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Tin pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. -
Frances Willard
was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution. -
Clarence darrow
He was among the first attorneys to be called a labor lawyer.he became known as one of the leading attorneys of America and also helped organize the Populist Party in Illinois -
William Jennings Bryan
He was one of the most prominent figures of his day, but his political appeal was too limited to allow him to become a successful presidential candidate. -
Henry Ford
in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the industry. As a result, Ford sold millions of cars and became a world-famous company head. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
was the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
was one of the most outspoken women in the White House. -
Marcus Garvey
He was a leader of a mass movement called Pan-Africanism and he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League -
Dorothea Lange
known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration -
Langston Hughes
He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. -
Charles A. Lundbergh
the first solo transatlantic airplane flight in 1927. Before he took to the skies, however, Lindbergh was raised on a farm in Minnesota and the son of a lawyer and a congressman. -
Federal Reserve system
During times when job growth is low and the economy is stagnant, the Federal Reserve lowers the interest rates to spur economic growth. -
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 1916 and 1970. -
21 st Amendment
to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 16, 1919 -
Warren G. Harding's Return to Normalcy
was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan for the election of 1920. -
Harlem renaissance
1910s through the mid-1930s, the period is considered a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art. -
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. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The trial was the first to be broadcasted on live radio. -
Stock Market Crash Black Tuesday
On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. -
The Great Depression
was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Social Darwinism
is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection to human society. -
the Dust bowl
was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology in American during the 1930s -
20 th Amendment
The 20th amendment is a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal -
the new deal
The New Deal was a series of federal programs, public work, in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression.