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Social Darwinism is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and then tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection to human society.
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The tin pan alley was a name given to to the collection of New York city music artist and publishers who dominated popular music in the United States.
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She was an american educator and women's suffragist. She also was a temperance reformer.
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Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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It was created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.
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The Great Migration was the movement where 6 million African-Americans went out of the rural Southern United States.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
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Was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of bolshevism and anarchism.
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The Tea Pot 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.
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He was an American politician who served as the 29th President of the United States from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923. "Return to Normalcy" was a way of life in the 1920s and was Harding's campaign slogan.
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Marcus Garvey was a proponent of Black nationalism in Jamaica. He was the leader of a huge movement known as the "Pan-Africanism". He also founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.
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Was an American orator and politician from Nebraska.
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High school teacher John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man.
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Earliest inventor of then new literature art form, Jazz Poetry. He also celebrated black life and culture.
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An American aviator. He was the first one to fly across the Atlantic by himself, in one trip. With that, he became internationally famous.
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The stock market crashed and lots of people lost their money. It was later nicknamed as "Black Tuesday"
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The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
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The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world which started shortly after the stock market crashed.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission was established in 1934 to regulate the commerce in stocks, bonds, and other securities. After the October 29, 1929, stock market crash, reflections on its cause prompted calls for reform.
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Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.
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The 20th amendment is a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end and also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies.
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He was the United State's 32nd president.
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Tennessee valley authority was a federally owned corporation in the united states by congress.
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A cooperation that helped banks stay open and keep people's money in the bank safe.
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The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Which really allowed people to drink alcohol again.
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In the spring of 1935, Roosevelt launched a second, more aggressive series of federal programs, sometimes called the Second New Deal.
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Required either immediate, temporary or permanent actions and reforms and were collectively known as FDR's New Deal. The many Relief, Recovery and Reform programs were initiated by a series of laws that were passed between 1933 and 1938.
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A social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.
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She was an American documentary, photographer and photojournalist who shot the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1936
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Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States.
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He was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
