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jazz music
a genre of music that originated from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries -
Frances Willard
women's suffragist and reformer. -
Franklin D roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. -
eleanor roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945 -
Tin Pan Alley
street hosting famous musicians and music stores in New York -
federal deposit insurance corporation
William Jennings Bryan presented a bill to Congress proposing a national deposit insurance fund. No action was taken, as the legislature paid more attention to the agricultural depression at the time. -
Dorothea lange
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. -
The Great Migration
movement of African Americans from south to North over about 60 years -
Henry Ford
Invented the assembly line that aided in the beginning of mass production in america. -
The Federal Reserve System
the Federal Reserve or he Fed—is the central banking system of the United States. -
The First Red Scare
At its height in 1919–1920, concerns over the effects of radical political agitation in American society and the alleged spread of communism and anarchism in the American labor movement fueled a general sense of paranoia. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
international celebrity who flew solo from New York to Paris in 33.5 hour. -
Warren G Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality" -
Prohibition
alcohol is made illegal by the 18th amendment -
tennessee valley authority
Americans began to support the idea of public ownership of utilities, particularly hydroelectric power facilities. The concept of government-owned generation facilities selling to publicly owned distribution utilities was controversial and remains so today. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Interior secretary illegally sold Navy oil reserves to private companies. -
Marcus Garvey
Created the UNIA and followed the idealism where all Africans should move back to the “homeland” -
Social Darwinism
theory of society that emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe, which claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. -
Clarence Darrow
defended teacher john scopes after teaching Darwinism in his class. -
William Jenning Bryan
defended teacher john scopes after teaching Darwinism in his class. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching social darwinism in his biology class. -
Langston Hughes
Creator of jazz poetry. -
“relief recovery reform”
During this time, people were unemployed and poor because of the tough economic times. Relief and Recovery were paid the most attention to. They were all very important in helping our society and economy return to normal. -
Stock Market Crash “Black Tuesday”
Black Tuesday hits Wall Street as investors trade 16,410,030 shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors, and stock tickers ran hours behind because the machinery could not handle the tremendous volume of trading. -
The great Depression
Economic historians usually attribute the start of the Great Depression to the sudden devastating collapse of US stock market prices on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday however, some dispute this conclusion and see the stock crash as a symptom, rather than a cause, of the Great Depression. -
Harlem Renaissance
name given to the time period in which Harlem (Manhatten New York) grew culturally due to black theater/music. -
the dust bowl
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade. Its primary area of impact was on the southern Plains. The northern Plains were not so badly effected, but nonetheless, the drought, windblown dust and agricultural decline were no strangers to the north. -
20th amendment
sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. -
21st amendment
Passed by Congress February 20, 1933. Ratified December 5, 1933. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment. -
securities and exchange commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is an agency of the United States federal government. It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules -
the new deal
So, in the spring of 1935, Roosevelt launched a second, more aggressive series of federal programs, sometimes called the Second New Deal. In April, he created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to provide jobs for unemployed people. -
social security administration
The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.
