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Frances Willard
- She lifted her promising job as an educator in 1870 to move to a less promising career as a mover and shaker of the Temperance Movement.
- Her goal was to eliminate alcohol consumption in the country. she worked without compensation for years. She would use her lecture fees to make her living.
- In 1874 she became the secretary of the Chicago, Women's Christian Temperance Movement Union. (WCTU)
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Henry Ford
- Henry Ford launched the first assembly line n 1914.
- This new technique made the production of cars much faster than what it used to be. It went from taking 12 hours to make a car down to 2 1/2 hours. Then the cost of the car went down, in 1908 it was $850 and then by 1926 the cost of a car was $310 for a much needed improved model.
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Marcus Garvey
- He was an orator for the black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements.
- He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A) in 1912.
- He wanted to establish a country that had its own government. He then later got in contact with Booker T. Washington. After talking to T. Washington, Garvey traveled to the united states to raise funds.
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Jazz Music
- 1917 was when the first Jazz record was recorded.
- Jazz really took of in the 1920's, artist were finding new ways make music and letting in be heard. They were finding new ways to make profit. They soon realized that these different types of music could be put together. The "song plugger" was born a person who made sure that his companies tunes would be performed live by singers or dance bands.
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Prohibition and the 18th Amendment
- The amendment took effect in 1919 and was not a success. This was also the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution.
- People wanted to get rid of alcohol. at first they thought that making acts would help but it didn't. So they came up if its in the constitution then would have to follow this law, but that didn't work either. people would make their own alcohol and then sell it, or they would become bootleggers.
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Tin Pan Alley
- This arose in the late 19th century to early 20th century, and was in New York City.
- this genre got its name from the street it began on, which was on 28th street between 5th Avenue and Broadway (during the 19th century). In the 20th century it was based on broadway and 32nd street.
- the phrase tin pan refers to the sound of pianos being furiously pounded on by the 'song plungers" who revealed the tunes to publishers.
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Warren G. Harding's "return to normalcy"
- Harding's presidency was overshadowed by criminal activities. also by other government officials. Even though he wasn't involved in any wrong doing.
- He won general election, after the hardships of WW1 he promised a return to normalcy. Meaning he was going to get everything back to normal after the war.
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Langston Hughes
- He was a poet but he was working as a bus boy in Washington hotel.
- One day he played 3 of his poems by a guy named Vachel Lindsay and the the next news papers had said that Lindsay had found a busboy poet that was African American. This gave Hughes a broader notice.
- He later received a scholarship to Lincoln University in the same year he was given Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Award.
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Clarence Darrow
- Darrow's most famous case, commonly known as the Monkey Trial.
- He was defending John T. Scopes a public high school teacher who was accused of teaching evolutionary theory. This was in violation of Tennessee state law.
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Scopes Monkey Trial
- It started with a young high school teacher accused of teaching evolution, which was in violation of Tennessee state law. the case did not go in their favor. The 2nd day of the trial the judge had to move the to the lawn in fear that the over crowding would break the floor.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
- Lindbergh was a pilot.
- He took of in the Spirit of St. Louis in New York then Arrived the next day in Paris.
- He was awarded with medals, celebrations,and he was given the distinguished flying cross and congressional medal of honor.
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Stock-Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
- On this single day billions of dollars were lost. wiping out thousands of investors.
- The aftermath of this crash caused the rest of america to spiral down into the Great Depression. This was the deepest and longest economic downturn in history of western industerlization.
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The Great Migration
- This was where over 6 million african americans from the rural south moved to the cities in the north.
- They were driven by harsh segregation laws, and unsatisfactory economic workers.
- when the blacks headed north they took advantage of the need for industrial workers.
