Unit 5: Between the Wars

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  • Frances Willard

    She was a women's suffragist, and reformer. She sought to gain equal rights for Women. She was a Co-Founder of the "Woman's Christian Temperance Union".

  • Tin Pan Alley

    Was the 28th street between Broadway and Sixth, it was were a group of Music Publishers set up shop.

  • Federal Reserve System

    Created to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.

  • The Great Migration

    It was the migration of African-Americans from the South to the North because of economic and segregation issues.

  • Jazz Music

    Jazz music was first introduced in New Orleans it took a great part in the Harlem Renaissance.

  • Harlem Renaissance

    Was a growth of African American art,
    literature, music, dance, and theater
    in the United States.

  • 1st Red Scare

    It was the fear of communism getting in the United States.

  • Prohibition

    It was the created to reduce people from drinking, and selling alcohol.

  • Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"

    a return to the way of life before World War I, was a promise to the American people if he won the presidential election of 1920.

  • Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    Albert B. Fall had leased petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming private oil companies.

  • Scopes Monkey Trial

    Thomas Scopes was theaching his students about evolution which was agaisnt the law in Tennessee and religion.

  • William Jennings Bryan

    Was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, he took part in the Scopes trial shortly dying five days after it.

  • Langston Hughes

    Hughes wrote one of his most famous essays, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" which was about the racism in America.

  • Charles A. Lindbergh

    An American pilot, Lindbergh was the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean by himself nonstop.

  • The Great Depression

    It was the longest economic downturn in American history, began shortly after the Stock Market Crash.

  • Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"

    It was one of the most Impactful causes that made the Great Depression. Its the date when the stock market crashed. Due to this nearly half of Americas banks failed.

  • 20th Amendment

    Defines who succeeds the president if the president dies.

  • Tennessee Valley Authority

    Corporation in the United States made to provide economic development, manufacturing, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing.

  • The New Deal

    The New Deal was the plan introduced by FDR to get the American people out of the Great Depression.

  • "Relief, Recovery, Reform"

    Relief provided temporary help to suffering and unemployed Americans. Recovery was designed to help the economy bounce back from depression. Reforms were for the causes of the depression and sought to prevent a crisis like it from happening ever again.

  • 21st Amendment

    It was created to repeal the 18 amendment that was incharge of Prohibition. The 21st made it legal to drink alcohol again.

  • Securities & Exchange Commission

    The agency responsible for regulating the securitie industry and for enforcing federal securitie laws.

  • The Dust Bowl

    It was a time when there was massive dust storm caused by drought, tornados, and bad farming practices.

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    Guarantees the safety of deposits in banks to all people so you don't lose all of your money.

  • Social Security Administration

    Administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.

  • Clarence Darrow

    He was an American Lawyer. Known for th "Scopes Monkey Trial". Where he opposed William Jennings Bryan.

  • Marcus Garvey

    Garvey passed away, He was a political leader who thought African-Americans should go back to Africa then to stay in racist America.

  • Social Darwinism

    It was introduced to Americans by Richard Hofstadter in his book "Social Darwinism in American thought"

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    FDR was the President of the United States, he got us through the Great Depression with his New Deal plan. He is also the only President to have served more than two terms.

  • Henry Ford

    An American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited for creating the assembly line.

  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    She was the First Lady of the United States wife to FDR. Served as the first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, and oversaw the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  • Dorothea Lange

    She was a photographer and photojournalist during the Geat Deperssion.