Unit 4 key terms

  • Jazz Music

    Jazz Music

    This is a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century.
  • John J. Pershing

    John J. Pershing

    John graduated from West Point in 1886 and served in the Spanish-American War, the Philippines Insurrection, the Mexican Expedition and was the overall American Commander in Europe during World War I. Following the war, he served as Army Chief of Staff.
  • Glen Curtiss

    Glen Curtiss

    He was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    He was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States.
  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey

    He was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. He then founded the Universal Negro Improvement Assocation and African Communitites League.
  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration.
  • Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes

    He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
  • Charles Lindbergh

    Charles Lindbergh

    The Lone Eagle, he was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.
  • The Great Migration

    The Great Migration

    This caused the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West had a huge impact on urban life in the United States.
  • Sussex Pledge

    Sussex Pledge

    This was a promise given by the German Government to the United States of America in response to US demands relating to the conduct of the First World War.
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare

    This brought the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents.
  • Battle of the Argonne Forest

    Battle of the Argonne Forest

    The battle was caused because the French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, supreme commander of the Allied forces, ordered massive attacks against the Germans all along the western front.
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    This was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
  • Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”

    Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”

    He failed to effort to ratify the League of Nations, economic stagnation and the failing Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding ran for president on a promise to return the nation to a better sense of normalcy.
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression

    The Great Depression caused bank closures and business failures and by its end, saw a lot of american unemployed.
  • The Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl

    The Great Plains was a egion devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. There was little rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a potentially destructive combination and dust.
  • The New Deal

    The New Deal

    The New Deal was an unprecedented number of reforms addressing the catastrophic effects that caused the Great Depression which helped the U.S.