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Jazz music
music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century. -
John J. Pershing
General that led his soldires to victory in WW1 against the germans. -
Warren G. Harding's " Return to Normalcy"
A return to the way things were before the first World war wanted healing time instead of peace time. -
Glenn Curtiss
An 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. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements -
Alvin York
Known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. -
Dorothea Lange
influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. -
Langston Hughes
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
nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. -
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The Great Migration
relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. -
Sussex Pledge
Promise made by the germans that they would not torpedo any passenger ships without warning -
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Red Scare
a nation-wide anti-radical hysteria provoked by a mounting fear and anxiety that a Bolshevik revolution in America was imminent—a revolution that would change Church, home, marriage, civility, and the American way of Life. -
Battle of the Argonne Forest
a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice on November 11 -
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Harlem Renaissance
the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. -
Treaty of Versailles
It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. -
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Dust bowl
a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the Phenominon -
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The New Deal
a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938
