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Frances Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was born in Churchville, New York. She died of influenze at age 58 in Yew York, New York. She was University dean, political reformer, and a womans suffragist. She is best known for the Woman's Christain Temprance Union. -
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Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb. He died of primary heart disease in Chicago, Illinois. -
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William Jennings Bryan
William Jenning Bryan was tan American orator and politician from Nebraska. He stood three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States (1896, 1900 and 1908) He served two terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska and was United Stes Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. -
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. -
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Jazz Music
Jazzis a genre of music that originated from African Aerican communities in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It sans a period of over a hundred years, encompassing a range of music from ragtime to jazz-rock fusion of th e1970s and 1980s, and has proved to be difficult to define. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is a modern name given to various theories of society that emerged in the United Kingdom, Notrh America, and Western Europe in th e1870s. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin served as the 32nd President of the UNisted States from 1933 to 1945. He won four presidential elections and dominated hs party for many years as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century. He died at age 63 in Warm Springs, Georgia. -
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lad of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Rooselvelt's four term in office. -
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Marcua Garvey
Marcus was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which he founded the Unniversal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. He advanced a Pan-African philosophy that inspired a global mass movement, known as Garveyism. -
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Dorothea Lange
Dorothea was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). -
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Langston Hughes
In November of 1924, Hughe moved to Washingtion, D.C. Hughe's first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published be Alferd A. Knopf in 1926. In 1930 his first novel, Not Without Laughter, won the Harmon Gold Medal for literature. As time went on he made many more acheivements. -
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Charles A. Lindbergh
In 1927, at age 25, he emerged from the virtual obscurity of a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fameafter his Orteig Prize-winning solo nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France. -
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The Great Migration
The movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southren UNited States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurrd between 1910 and 1970. -
Federal Reserve System
Teh centrl banking system of the UNited Stares. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactmen of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics. Aslo known as the Federal Reserve or simply as the Fed. -
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Harlem Ranaissance
A movement that spanned the 1920s. The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place Harlem, New York. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. -
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1st Red Scare (1920s)
The 1st Red Scare was marked by a widespreadf fear of Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events incluuded those like the Rusian Revolution as well as the publicity stated goal of a worldwide communist revolution. -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pans Alley is the name given to the collection of New ork Cuty Music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United Stated in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Return to normalcy- "a return to the way of life before World War 1"
This was Warren's campaign promise in the election of 1920. His promise was to ruturn the United States power mentality, wothout the thought of war tainting the minds of the American people. -
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Prohibition
Prohibition is the act of prohibiting the manufacturing, storage in barrel or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; however, in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit WallStreet as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a signle day. Billions of dollars were lost. It wiped out thousands of investors. -
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The New Deal
A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They include both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933-37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
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"Relief, Recover, Reform"
The 3 R's are all apart of the New Deal that occured during thw 1st term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Relief: for the unemployed and poor
Recovery: of the economy to normal levels
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20th Amendmet
The 20th amendment sets the date that federal government elected offices end (January 20th). It also defines who secceeds the president if the president dies. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
TVA is a federally owned corporation in the UNited States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fetilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley. -
Federal Deposit Insureance Corporation (FDIC)
The FDIC is a United States goevernment corporation providing deposit insurence to depositors in US banks. The FDIC was created by the 1933 BAnking Act after the Great Deppression to restore trust in the American banking system. -
21st Amendment
The 21st amendment ends Prohibition. It gives the state the right to allow making of and selling of alcoholic beverages. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damabged the ecology nd agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. -
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
SEC is an agency of the United States federal government. It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities rules, and regulating the securities industry. -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
SSA is an indeoendent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. -
Scopes Monkey Trials
Tennessee v. Scopes
An American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
