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Jazz Music
In 1920, the jazz age was underway and was indirectly fueled by prohibition of alcohol.[5] In Chicago, the jazz scene was developing rapidly, aided by the migration of over 40 prominent New Orleans jazzmen to the city, continuous throughout much of the 1920s, -
1st Red Scare
On January 7, 1920, at the first session of the New York State Assembly, Assembly Speaker Thaddeus C. Sweet attacked the Assembly's five Socialist members -
Prohibition
rohibition began on January 16, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect. Federal Prohibition agents (police) were given the task of enforcing the law. -
Frances Willard
Preisdent of Women's Christian Temperence Union in late 1800s which help pass the 18th and 19th amendment in 1920s -
Return to Normalcy
a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920 -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921, -
Marcus Garvey
Garvey was convicted and sentenced to prison for five years -
Social Darwinism
The theory that persons, groups, and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin had perceived in plants and animals in nature. -
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity. -
Scopes Monkey Trail
ohn Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. -
William Jennings Bryan
Assistant to the prosecution in the famous scopes monkey trial of 1925. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was the most famous trial lawyer in the United States. In 1925, Darrow defended John T. Scopes in the State of Tennessee v. Scopes trial. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean -
Henry Ford
Successful Ford Model A, introduced in December 1927 -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday hits Wall Street as investors trade 16,410,030 shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors, and stock tickers ran hours behind because the machinery could not handle the tremendous volume of trading. -
The Great Depression
More than 3.2 million people are unemployed, up from 1.5 million before the October, -
Federal Reserve System
The central banking system of the United States. -
20th Amendment
simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt spearheaded unprecedented major legislation and issued a profusion of executive orders that instituted the New Deal -
Relief, Recovery, Reform,
- Relief - Immediate action taken to halt the economies deterioration.
- Recovery - "Pump - Priming" Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand.
- Reform - Permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure citizens against economic disasters.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. -
FCIC
On 16 June 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the 1933 Banking Act into law, creating the FDIC. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Roosevelt visited the families of homeless miners in Morgantown, West Virginia, who had been blacklisted following union activities. -
21st Amendment
the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920 -
SEC
an agency of the United States federal government. It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange's work for the RA and FSA brought the plight of the poor and forgotten – particularly sharecroppers, displaced farm families, and migrant workers -
The Dust Bowl
On the Plains, they often reduced visibility to 1 metre (3.3 ft) or less. Associated Press reporter Robert E. Geiger happened to be in Boise City, Oklahoma, to witness the "Black Sunday" black blizzards of April 14, 1935 -
The New Deal
the National Labor Relations Act ("Wagner Act"), the Banking Act of 1935, rural electrification, and breaking up utility holding companies -
SSA
an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.