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Frances Willard
Freances Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. -
william Jennings Bryan
Willian J Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States -
Clarence Darrow
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. -
Social darwinism
Social Darwinism is natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements -
franklin D roosevelt
The president that served 4 terms and was in control durring world war 2 -
Dorothea lange
an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration -
Tin Pan Alley
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Jazz Music
When jazz music became popular -
Langston Hughes
Langston was one of the first few innovators of jazz poetry. -
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The great migration
the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
federal reserve system
the central banking system of the United States -
First red scare
the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. -
Warren G Hardings "return to normalcy"
This was the return to normal life before world war 1 -
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Prohibition
the act of prohibiting the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages -
21st Amendment
repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. -
Tea pot dome scandal
a bribery incident that took place in the United States -
Scopes Monkey trial
This was a case in tennesse where a teacher illegally taught evolution in a class. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
He was the first person to fly non stop across the atlantic ocean. -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
relief for the unemployed and poor, recovery of the economy to normal levels, and reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression. -
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The Great Depression
the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
Stock Market Crash
The stock market crashed and a lot of people lost all of their money. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s -
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dust bowl
a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
20th amendment
sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end -
Tennesse valley Authority
a federal agency that controls the electricity, irrigation and flood control from the dams and reservoirs along the Tennessee River. -
Eleanor roosevelt
an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States -
Securities and exchange commision
A government commission created by Congress to regulate the securities markets and protect investors -
social security administration
an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
an independent agency of the United States ederal government that preserves public confidence in the banking system by insuring deposits.
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