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Social Darwinism
The name given to the theories about biological concepts in the 1870's -
William Jennings Bryan
A congressmen in Nebraska and ran for president but did not make it. He did become president Willisons secrtery. -
Frances Willard
She was a temprance feformer and was influnced by the 18th and 19th amendments to he constitution. In 1897 she became the WCTC president and was for the next 19 years. -
The Great Migration
When the goverment moved the blacks out of the southern part of the U.S. to the nothweast and west. -
!st red scare (1920's)
When the fear of Bolshevism and anarchism became a wide spread in the US in the 20th century. -
“Relief, Recovery, Reform”
Programs that helped during the Great Depression. Relief for the poor, recovery of the economy, and reform so we don't repet the Depression, -
Federal Reserve System
The central bank of the U.S. It was created to form a better finincial system by comgress. -
Tin Pan Alley
The name given to New York city collection of music the publishers and song writers. In the early 1930's in the U.S. -
21st Amendment
In regurds to the 18th amendment this amendment states the prohibition of alchlol. -
Prohibition
Forbiding something by law. The big prohibition act in the 1920's and 1030's was the prohibition of alchol. It could not be manufactured or sold. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
His campagin promise durning the 1920's election that after WW1 they would be back to living life normaly. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
A bribery proplem that took place in the U.S. during president Hardings term. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
A trial in the 1920's when a high school techer was accused of teaching evelotion. -
jazz music
Jazz music became popluar music in America after the first world war and beofre the Great Depression. -
The Great Depression
Started shoertly after the stock market crashed and sent millions of investors into panic. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
The day the stock market crashed in the 1920's. Many banking systems crashed and despositors panicked that lead to even more bank failures. One of the main factors of the Great Depression, -
Harlem Renaissance
A coultural explosion that took place after WW1 untill about the mid 1930's in Harlem. -
The Dust Bowl
1930's drought in the panhandles of Oklahoma & Texas and the suronding areas. No rainfall and high winds witch led to people and animals dying because of so much dust in thier body. -
The 20th amendment
This amendment states the dates that presidents can serve in office and what happens if something were to hapen to the president. -
The New Deal
These were programs that helped familes during the time of The Great Depression. Following the wishes of the president Franklin D Roosevelt. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FCIC)
Created to restore trust in the U.S. banking system after the Great Depression, Kept from banks failing and kept people from having to make bank runs. -
Franklin D Roosevelt
32nd President of the U.S. during the time of the Great Depression. He lost his first election for vice president in 1920. He was paralyzed from the waist down do to Polio. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D Roosevelts wife. Served as the first lady during her husbands term in office from 1933-1945. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Created to bu congressmen to help the econimic problems in the Tenessee Valley during the Great Depression. -
Social Security Administratioin (SSA)
Federal government agency that gives money for people that are disabled or retired to make a living. -
Clarence Darrow
A laywer and a member of the American Civil Liberities Union in the 1920's -
Marcus Garvey
He was a socialist who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. -
Henry Ford
Business man in the 1920's. Founder of Ford cars and the man responsible for starting the assembly line. -
Dorothea Lange
She worked for the FAS during the Great Depression -
Langston Hughes
He was an early inventor of jazz poetry in the 1900's. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
American author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist of the 19th century. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
This gives investors protection. Goverment comission and created.