unit 5 key terms

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  • Frances Willard

    Frances Willard

    American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.
  • clarence Darrow

    clarence Darrow

    leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union,
  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan

    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.
  • henry ford

    henry ford

    the founder of the Ford Motor Company,
  • warren d harding

    warren d harding

    29th President of the United States,
  • social darwinism

    social darwinism

    modern name given to various theories of society that emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, which claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics
  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey

    Jamaican political leader,
  • tin pan alley

    tin pan alley

    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.
  • Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes

    American poet. one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
  • Charles Lindbergh

    Charles Lindbergh

    an American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist.
  • 1st red scare

    1st red scare

    The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920.
  • tea pot dome scandal

    tea pot dome scandal

    a bribery incident that took place in the United States
  • scopes monkey trial

    scopes monkey trial

    The trial of John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law.
  • stock market crash

    stock market crash

    DJIA fell 12% - one of the largest one-day drops in stock market history. More than 16 million shares were traded in a panic selloff.
  • prohibition

    prohibition

    act of prohibiting the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages
  • harlem renassance

    harlem renassance

    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.
  • the great migration

    the great migration

    the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West
  • jazz music

    jazz music

    A form of American music that grew out of African-Americans' musical traditions at the beginning of the twentieth century