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Tin Pan Alley
It is a nickname for a popular music houses in NYC. Started in 1800-1953 -
Social Darwinism
The belief that only the fittest survive in human politcal and econmoic stuggle. -
Frances Willard
Had a great influence of the establishment of the 18th and 19th amendment. She was a leader of the Women's Christian Tempreance Movement Union. -
Henry Ford
He introuduced the first model T automoblie. He is the founder of 4 motor company. His automoblies were sold at an afforable price. -
The Great Migration
More than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws. -
Willam Jennings Bryan
In 1890, Willam became a Nebraska congressman. Later on in 1912 he served as Wilson’s secretary of state until 1914. -
Federal Reserve System
Is the central banking system of the United States. -
1st Red Scare
Caused by the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the impact of World War One in America. Ended in 1920 -
Harlem Renaissance
Was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that led a new black cultural identity. -
Marcus Gravey
He founded the Negro improvement association. He supported the migration of african americans moving back to Africa. He was convicted of fraud and deported. After that, his organization failed. -
Prohbition
Banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors. In early 1933, Congress adopted a resolution proposing a 21st Amendment to the Constitution that would repeal the 18th. -
Langston Hughes
He was an american poet, novelist, and playwrite during the Harlem Resnassinse and published his first peom in 1921 and in 1926 he published his first book. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
He campagin in the elcetion of 1920; was elected the 29th U.S. president on his birthday. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Was a bribery incident that took place in the United States; ended in 1922. -
Clarence Darrow
He was a famous criminal defense lawyer who suppported evoulution. He made a fool out of a man named Willam Bryan Jenning, when he questioned him about the bible. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
A young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charle flew pilots around the world for his jobs. To fame by piloting his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, on the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris. Also, Lindbergh assisted in selecting sites for air bases overseas until turning to environmental causes late in life. -
Jazz Music
The Jazz music became very popular during the great depression. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. -
The Great Depression
Was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. Consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies laid off workers. -
The Dust Bowl
The soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor, so the winds easily picked up the loose topsoil and swirled it into dense dust clouds. The name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. -
The New Deal
Roosevelt’s New Deal permanently changed the federal government’s relationship to the U.S. populace. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
Were introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis. -
20th Amendment
This amendment sets the date at which federal government elected offices ended. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was the 32 president, he was the only president to be elective 4 times. Because of him modern presidents are only allow to serve two terms. He was also the man who got the US through the Great Depression. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
FDR wife; she supported the new deal program and worked for better working conditions for women. 1905 she married FDR. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
TVA provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corproation (FDIC)
Was created by the 1933 Banking Act after the Great Depression to restore trust in the American banking system. -
21st Amendment
Mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol. -
Dorothea Lange
She was a photographer who capitivated what farmer's lives were like during the great depression. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Created by Congress to regulate the securities markets and protect investors. -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
A system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
