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Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is a belief that people, groups, and races and subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animals in nature. -
Tin Pan Alley
The collection of New York City musics publishers and songwriters in the united states in the late 19th century and early 20th century. West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue, Manhattan. -
Frances Willard
The national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Her vision progressed to include federal aid to education, free school lunches, unions for workers, the eight hour work day and many other improvements in the United States. -
Federal Reserve System
Made in response to the financial panics before and during the great depression. -
The Great Migration
The movement of 6 million blacks from the southern United States to the west. -
Jazz Music
Jass music began in New Orleans and is considered to be the only true "Ameican" music. Many people believed it was curropting youth. One of the most famous jazz musicians was Louis Armstrong. -
Prohibition
The banning of alcohol in the United States. Apparently alcohol was making America a bad country and keeping us from progressing. This didn't last and ended in 1933 -
1st Red Scare
There were many immigrants from europe at the time and in russia, the Buoshevik Revolution was taking place. Communism was starting to become scary and many people died. A lot of people were dying in communist Russia and the United States did not like anything about it and was scared. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy
A return to the way of life before WWI. Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920 -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal took place in Wyoming on a naval oil reserve. Reserves were illegally sold to private companies. The person in change, Harding, died before the scandal was discovered. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Before this there was the Tennessee Butler act of 1925, which prohibited teaching evolution in schools. John Scopes violated this law and was arresteed. This case was all over the radio and in newspapers. Some people were called in as "expert witnesses" on the bible. -
William Jennings Bryan
The Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1896, 1900, and 1908. He supported Prohibition, and was against Darwinism. He was called "The Great Commoner" -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
Panicked sellers traded about 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The beginning of the Great Depression -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression started because of the October 1929 stock market crash. A drop in farm prices, uneven distribution of income, overextension of credit and materialism all contributed to the Great Depression. Many people lost their jobs and millions of dollars were lost practically overnight. -
Harlem Renaissance
African Americans began to take part in musical, literary, and artisitc activities. This happened in Harlem, New York. A lot of people changed their perspectives on african americans. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dirty Thirties. There were extreme dust storms in the west and midwest that cost many their lives, homes, and work. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
Relief, Recovery, and Reform were the three parts of Roosevelts New Deal. Relief was immediate action to stop the econoomic deterioration. Recovery was "pumping and primming" temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand. Reform was permanent progams to avoid another depression. -
20th Amendment
Sets the date at which federal government elected offices end and who succeeds if a president dies in office. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
A federally ownded corporation that provides navigation, flood control, electricity, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Created by the 1933 Banking Act to restore trust in the American banking system after the Great Depression -
21st Amendment
The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment which mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol. -
Securities & Echange Commission (SEC)
Responsible for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry after the great depression. -
Social Security Administation (SSA)
Administers Socail Security and social insurance programs consisiting of retirement, disability, and survivors benefits. -
The New Deal
Domestic programs released between 1933 and 1938 to help get the united states out of depression and back on its feet. Started by Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Clarence Darrow
A lawyer and member of the American Civil Liberties Union and advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
Marcus Garvey
Led the "Back to Africa" movement and founded the Funiversal Negro Improvement Association. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR was a distant relative of Theodore Roosevent and he married his cousin. He was paralyzed from polio in 1921. He was the president of the united states for two terms and during these terms he establish the New Deal program and helped the United States get out of the depression it was in. He died on April 12, 1945 -
Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motor Company and developer of the assembly tine techniqu of mass production. He developed the first car for the middle class american and untimatley aided in the development of the suburbs. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
The first lady to president FDR. She did a lot of work while her husband was paralyzed in office. -
Dorothea Lange
During the Great Depression, Lange photographed the people who were suffering. Her photography was meant to make people really see how people are and how life really was during that time. -
Langston Hughes
He was one of the innovators of the literary art form called Jazz Poetry during the Harlem Renaissance. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh was a celebrity who flew solo from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours to win Orteig Price for the first nonstop transatlantic slight.
