War II he worked with and sometimes around his military advisers. He helped develop a strategy for defeating Germany in Europe.
