1920's Key Term

  • Frances Willard

    Frances Willard
    She was an American, Temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. She influenced the 18th and 19th Amendments to the
    United States Constitution
  • Clarence Darrow

    Clarence Darrow
    Was an american lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform.
    -He defended eugene V. Debs arrested on federal charge arising from the Pullman Strike
  • William Jennings Bryan

    William Jennings Bryan
    He was an American and politicians from Nebraska. He served 2 terms as a member of the U.S. of Representatives from Nebraska and was also the United States Secretary of the State under president Woodrow.
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford
    Founder of Ford Motor Company. He developed and manufactured the first automobile, through the middle class could afford to buy it.
  • Federal Reserve System

    Federal Reserve System
    The Fed is the central banking system of the U.S. It was created on Dec. 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act. In response to a series of Financial panics
  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey
    -Founded the universal Negro Improvement association
    -Believed in black separatism
    -Created the "Back to Africa" movement, believed
  • The Great Migration

    The Great Migration
    It was a movement of over 6 million African Americans. To get out of the rural Southern U.S. to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.
  • Social Darwinism

    Social Darwinism
    It was a term given to try and apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest in human society
  • 1st Red Scare

    1st Red Scare
    Was a period during the U.S. marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism Due to the real and imagined events.
  • Jazz Music (1920's) " The Jazz Age"

    Jazz Music (1920's) " The Jazz Age"
    At the end of WW1 until the start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the Jazz Age. Older generations considered the music immoral and threatening to old cultural values.
  • Tin Pan Alley

    Tin Pan Alley
    The name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the U.S.
  • harlem renaissance

    harlem renaissance
    The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in the Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920's. During the time, it was known as the "Negro Movement", named after 1925 anthology by Alain Locke
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal
    Secretary of the interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in Cali. To private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding
  • langston Hughes

    langston Hughes
    He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was 1 of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form of Jazz Poetry
  • Warren G. Harding "Return to Normalcy"

    Warren G. Harding "Return to Normalcy"
    He was the 29th president of the U.S. serving from March until his death. Returning to the way of life before WW1 he promised the return of the U.S prewar mentality, without the thought of war tainting the minds of the American people
  • Scopes Monkey Trial

    Scopes Monkey Trial
    The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. It was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, he was accused of violating TN's Butler Act. It made it unlawful to human evolution any state-funded school.
  • Charles A. Lindbergh

    Charles A. Lindbergh
    Lindbergh took off in the spirit of St. Louis from Roosevelt Field. near New York City, at 7:52 A.M. He landed at Le Bourget Field, near Paris, on May 21 at 10:21 P.M. Paris time.
  • Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"

    Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
    Known as Black Tuesday, it was the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash in the late 1920's it was the most devastating S.M. Crash in the history of the U.S. when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its aftereffects
  • The Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl
    Also known as the Dirty thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the U.S. and Canadian during the 30's; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon
  • The New Deal

    The New Deal
    Was a series of programs, including, most notably, social security, that were enacted in the U.S between 22 and 38.
  • "Relief, Recovery, Reform

    "Relief, Recovery, Reform
    Known as the "three R's" were introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis.
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporations

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporations
    It's and independent agency of the federal government responsible for insuring deposits made by individuals and companies in banks and other thrift institutions. It insures deposits up to $25,000.
  • 20th Amendments

    20th Amendments
    The twentieth Amendment to the U.S Constitution moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of congress.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    he was the 32nd president of the U.S from 1933 until his death 1945. He won a record of 4 presidential elections, was the longst running president in the U.S. history his program for relief recovery and reform known as the New Deal, was a big game changer during the Great Depression.
  • Elanor Roosevelt

    Elanor Roosevelt
    She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest- Serving First Lady of the U.S during her husband's presidency.
  • 21st Amendment

    21st Amendment
    Was an Admission of the terrible failure of prohibition, which led to people disrespecting the law and criminals to do well selling illegal alcohol to those that wanted.
  • Prohibition & the 18th Amendment

    Prohibition & the 18th Amendment
    In the U.S was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place. The 18th Amendment established the prohibition of alcohol in the U.S
  • Securities & exchange Commission

    Securities & exchange Commission
    Is an Agency of the United States federal government. It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing security rules, and regulate the security industry.
  • Social Security Administration

    Social Security Administration
    An agency of the U.S. federal gov. that administers Social Security, a social Insurance program consisting of retirement.
  • 1936 Summer Olympic

    1936 Summer Olympic
    The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the Xl Olympiad, was and international multi-sport event that was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    It was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 30's. The timing of the Great depression varied across nations; it's commonly used as an ex. of how far the world's economy can decline.