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Frances Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temeperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Libertie Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform -
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 canidate for President of the United States -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production -
Warren G. Hardings
Warren G. Harding won the public's vote by promising a return to normalcy which was appealing after WWI. He managed to move the nation out of war time emergency and improved hiring, working standards, and agricultural legislature while in office -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism was used during the latter portion of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century as a biological justification to further the aims of laissez-faire capitalism, immigration control, eugenics, colonialism and Nazism -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945 -
Elanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most active, and well liked, First Lady.She spoke out against injustices where she saw them. She advocated women's rights before the modern day women's rights movement began and convinced her husband to appoint women to important positions in his administration. She supported civil rights for minorities, especially African Americans -
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 in the late 19th century and early 20th century -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements -
Jazz Music
The jazz age marked the popularity of a music that was unique to America in the sense that it was a blending of different cultures -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist , she was best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form called jazz poetry. He was also one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh was an american aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 21, 1927 -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System- Also known as the Federal Reserve or simply as the Fed- Is the central banking system of the United States -
1st Red Scare
The 1st Red Scare was two periods in history that featured the biggest times that fear took hold of Americans about communism, and its spread, and its supposed evil or bad effects -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding -
Scopes Monek Trial
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 -
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance was the moment in which African Americans decidedly promoted themselves as equals and relevant to the American culture -
Black Tuesday
On of the most famous stock market crash in history. Stocks lost 13% of their value on Black Tuesday. This date is known to be the beginning stage of the Great Depression. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations -
20th Amendment
The 20th Amendment was in to the United States Constitution whcih moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4-January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4-January 3. -
The New Deal
The New Deal provided people to have safer employment outlook for the people of the United States by establishing retirement funds and Social Security, as well as creating more jobs, preventing government corruption and helping the country avoid another Great Depression -
Relief,Recovery,Reform
Relief-Immediate action taken to halt the economies deterioration
Recovery- "Pump-Priming" Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand
Permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure citizens against economic disasters -
Tennesse Valley Authority
The Tennesse Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation provided insurance to personal banking accounts up to $5,000. These assured people that their money was safe and secure -
Prohibition- 18th Amendment
The Prohibition act was a time period when prohibiting the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages were no longer allowed -
21st Amendment
The 21st Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. -
Securities & Exchange Commission
The Securities & Exchange Commission, 1 was to Enforce and administer the Federal securities laws (these are the laws that govern trading and securities)
2 was the Draft of 2010-2015 strategic plan for securities and exchange commission -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties was a period of time were severe dust storms greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
Social Security Administration
The Social Security Administration was provided for old age, survivors, and disability insurance system of unemployment compensation, employers and employees contributed to the pension system -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910-1970
