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Frances Willard
Frances Willard was the head of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union from 1879 until her death, Willard changed the WCTU from a conservative organization into more of a woman’s rights movement with a bunch of social problems, including the right to vote. She created the phrase “Home Protection” to encourage women to expand their influence beyond the family circle, including fighting prostitution and venereal disease. -
Clarence Darrow
In 1925 he volunteered to defend John Scopes right to teach evolution, -
William Jennings Bryan
He was at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech but was defeated in his bid to become president by William McKinley -
Henry Ford
One of Americas best industrialists, Henry Ford revolutionized the assembly-line of production for cars -
Social Darwinism
is the theory that people and certain groups are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection like plants and animals. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term as governor of New York when he was elected as the nation’s 32nd president in 1932 -
Eleanor Roosevelt
She was the First Lady and was a leader in her own right and involved in numerous humanitarian causes throughout her life -
Tin Pan Alley
It was the nickname given to a street where a bunch of music publishers worked in 1880 to 1953. In the late 19th century, New York was known for their of songwriters and music publishing, and publishers were on the block of West 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a leader for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements,and he he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Garvey advanced a Pan-African philosophy which inspired a global movement, Garveyism. -
Dorothea Lange
During the Great Depression, Dorothea Lange photographed unemployed men. Her photographs of migrant workers were often showed with quotes they've said themselves -
Langston Hughes
He went to Columbia University, but left after a year to travel. His poetry was promoted by Vachel Lindsay, and Hughes published his first book in 1926. He wrote a bunch of poetry, prose and plays, as well as a popular column for the Chicago Defender. -
Charles A Lindbergh
Charles was a American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots crossed the Atlantic before him but Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone without stopping. -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve is the central bank system of the United States that includes the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C, and 12 independent regional Reserve banks. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was when more than 6 million african americans moved from the south to the north, -
Prohibition
The 18th amendement which was the illegalization of the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the United States between 1920 and 1933. -
The Red Scare
Many people in the United States feared recent immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who followed communist, socialist, or anarchist things -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
this became a nickname for his campaign for the 1920 presidential election. Warren used this as a promise of bringing normalcy back to the country -
Jazz Music
ending the great depression and a post-World War I movement in the 1920s from which jazz music and dancing became popular -
Harlem Renaissance
the Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that created a new black culture identity -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s involved national security, big oil companies and bribery and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the U.S. It was the most serious scandal in the countrys history. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
John Scopes was a young high school science teacher was accused of teaching evolution in which is against the Tennessee state law, which was passed in march made it a misdemeanor to “each any theory that denies the story of the creation of man thats taught in the Bible -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Relief - Immediate action taken to stop the economies deterioration.
Recovery - Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand.
Reform - Permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure citizens against economic disasters. -
The Great Depression
The American economy entered a crash in the stock market during the summer of 1929, as buyer spending dropped and unsold goods began to pile up, slowing the production -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
Black Tuesday got to Wall Street because investors created 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. Because of Black Tuesday America and the rest of the industrial world got into the Great Depression -
The New Deal
When President Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted quickly to try and stabilize the economy and provide jobs to those who were suffering -
20th Amendment
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th of January and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the TVA Act on May 18, 1933. TVA established a unique problem-solving approach. Each issue the TVA faced whether it was power production, navigation, flood control, malaria prevention, reforestation or erosion control was thoroughly studied -
21st Amendment
The United States Constitution repealed the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was to remove the nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 16, 1919 -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
preserves and promotes public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and thrift institutions by identifying, monitoring and addressing risks to the deposit insurance funds -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region ruined by a drought in the 1930s. The 150,000-square-mile area, that included Oklahoma and Texas, and parts of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, has little rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a destructive combination -
Securities and Exchange Commission
Their responsibility is enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, regulating the securities industry, and the nation's stock and options exchanges -
Social Security Administration
The Social Security Administration assigns social security numbers for people
