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Frances Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Known as FDR, His ambitious slate of New Deal programs and reforms redefined the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. -
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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was a proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, inspiring the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement -
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Dorothea Lange
influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. -
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, and playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. -
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Charles Lindbergh
an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927 -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to 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. -
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism, term coined in the late 19th century to describe the idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in "survival of the fittest." -
21st Admenment
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Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Warren G. Harding won the election of 1920 by a landslide on the promise of a “return to normalcy”—which, for Republicans in the 1920s, meant a return to big business. In addition to its pro-business stance, -
1st Red Scare
The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants -
TeaPot Done Scandal
By executive order of the President can control of naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
knwn as Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man. -
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
Black Tuesday hits Wall Street as investors trade 16,410,030 shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors, and stock tickers ran hours behind because the machinery could not handle the tremendous volume of trading. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural. known as the "New Negro Movement," -
Securities & Exchange Commission
The SEC oversees securities transactions, activities of financial professionals and to prevent fraud. -
20th Amendment
the United States Constitution moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president -
Prohibition
ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
Relief: BANK HOLIDAY - closed all banks; government then investigated banks and only those that were sound were allowed to reopen. Recovery: ABANDONMENT OF GOLD STANDARD - executive order by FDR making it easier for money to get into circulation. Reconstruction Finance Corporation set new value of gold.
Reform: GLASS/STEAGALL ACT - gave government power to investigate banking conditions, vested greater regulatory powers in Federal Reserve Board -
Tennessee Vakkey Authority
Helped in times of flooding, providing electricity to homes and businesses, and replanting forests. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The FDIC is meant to prserve confidence in the baking system and insures ones money if something goes wrong -
The Dust Bowl
vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust, especially as a result of drought and porr farming practice. ran through what is known as the pan handle -
Social Security Administration
The SSA is a social security insurance program -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford is the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and develop the assembly line technique of mass production
