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Creator of Ford Motor Company
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Instramental influence in the passage of the 18th (prohibition) and 19th (woman suffrage) amendments.
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An American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberites Union and advocate of the Georgist economic reform.
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A dominant wing in the Deomocratic Party and a 3 time candidate for President of the United States.
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Claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics
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President of the United States from 1933-1945. Pulled the US out of the Great Depression
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Longest serving First Lady of the US. Holding from March 1933 - April 1945
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The orator of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africansim movements.
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Documentary photographer best known for her work for the Farm Security Administration.
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Name given to New York City music pulishers and songwrighters that dominated the music industry in the United States
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Innovator of the literary art form called "jazz poetry". Best known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Flew the distance of 3,600 statue miles in one seat monoplane. American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist.
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The movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural south United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.
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A more safe, flexible, and more stable way of running banks in the United States.
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A return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920. Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism, coined by Harding
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The time period between WWI and the Great Depression which was filled with partying and loud jazz music
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Widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchim in the United States due to real and imagined events
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Bribery incident in the United States during the Warren G. Harding administration
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Tennessee v. Scopes John Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which stated that it's unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. Scope was found guilty and fined $100 ($1,349 now)
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Black Tuesday hits Wall Street as investors trade 16,410,030 shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day.
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Deepest and longest economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world.
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Regulates the commerce in stocks, bonds, and other securities.
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A culture movemnet centered around black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars
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Adresses the most important issues in energy, environmental stewardship and development.
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Due to the improper plantation of crops, wind would come and sweep away the crops leaving families houses covered in dirt and sand and leaving the families poor
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Preserves public confidence in banking systems by deposit
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sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies.
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Prohibiting the manufacturing, storage, transportaion, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol
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Laws and programs passed by law to get the country up and running again during and after the great depression
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Repealed the 18th amendment which prohibited alcohol
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Administers social security, social insurance consisting of retirement, disability, and survivor benefits.
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Roosevelts way of fixing the depression