Unit 5 Key Terms

  • Francis Willard

    She was in the Women's Christian Temperance Union and was a key person to women's right success.
  • Clarence Darrow

    He was an American lawyer and served as an important member in the American Civil Liberties Union
  • William Jennings Bryan

    Prosocuter in the Scopes Trials.
  • Henry Ford

    Created the assmebly line for producing mass quantitities of products. Also created Ford vehicles.
  • Social Darwinism

    Biological concepts of natural selection and survivial of the fitest
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    Longest serving First Lady of the United States, and served as an American politician, diplomat and activist
  • Tin Pan Alley

    Colection of Newy York music artists that were popular
  • Marcus Garvey

    Founded Universal Negro Improvement Association, many blacks saw him as flamboyant
  • Dorothea Lange

    Photographer and journalist, famous from the depression era.
  • Langston Hughes

    Harlem Renaissance, social activist, "jazz poet"
  • The Great Migration

    Black moved to Northern cities for better opportunities, lived in ghettos, still much discrimination in North
  • Federal Reserve System

    Central banking system of the United States.
  • Prohibition

    Prohibition was America TRYING to make alcohol illegal for everyone (except for medical and religious purposes,) proved to be practically impossible.
  • Harlem Renaissance

    A time where black wirters, actors (actresses,) artists, musicians, become famous and were very very popular after World War 1.
  • Jazz Music

  • 1st Red Scare

    This was a "Nationwide Fear" that communists were going to take over America.
  • Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"

    When Harding was trying to run to become president he gave the speech "Return to Normalacy" referring to return to how America was before World War 1.
  • Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    This happened when Secretary Albert Bacon Fall was leasing oil reserves secretely (and illegally.)
  • Scopes Monkey Trial

    A teacher tried to teach the Theory of Evolution, but was arrsted. After many court trials, it was ruled unconstitutional to have a law against teaching evolution.
  • Charles A. Lindbergh

    Flew solo from New York to Paris in 33 1/2 hours
  • The Great Depression

    Stock market crashes, drops in farm prices, overextension of credit, "get rich quick" schemes- all went downhill at stock market crash 1929
  • Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday

    banks incested heavily in the market, the collapse of the stock amrket lead to bank failures, people became poor, couldn't withdrawal money, people died and killed themselves, had to sell their kids
  • The Dust Bowl

    Famrers did not keep land in the "west" hydrated, the climate became windy and strted blowing dust everywhere so everyone decided to move away.
  • The New Deal

    The nickname for FDR's economic program consisting of three parts; relief, recovery, reform.
  • 20th Amendment

    Makes the terms of the people that are in office.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    The only president to serve for 4 terms. (Was really good)
  • Relief, Recovery, Reform

    The three parts of FDR's "New Deal"
  • Tennesse Valley Authority

    Created to assist the Tennesse Valley area, to provide food control and cheap hydroelectric power.
  • 21st Amendment

    Repealed the 18th amendmented that prohibited alcohol.
  • Securities and Exchange Commission

    SEC's purpose to provide market stability and to protect investors.
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    They are responsible for insuring deposits made by individuals and companies in banks and other thrift institutions.
  • Social Security Administration

    An independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security.