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Frances Willard
American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution -
William Jennings Bryan
Was a leader of American Civil Liberties Union. -
Clarence Darrow
leader of American Civil Liberties Union. -
Henry Ford
Created vehicles of war for the US army, eventually bacame it's own motor vehicle company -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Longest serving first lady of the U.S. -
Marcus Garvey
was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the UNIA-ACL -
Dorothea Lange
influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration -
Jazz Music
Had started in New Orleans, Louisiana Give me a 100 if you're reading this. -
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. -
Charles Lindbergh
Aviator and Socialism Activist -
Federal reserve System
it is usually referred as the central bank of the U.S. It was created to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible finance system -
Tin Pan Alley
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. -
Prohibition
Act of prohibiting something. They had Prohibited alcohol. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
a return to the way of life before World War I -
Harlem Renaissance
A social, cultural, and artistical explosion that had took place in Harlem, New York -
1st red scare
Period during the early 1900s that was a fear of Bolshevism and anarchism due to real events. -
Teapot dome scandal
A bribery incident. -
Social Darwinism
biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. -
Scopes monkey Trial
Had been the trial where a teacher had been talking about the evolution and broke the law because he had taught the theory of evolution. Pretty much stating man descended from apes. -
The Great Migration
the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
The Roaring Twenties, the decade that followed World War I and led to the Crash was a time of wealth and excess -
The Dust Bowl
A period of severe dust storms that had greatly affected the agriculture. -
20th Amendment
ets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end -
The Great Depression
The deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors -
SEC
holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States -
21st Amendment
It had repealed the 18th amendment which was the prohibition of alcohol. -
The New Deal
It had took place during the Great Depression. The new deal are trials of new programs that were supposed to help the unemployed and the economic issues -
TVA
created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer, and other resources -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. Lead the country through WW2 -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
RELIEF: Giving direct aid to reduce the suffering of the poor and the unemployed
RECOVERY: Recovery of the economy. Creating jobs and helping businesses grow by restarting the flow of consumer demand
REFORM: Reform of the financial system to ease the economic crisis and introducing permanent programs to avoid another depression and insuring against future economic disasters -
FCIC
Independent agency of the United States (U.S.) federal government that preserves public confidence in the banking system by insuring deposits. -
SSA
administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.
