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Francis Willard
Founder of the World Woman Christain Temperance Union (1883). She was expert in pressure polictics and was a leader of the national Prohibition party. She resigned as president of the Chicago WCTU in 1877 and work briefly as director of women’s meetings. -
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Clarence Darow
In 1925, he volunteered to defend John Scopes right to teach evolution. He was a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. -
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William Jennings Bryan
Became a Nebraska congressman in 1890. Starred at the 1896 Democratic convention with his "Cross of Gold" speech, that favored to free silver. Bryan campaigned for peace, prohibition and suffrage, and increasingly criticized the teaching of evolution. -
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Henry Ford
He was responsible for transforming the automobile from an invention of unknown utility, but did not invent the automobile. He revolutionized assembly line modes of production for the automobile. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt became the 23rd presidentin 1933 and was the only president was elected four times. He lead the U.Ss through Geat Depression and WW1. He was greatly expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal. -
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Wife of President Roosevelt, changed her role of the First Lady through her active praticipation in American politics. After her husband suffered a polio attack in 1921, Eleanor stepped forward to help Franklin with his political career. -
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Marcus Garvey
Garvey was the leader of the Black Nationalism and Pan-African movements. During the 1920s, his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was the largest secular organization in African-American history. Indicated by mail fruad in 1923, he spent 2 years in prison before deported back to Jamaica. -
Social Darwinism
Describe as the idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence. Social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. -
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Dorothea Lange
Lange photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets during the Great Depression. Her first exhibition held in 1934. She established her reputition as a skilled documentary photographer. -
Jazz Music
BIrthplace of jazz is when African Americans in New Orleans was dancing to VooDoo rythems while Americans was stomping their feets to marches. New Orleans was the only place that allow African Americans to have drums. It made people freel alive and up on their feet. No one played it like how New Orleans play it. -
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Langston Hughes
Hughes was an American poet, novelist, ad playwrite about Afrcan American themes during the Harlem Renassaince during the 1920's. HIs first poem was published in 1921 and was later promoted by Vachal Lindsay. -
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh was rose to fame by politing his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, flew a first solo non stop flight from New York to Paris in 1927. During the involvement of WW2, he flew 50 combat missions. -
Federal Reserve System
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The Great Migration
Help relocate 6 million African Americans from the South to North, Midwest to West. It had a huge impact on urban life in the U.S. Many blacks headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that first arose during the First World War -
1st Red Scare (1920s)
The Red Scare refrer to the fear of communism. There were over 150,000 anarchists or communists in USA alone and this represented only 0.1% of the overall population of the USA. -
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Prohibition
18th amendment of the Consitution, which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors. Prohibition was difficult to enforce. The increas of illegal production and sales liquior, rise in gang violence and other crimes to stop Prohibition by the end of the 1920's. In 1933, when the 21st amendment would appeal to the 18th amendment, Prohibition era bring a close at the end of that year. -
Tin Pan Alley
Genre of American popular music that arose in the late 19th century. The phrase of in pan referred to the sound of pianos pounded by the so-called song pluggers, who demonstrated tunes to publishers. Tin Pan Alley was a sheet music for home consumption, songwriters, lyricists, and popular performers. -
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Harlem Renaissance
The new Negro Movement that took place between the end of WW1 and the middle of the 1930's. The Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity. Also included visual arts but excluded jazz. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
Relief - Immediate action taken to halt the economies deterioration.
Recovery - "Pump - Priming" Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand.
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Warren G. Harding "Return to Normalcy"
Warren G. Harding won the election of 1920 by a landslide on the promise of a “Return to Normalcy” which for Republicans in the 1920s, meant a return to big business. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Involved national security, big oil companies and bribery and corruption at the highest levels. The oil reserves had been set aside for the navy by President Wilson. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Begins with John Thomas Scopes, a high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. Punishable by fine to “teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.” -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
Investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest economic downturn in history. The Great Depression started as soon as the stock market crash happen in 1929. Over the next few years, consumers spending and investment dropped, causing deep inclines. President Roosevelt helped lesson the worst effect during the Depression. It did not fully turned around until after 1939, when WW2 kicked in. -
20th Amendment
Set the dates at which federal government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
21st amendment
The 21st amendment replead the 18th amendment, which had nationwide Prohibition on alcohol. In 1933, widespread public disillusionment led Congress to ratify the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition. -
The New Deal
By 1932, at least one quater of American workforce was unemployed during the Great Depression. When Roosevelt took president in 1933, he created the New Deal. It aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity to many Americans. Roosevelt’s New Deal permanently changed the federal government’s relationship to the U.S. populace. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA was created in 1933 and was dealing with floods, deforestation, and eroded land. The TVA helps reduce these problems by better farming, replanting trees, and building dams. It generates and surplus electricity, thats why this agency is important. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Provide stability to the economy and the failing banking system. America's financial markets lay in ruin. Due to the financial chaos by the stock market crash of October 1929, more than 9,000 banks had failed by March of 1933, signaling the worst economic depression in modern history. -
Securities and Exchange Commission
Was estalished to regulate the commerce in stocks, bonds, and other securites. After the stock market crash, reflections on its cause prompted calls for reform. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl happened by poor farming in the Great Plains, ecompassing thought OK and TX, neighboring sections of Kansas, New Mexico, and Colorado. Has little rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a potentially destructive combination. Winds easily picked up the loose topsoil and swirled it into dense dust clouds, called “black blizzards.” -
Social Security Administration
It became a law under President Roosevelt. It is one of the truly momentous legislative accomplishments in U.S. history. It is a sweeping bill that generate an array of programs to numerous groups of Americans.