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Frances Willard:
She was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist played a big part in the 18th and 19th amendment. She became the corresponding secretary of the Chicago Woman`s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1874. -
Henry Ford
American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Ford introduced revolutionary new mass-production methods, Like large production plants, the use of standardized, interchangeable parts and then ten years later the world’s first moving assembly line for cars was made. -
William Jennings Bryan
He served two terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska and was United States Secretary of State and Famous speaker and politician from Nebraska, a well known force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, Bryan ran three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States. -
Jazz Music
A music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues. Jazz exploded during the prohibition era. -
Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)
The story of the Tennessee Valley Authority starts with Muscle Shoals, a stretch of the Tennessee River where the river drops 140 feet in 30 miles. The drop in elevation created the rapids or "shoals" that the area is named for and made passage farther upstream impossible. The federal government got the land in 1916, with the intentions of constructing a dam that would generate electricity needed to produce explosives for the World War I effort, but the war ended without it being built. -
The Great Migration
It was the relocation of a little over 6 million African Americans from the countryside South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, that eventually had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. -
1st Red Scare
A nationwide fear of communists, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents suddenly grabbed the American psyche in 1919 following a series of anarchist bombings. This fear became an almost reality after WW1. Innocent people were jailed for expressing their views, civil liberties were ignored and that’s when things got real. -
Tin Pan Alley
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. The origins of the name "Tin Pan Alley" are unclear till today. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. -
Marcus Garvey
During World War I and the 1920s, his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was the largest black secular organization in African-American history. Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”:
When the troops return back home from WW1, they had to return to going back to a “normal” life. It was a speech that ultimately lead to a nickname for his campaign for the 1920 presidential election. Harding used the promise of bringing normalcy back to the country as his main goal. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
It was the most serious scandal in the country’s history scandal began a while before when government and officials, were contemplating for something new, and then realized they needed a fuel supply that was more reliable and more portable than coal. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow as an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union Darrow was best known for protecting two killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. The law, which had been passed in March, made it a misdemeanor punishable by fine to “teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals. -
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity. “Negro life is seizing its first chances for group expression and self determination.”- Alain Locke -
Stock Market Crash “Black Tuesday"
October 24, 1929 the “most devastating” stock market crash in the history of the United States. Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 the fall began. A record 12,894,650 shares were traded that day. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
As first lady, Eleanor traveled across the U.S. She was an early champion of civil rights for African Americans, as well as an advocate for women, American workers, the poor and young people. She supported government-funded programs for artists and writers. She encouraged her husband to appoint more women to federal positions, and she held hundreds of press conferences for female reporters only at a time when women were typically barred from White House press conferences. -
The Great Depression: 1929-1939
The Great Depression started shortly after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and it wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output. The unemployment rate increased rapidly because companies had to lay off workers. -
Prohibition
18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution–which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors. Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages. -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. This bank too a big hit when the Great Depression was going on, because The federal reserve coordinates all regulatory activities and examines banks periodically. The FRS did NOT work well because the 12 regional banks each acted independently -
Franklin D Roosevelt
With the country in the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt immediately wanted to restore public confidence. He would speak directly to the public in a series of radio broadcasts or “fireside chats.” His ambitious slate of New Deal programs redefined the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. -
The New Deal
When Franklin Roosevelt took office, he acted swiftly to try and stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. Over the next eight years, the government instituted a series of experimental projects and programs, known collectively as the New Deal, that aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity to many Americans. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The corporation was established to prevent a repetition of the losses that occurred during the Great Depression when bankrupt banks could not return the money back to the people. The FDIC provides coverage for deposits in national banks, in state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System, and in other qualified state banks. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
The SEC was known to be the “watchdog” for Wall Street. It was responsible for protecting U.S. investors from potential loss of income by maintaining fair, efficient, and orderly market. The commission requires businesses to disclose meaningful information about securities they sell, so that investors can make informed decisions. -
20th Amendment
The 20th amendment is a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end. It also defines who replaces the president if the president dies. -
21st Amendment
The 21st amendment was an a terrible attempt and huge failure of prohibition, which led to people disrespecting the law and criminals to do well selling illegal alcohol to those that wanted it. Repealing the 18th amendment didn’t make alcohol completely legal through the entire country. Many states decided to keep anti-alcohol laws for a long time after the 21st amendment. -
Dorothea Lange
During the Great Depression, Lange photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets. Her photographs of migrant workers were often presented with captions featuring the words of the workers themselves. Lange’s first exhibition established her reputation as a skilled documentary photographer. -
The Dust bowl
The name was given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. Most early settlers used the land for livestock until agricultural mechanization and with the high grain prices during World War I pushed farmers to farm more acres of natural grass cover to plant wheat rather than to have for livestock. -
“Relief, Recovery, Reform”: 1933-1938
They were known as the 'Three R's'. They were introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis. The many Relief, Recovery and Reform programs were initiated by a series of laws that were passed between 1933 and 1938. -
Charles Lindbergh
After returning to the United States in 1939, Lindbergh became a prominent advocate of American isolationism. But when war came, he secretly flew fifty combat missions in the Far East, shot down a Japanese fighter, and proved that the combat radius and bomb-load capacity of several U.S. fighter aircraft could be increased. -
Social Security Administration (SSA): 1940-1947
The Social Security Special Benefits for qualified WWII Veterans benefits are a federally funded program administered by the U.S. SSA that can be paid to certain World War II Veterans. These include Veterans who served in the active U.S. military from September 16, 1940 through July 24, 1947. -
Social Darwinism
“Survival of the fittest” The theory that persons, groups, and races are subject to the same laws of a natural selection as Charles Darwin had perceived in plants and animals in nature. a belief that the strongest or fittest should survive and flourish in society while the weak and unfit should be allowed to die.