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Social Darwinism
A claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. -
Frances Willard
Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) -
Henry Ford
Invented the car test drove on june 4th -
The Great Migration
Was the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
William Jennings Bryan
Presidant March 5, 1913 – June 9, 1915 -
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. -
jazz music
Nick LaRocca and his Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded the first Jazz record, "Livery Stable Blues." -
Tin Pan Alley
The start of Broadway -
Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. -
1st Red Scare
The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included those such as the Russian Revolution as well as the publicly stated goal of a worldwide communist revolution. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalacy"
His campain promice. -
Tea Pot 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. -
Marcus Garvey
Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) -
Clarence Darrow
He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks (1924). -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the 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. -
Langston Hughes
He was a poet. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
The Great Depression
Our longest economic downfall. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
The stock market crashed and everyone paniced and drew out their money, it's one of the deciding factors of the Great Depression. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was 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. -
The Dust Bowl
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 US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon. -
TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Started his presidancy in this year. -
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. -
20th Amendment
The 20th Amendment sets the end of fedural government elections. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office -
Three R's
The Relief, Recovery and Reform programs -
21st Amendment
The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. -
SEC
Securities & Exchange Commission -
Dorothea Lange
From 1935 to 1939, Dorothea Lange's work for the RA and FSA brought the plight of the poor and forgotten – particularly sharecroppers, displaced farm families, and migrant workers – to public attention. Distributed free to newspapers across the country, her poignant images became icons of the era. -
SSA
Social Security Administration (SSA) -
FCIC
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation