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Frances willard
Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879, and remained president until her death in 1898. She developed the slogan "Do Everything" for the WCTU, encouraging its membership to engage in a broad array of social reforms through lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publishing, and education. -
Clarence Darrow
leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. He defended high-profile clients in many famous trials of the early 20th century, including teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb for murdering 14-year-old Robert Bobby Franks (1924) -
William Jennings Bryan
He opposed Darwinism on religious and humanitarian grounds, most famously at the Scopes Trial in 1925 in Tennessee. He also became a promoter of Florida real estate, contributing to the Florida land boom of the 1920s. Five days after the conclusion of the Scopes case, which he won, Bryan died in his sleep. -
Henry Ford
introduced in December 1927 and produced through 1931, with a total output of more than 4 million. Subsequently, the Ford company adopted an annual model change system similar to that recently pioneered by its competitor General Motors . Not until the 1930s did Ford overcome his objection to finance companies, and the Ford-owned Universal Credit Corporation became a major car-financing operation -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
American politician, diplomat and activist.[1] She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office. -
Marcus Garvey
he organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) -
Langston Hughes
In November 1924, he moved to Washington, D. C. Hughes’s first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, 1926 was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926. He finished his college education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania three years later. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of financial panics -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan for the election of 1920. -
Prohibition
social Progressives in the Prohibition, Democratic, and Republican parties. It gained a national grass roots base through the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. After 1900 it was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League. -
Harlem Renaissance
African American populations migrated in large numbers from the South to the North, with prominent figures like W.E.B. Du Bois leading what became known as the Great Migration. -
1st Red Scare (1920)
widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included those such as the Russian Revolution and anarchist bombings. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
was a bribery incident that took place in the United States. Reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school .Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he purposely incriminated himself so that the case could have a defendant -
Jazz Music
start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the "Jazz Age". Jazz had become popular music in America, although older generations considered the music immoral and threatening to old cultural values. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday (October 29), the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 Black Thursday, and was the most devastating stock market crash -
The Great Depression
It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Tin Pan Alley
start of the Great Depression in the 1930s when the phonograph, radio, and motion pictures supplanted sheet music as the driving force of American popular music, while others consider that Tin Pan Alley continued into the 1950s when earlier styles of American popular music were upstaged by the rise of rock & roll, which was centered on the Brill Building. -
The Dust Bowl
severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
20th Amendment
Every beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3 -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
required either immediate, temporary or permanent actions and reforms and were collectively known as FDR's New Deal. -
The New Deal
federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression. Some of these federal programs included the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Civil Works Administration (CWA) -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FCIC)
provide stability to the economy and the failing banking system. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. -
21st Amendment
United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 16, 1919. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Independent, federal government agency responsible for protecting investors, maintaining fair and orderly functioning of securities markets, and facilitating capital formation. -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinist ideologies reflect Charles Darwin's own views on human social and economic issues. His writings have passages that can be interpreted as opposing aggressive individualism, while other passages appear to promote it. -
Dorothea lange
Work for Depression-era, and for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography