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Frances Willard
An American Teacher,temprance mentor,and a women's suffragist.She was instrumetnal it the passing of the 18th and 19th Amendment.Even though she died before the 1920s she was instrumental to the sucess women went through during that period -
Federal Reserve System
The Central Banking System of The United States Of AMerica -
Prohibition
Prohibition is the act of prohibiting the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages.It was however repealed when an increase of crime was the result of it -
The Great Migration
The movement of over 6 million African Americans to the north in search of better jobs and looking to escape the racism of the south -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States. The Start of tin Pan alley is usually credited as happening during 1885 while the end of it is said to be around the Great Depression.Tin Pan Alley recieved its biggest boost of popularity in the 1920s -
Social Darwinism
It is a theory that individuals,groups, and people are subject to the same law of natural selection as plants and animals.Used mainly by the rich and wealthy.It is now largely discredited but was a big way of thinking in the 1920s -
Jazz Music
The period after the 1st World War and Before the Great Depression was known as the Jazz Age.Was Indirectly fueled by Prohibition -
Warren G.Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Warren G. Harding's Campaign promise it meant to get back to the way things were before World War 1 -
1st Red Scare
The fear Americans had of Communism throughout the 1920s -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, inspiring the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement.He believed that all African Americans should go back to africa and that we should start our own nation -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.It happened when oil that was suppsed to be for the Navy was sold to oil corporations.Led to even more public distrust for Warren G. Harding -
Clarence Darrow
A lawyer who was a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a Adocate for Georgist economic Reform.Defended John Scopes in the Monkey Trail -
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. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars.It Spanned the 1920s and led to more pride for African Americans -
Scopes Monkey Trial
was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. The trial was deliberately staged to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he purposely incriminated himself so that the case could have a defendant. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, and playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. -
Henry Ford
Was an American Industrialist and the founder of the Ford Motor Company was a pioneer due to his sponsoring of the assembly line for mass production -
Charles A. Lindbergh
An American Aviator made the first solo nonstop flight across the atlantic ocean -
Stock Market Crash
Happened when a bunch of Wall Street Investors traded 16 million shares to the New York Stock Exchange resulting in the loss of Billions.In the Aftermath Americas Spiraled downwards into the Great Depression -
The Great Depression
Was the deepest and longest lasting economic downturn in American History began soon After the stock market crash of 1929 the economy stayed down and wouldnt fully be turned around until 1939 when America Entered WWII -
The Dust Bowl
a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Was the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt and was the First Lady of the United States She Was the Longest Serving First Lady of the United States She Served as the United States Delegate at the U.N National Assembly -
20th Amendment
Sets the Dates at which federal United States goverment elected offices end and who suceeds the president if he is to die in office -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Was the 32nd President of the United States of America from 1933-1945 died in 1945 Came up with the New Deal to help battle the Great Depression -
"Relief ,Recovery,Reform"
President Roosevelt's keys to battling the Great Depression -
Tennessee Valley Authority
Was Part of President Roosevelt's New Deal to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Part of President Roosevelt's New Deal The FDIC provides deposit Insurance to depositors in US banks was Created to improve trust in American Banking Systems -
21st Amendment
Repaled the 18th Amendment which stated that the consumption of Alchohol for leisure purposes -
Dorothea Lange
An influential Photographer who recived lots of acclaim for her work during the Great Depression -
Securites And Exchange Comission
Part of President Roosevelt's New Deal it was Created to enforce the Federal Security Laws, propose securities rules, and regulate the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States -
Social Security Administration
Part of President Roosevelt's New Deal it is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits
