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Frances Willard
Frances Willard was a temperance reformer, and women's suffrage. She helped impact the doing of the 18th and 19th Amendments. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was a lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was a 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. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an industrialist, he found Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was president of the United States for 4 terms. He helped during the Great Depression, and during WW2. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
She was the First Lady of the United States from March 1933 to April 1945 -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey became a leader in the black nationalist movement. In the the 1920s, his Universal Negro Improvement Association was the largest secular organization in African-American history. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange she was best known for her photography during the Great Depression -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was a poet, and social activist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh also known as Slim or Lucky LIndy was an aviation, inventor, military officer and a social activist. -
The Great Migration
The movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest -
The Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is a central bank to help provide the nation with a more flexible, and stable monetary and financial system -
Prohibition
An era which alcohol could not be sold manufactured, possessed, or consumed. -
1st Red Scare
the First Red Scare was about worker revolution and political radicalism. -
Tin Pan Alley
Group of New York City music composers to were very popular music of jazz in late 19th century and early 20th popular -
20th Amendment
The amendment to where prohibition was mandated nationwide. The 21st amendment was ratified December 5, 1933 -
Social Darwinism
it's a tern to describe the idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence. Kind of like "Survival of the Fittest" -
Jazz Music
Music that originated from African American music traditions at the beginning of the 1920's -
Return to Normalcy
The promise Warren G. Harding made that life will go back to the way it was before WW1 as his presidential candiate speech. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
a bribery incident that took place in the U.S. during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
A a high school teacher in Tennessee, named John Scopes was taken to court for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law. -
Harlem Renaissance
A time where art, music and social boom took place. It started at the end of WW1 and early 1930's -
Black Tuesday
the day sellers traded nearly 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Black Tuesday is often cited as the beginning of the Great Depression. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression is an Era whenever the stick markets crashed and there was no much money the economy was at it's loweest. -
20th Amendment
This act was to severely cut down the official in the final period of office -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Relief means immidiate help. Recovery means rebuilding reform means changing things so the depression wouldn't happen ever. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs such as the Relief,Recovery and Reform thing, to help the conomy and the people during the Great Depression -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The TVA is a corporation that provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation provided insurance to personal banking accounts up to $5,000, to make sure people's money was safe. -
Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC)
The Securities And Exchange Commission was made to regulate the securities markets and protect investors. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowll was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US. This was caused by overly plowing fields in soil was wasn't fertile. -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
Social Security Administration (SSA) is a social insurance program created by the government that provides benefits. for retirement, disability, and survivors'.
