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Prohibition
was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production importation transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933 -
Tin Pan Alley
is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated -
Marcus garvey
was a Jamaican political leader publisher journalist entrepreneur and orator -
Frances Willard
Educator author temperance and women's rights activist, social reformer -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh strapped into his famous airplane “The Spirit of St. Louis” & took off on the first ever non stop flight from New York to Paris -
harlem renaissance
the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion -
Clarence Darrow
was an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist the founder of the Ford Motor Company and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production -
The Great Migration
was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970 -
jazz music
If freedom was the mindset of the Roaring Twenties then jazz was the soundtrack -
The Great Depression
was the deepest and longest lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world -
The new deal
one of the bleakest years of the Great Depression at least one quarter of the American workforce was unemployed -
20th Amendment
the 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
was an American politician diplomat and activist -
21st amendments
the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution -
the dust bowl
the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the U.S. and Canadian -
Dorothea Lange
was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist best known for her Depression era work for the Farm Security Administration