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Frances Willard
National President of the Womens Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) -
The Great Migration
Mass movement of around 5 million southern blacks to the north and west -
1st Red Scare
Anarchists bombings that feared socialists, communists, and anarchists. -
Social Darwinism
"humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in "survival of the fittest." in the 1920's this was seen as a contribution to Nazi's and German Militarism. -
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the expansion of arts such as artisitic, literary, and intellectual from new black culture. -
Prohibition
The 18th amendment stated the Prohibition of all alcoholic beverages in America. Production, sale, transportation and all. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
This was a great speech referring to the way America lived before WWI and how Americashould go back to living that way. -
Marcus Garvey
Founded Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) He also Started the Black Star Line. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Warren G. Harding granted exclusive rights of the Teapot Dome Reserves secretly to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Case over John Scopes being accused of teaching evolution which was very criticized and against Tenesee state law. -
Clarence Darrow
He was a very famous trial lawyer. He was on the case of John Scopes also known as the "Monkey Trial" which was a trial for this teacher getting barred for teaching evolution. -
William Jennings Bryan
He was a worker for peace, prohibition and womens suffrage. He joined the trial of John Scopes because he was against the teaching of evolution in school. -
Langston Hughes
His first poetry book was published on this day. He also was a great influence on the artisitc contributions of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920's. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop floght across the atlantic ocean. -
Jazz music
There was actuallyan era of time known as the "Jazz Age" and it was after WWI until the Great Depression started in 1929. -
The Great Depression
The largest economic downturn in economic history of the West Industrial world. The Great Depression was starrted due to the stock market crash that wiped out wall street and lost many of the investors. Around half of the countries banks failed. Losing all money. Banks are no longer allowed to invest or sell stocks with clients money. They are allowed to loan, but not invest in stocks with it. FDR created "The New Deal" due to the Great Depression. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
On this day investors traded 16,410,030 trades in the New York Stock Echange, in a single day and billions of dollars were lost. Thousands of investors were lost and the stock tickers hours behind due to the fact that it couldn't handle how much trading was going on. -
Tin Pan Alley
A collection of Musicians, songwriters, and music publishers in New York City -
Eleanor Roosevelt
She played a key role in the social reform in the 1930's -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In 1932 FDR started his presidential Term, and used to the power of the government to make America live better. For nine years Franklin D. Roosevelt ran the "New Deal" which was a way to provide moeny, and job opporotunities to people and families in need of relief during the Great Depression. It didn't necesarilly end the Depression but it did help lessen it. -
Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motor Company. He introduced mass-production techniques to the auto-industry. Could produce more cars for less money. Anti-Union. Used thugs and spies to enforce plant discipline. -
Tenesee Valley Authority (TVA)
Helped bringing electricity to rural areas that couldn't aford it. -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Relief, Recovery, and Reform are the 3 parts of the New Deal initiative. The Relief included FERA, CWA, PWA, FCA, CCC, HOLC. Recovery included FSA, WPA, NIRA, AAA, NYA. The Reform consisted of the FDIC, FSLIC, SEC, FLSA, TVA, and SSA. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Created because of all the bank failures from the 1920's. -
The New Deal
A recorvery initiative that FDR proposed after the great depression to help the families in need of help throughout the country economically that were affected by the Great Depression -
20th amendment
The amendment that states when elected Government Offices terms end. -
21st amendment
Amendment repealing the 18th amendment which was the proibition of alcohol. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea was a photographer who took a collection of photos of displaced famers during The Great Depression. In 1934 she released her first collection. Considered a skilled documentary photographer. -
Securities & Exchange Commision
Regulated the excahnges where stocks and bonds are sold. -
The Dust Bowl
An era where States suchas Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma suffered from crucial dust storms caused by poor farming techniques. -
Social Security Administration
Helped provide for handicapped, unemployed, dependent, and aged. -
Federal Reserve System
Central banking system of the USA, granted teh legal rights to issuing the Fedreal Reserve Notes.
