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Unit 4 The Inter-War Years

  • Social Darwinism

    Social Darwinism

    various theories and societal practices that purported to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival
  • Lost Generation (artists)

    Lost Generation (artists)

    known as being the cohort which primarily fought in World War I.
  • Tin Pan Alley

    Tin Pan Alley

    New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century
  • Charles A. Lindbergh

    Charles A. Lindbergh

    Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist.
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance

    an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City,
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal

    Convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies, Fall became the first presidential cabinet member to go to prison
  • American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

    American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

    Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S.
  • Immigration Act of 1924

    Immigration Act of 1924

    United States federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants
  • deportation and repatriation of people of Mexican heritage

    deportation and repatriation of people of Mexican heritage

    The Mexican Repatriation was the repatriation and deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to Mexico from the United States during the Great Depression
  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl

    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
  • Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC).

    Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC).

    was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FCIC)

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FCIC)

    one of two agencies that supply deposit insurance to depositors in American depository institutions, the other being the National Credit Union Administration, which regulates and insures credit unions.
  • Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

    Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

    an independent federal government regulatory agency responsible for protecting investors, maintaining fair and orderly functioning of the securities markets, and facilitating capital formation.
  • Works Progress Administration (WPA)

    Works Progress Administration (WPA)

    an American New Deal agency, that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects,
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

    Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

    an American New Deal agency, that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects,