Unit 5 Key Terms

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    Frances Willard

    Frances Willard was a women's suffragist. She was a influence of the 18th and 19th amendment in the constitution. She was the president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union which is a program used to help push the banning of alcohol.
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    Clarence Darrow

    He was a lawyer and a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform.
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    William Jennings Bryan

    He was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. He is known for being a dominant force in the populist wing of the democratic party. He was a nominee for president of the united states
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    Henry Ford

    Founder of the current car company Ford. He was the first to use the assembly line in factories making labor cheaper. A popular car he made was the model T.
  • Social Darwinism

    Social Darwinism
    Is the belief that humans, just like plants and animals, fight and compete for existence in this world. This belief came from the thought of something as silly as skin color can drive humanity mad.
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    Eleanor Roosevelt

    she was a former first lady and married to the former president franklin d roosevelt.
  • Tin Pan Alley

    Tin Pan Alley
    Tin pan Alley was a place where it is recorded to be the best music of the 18th and 18th century music (at this time jazz music). They also included music for ballads, dance music, and vaudeville
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    Franklin D Roosevelt

    He was a 32nd president. He was the founder of the idea of New Deal to pull america out of its depression in 1929. "The only thing he have to fear is fear itself"
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    Marcus Garvey

    He was a political leader. A civil rights activist who fought for De-segregation. He was the proposal of the Pan-African Americanism movements. A famous quote of his "If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."
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    Dorothea Lange

    she was a photographer. She is most known for her work in photographic of great depression photos
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    Langston Hughes

    He formed the first jazz poetry literary form in the 1920s. He was a civil rights activist who would right poems about segregation. Also wrote some poems as a song of protest.
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    The Great Migration

    This was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural South areas of the United States to the urban areas in the Northeast, Midwest, and West.
  • Start Of The Jazz Age

    Start Of The Jazz Age
    This was a belief to be s spark from African American art known as the African American renaissance. This start about when World War 1 ended, and from the beginning of the Great Depression.
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    Harlem Renaissance

    This was the growth and inspiration of African American culture, such as music and arts. This was also were some promotion of the jazz age grew. This was also a way white people saw a bit of african american culture.
  • Prohibition Of Alcohol

    Prohibition Of Alcohol
    This law was passed in belief that American citizen will behave better without the influence of alcohol. Many crimes such as abusing the family have been conducted. Some would even waste a family week worth of remuneration just on a drink
  • Tea Pot Dome Scandal

    Tea Pot Dome Scandal
    President Warren G Harding had leased navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. In 1922 and 1923, the leases became the subject of a sensational investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies and became the first Cabinet member to go to prison. No person was ever convicted of paying the bribes, however.
  • Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"

    Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
    One Of Warden G Harding campaign promises where to "return to normalcy" in which a promise to help fix economical problems.
  • Scopes Monkey Trial

    Scopes Monkey Trial
    Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes are the opponents. John Scopes was a substitute high school teacher, was accused of violating the Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. Basically it was illegal to teach science over religion. Scopes lost the trial and was fined $100, equal to $1366 in 2017 currency.
  • Charles A. Lindbergh Takes Flight

    Charles A. Lindbergh Takes Flight
    He was the first person to fly a plane across the Atlantic Ocean. He named the plane he flew the spirit of St.Louis. He landed in Paris, France. He was going after a money prize that came to the first person to fly over the Atlantic.
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    The Great Depression

    This was marked as one of americas worst travesties. This day is marked as the day were banks went bankrupt, many americans lost their jobs, and business stopped hiring due to lack of ban support
  • Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"

    Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
    This day marks the day where many banks lost money, many americans lost their jobs, and the stock market 100% crashes. This marks a place in history as one of Americas worst travesties.
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    The Dust Bowl

    This is known as the largest man made natural disaster. This was created due to the lack of farming education. Started from the west and ended up as far as new york.
  • 20th Amendment

    20th Amendment
    this amendment moved the beginning and ending of how long the president and vice president can run office
  • New Deal

    New Deal
    A act passed by president Franklin d Roosevelt. This was in response to help attack the problem of new deal. This trained many young Americans to help get jobs
  • Tennessee Valley Authority

    Tennessee Valley Authority
    This is a federal owned program. provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the tennessee valley.
  • The SSA

    The SSA
    In support with new deal, this helped older non working people get paid and for people with disabilities. This was also passed by Franklin d Roosevelt
  • The Red Scare

    The Red Scare
    was a fear of bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events, examples of real events are the Russian Revolution as well as the publicly stated goal of a worldwide communist revolution.
  • Three R's

    Three R's
    This was a programmed passed by FDR also in attempt to fix the great depression problem for mass amounts of unemployed adults looking for work.
  • FDIC

    FDIC
    this was a government owned program that helped federal banks receive better revenue and to recover lost cost.
  • Federal Reserve System

    Federal Reserve System
    this is a system of banking help to maintain banking after the great depression. This also established the act of banks can NOT use money of the people.
  • 21sst Amendment

    21sst Amendment
    This banned alcohol from america. The effects of this cause more organized crimes and madness from addicted persons. This was pass in belief this will make america better from within