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Eleanor Roosevelt
She was one of the most outspoken women in the White House. She married Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1905. During her husband's presidency, Eleanor gave press conferences and wrote a newspaper column. -
The great migration
The Great migration had been known as the movement of 6 million africans. They had moved from southern US to Northern US. It had started 1910 and ended 1970 -
Federal Reserve System
The 1913 Federal Reserve Act created the current Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Act was to establish a form of economic stability in the United States through the Central Bank. The Federal Reserve Act is perhaps one of the most influential laws concerning the U.S. financial system. -
1st Red scare
The First Red Scare was a period during the 1920s. It had sparked a fear of communism taking place. It had started a communist revolution. The Russian revolution is one of the key reasons why this had took place. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was an orator who was proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement. He had found the universal Negro Improvement Association. He had also found African communities League. -
Frances Willard
Frances Willard was an American editor. She had been well known as a woman in the suffrage movement. She had took major part in the 18th and 19th amendments. -
Jazz Music
Jazz music had been very popular in the 1920s. Many people have associated it with the Harlem renaissance. Some people had started to call it the Jazz age. -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin pan Alley was the name given to New York city publishers and songwriters. The name was given to the people that dominated the 19th century. A large number of music publishers go there. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return for Normalcy"
Return to Normalcy was also another way of saying "return to the way you were before war had took place". Also, during the time, world war one had just took place, so that was their way of saying to ditch the ways of world war one. It had been Warren G. Hardings campaign promise to the world. -
Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States had started in 1920. Many saloons and businesses had to go out of business because of the prohibition. Due to the prohibition, the crime rate had increased majorly due to the illegal trades of alcohol. -
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was a really important man to society in the 1920s. Hughes was known to be an important writer/thinker. He was one of the first to start on Jazz poetry. He had published his first poem in 1921. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
The Tea Pot scandal took place between 1921-1922. It had been a bribery incident of the secret leasing of federal oil. The scandal had also been known as the Oil Reserves Scandal. -
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow had been a very famous lawyer and he was the lawyer of John Scopes. John scopes had been teaching evolution and had got arrested. He had volunteered for John scopes in 1925 -
William Jennings bryan
William Jennings Bryan had been a popular politician in the Democrat party. He was nominated three times as president. In 1925, he had joined in the trial of John Scopes. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford had created the Ford model T car. He had changed the assembly line mode of production. The making of the car had revolutionized the industry. Ford had ended up selling millions of vehicles. He had initiated the mass-production process. -
Scopes monkey trial
the Scopes Monkey trial took place in Dayton, Tennessee. High school teacher John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man. The trial was the first to be broadcasted on live radio. This had took place on July 10th, 1925. -
Charles A. Lindberg
Charles A. Lindberg was a very well known man in the 1920s. He was really well known to be the first man to fly a plane across the Atlantic in 1927. This had been a huge deal because no one else had ever been able to do that before until then -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression had been the longest economic disaster in history. The Depression had began after a stock market crash in October 1929. The depression had started from 1929-1939. Many people during the time period had became homeless and unemployed. -
Stock market crash "Black Tuesday"
Black Tuesday had also been known as the Wall street crash of 1929. It had been known as the greatest crash, or the stock crash market. It had been the most devastating crash in the history of the United States. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
Relief, Recovery and Reform had been known as the Three R's. They were introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. The three R's were made to address the problems of mass unemployment. -
The Dust Bowl
It was also known as the Dirty Thirties. It was a period of severe dust storms that damaged the agriculture of the U.S. during the 1930s. It was a severe drought and was cause by a failure to apply drylands farming methods. -
Social Darwinism
Social darwinism was an idea that humans had evolved from animals. It was also considered to be where humans struggle for existence which natural selection occurs. Natural selection is basically "survival of the fittest." -
20th amendment
The 20th amendment moved the beginning and ending of a president's terms. The amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933. A term would end January 20th -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United states. He had been well known due to the great depression. He became president and came up with the New deals. He was the only president to be elected four times. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The FDIC was to ensure that the people would receive their money if a huge bank failure was to happen again. The FDIC had been created in 1933. The FDIC provided much needed stability and confidence for the people in the U.S. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley authority was created in May 18th, 1933. It was created to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley. Tennessee had been an area that was greatly effected by the Great depression. -
21st Amendment
The 21st amendment Ends Prohibition of alcohol. It gives states the right to allow making of and selling of alcoholic beverages. They had originally prohibited alcohol but it had ended up not being one of the best ideas. -
Securities and exchange commission
The SEC had been created in 1935. The main primary goal of SEC was to enforce new laws passed. By doing the primary goal, it was to promote stability in the markets. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic era that took place in Harlem in the middle of the 1930s. During the time, Harlem had been a cultural center for drawing black writers, artists, and musicians. It had originally been known as the "New Negro Movement." -
The New Deal
The new deal was something Roosevelt created to help the people in the Great depression. It had been a variety of different organizations made to help out the U.S. Although many were declared unconstitutional, they had made great impact within the country. -
Social Security Administration
The SSA was created to provide social security to the people. For example, it provides for retirement, disabilities, and survivors' benefits. It was found on August 14, 1935. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange had been a well known photographer in the great depression. She took many popular photos in the great depression. One of her well known photos had been the Migrant Mother.
