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Social Darwinism, the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature.
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Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, -
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City -
a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s
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The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding -
In 1924, Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S.
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The Immigration Act was a United States federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere. -
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. -
The Mexican Repatriation was the repatriation and deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to Mexico from the United States during the Great Depression. -
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; -
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is one of two agencies that supply deposit insurance to depositors in American depository institutions -
Part of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, combating high unemployment during the Great Depression by putting hundreds of thousands of young men to work on environmental conservation projects. -
A public corporation to improve the navigability and to provide for the flood control of the Tennessee River and to provide for reforestation and the proper use of marginal lands in the Tennessee. -
An independent federal government regulatory agency responsible for protecting investors, maintaining fair and orderly functioning of the securities markets
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The act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement. -
an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Roosevelt, during the years of the Great Depression. -
Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City which dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
