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Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)
-She was president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
-She believed women should have power to vote on things such as if liquor should be legal.
-Her influence as a suffragette and temperance reformer will help pass the 18th and 19th amendment, both which play big roles in the 1920s. -
Clarence Darrow (1857 -1938)
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Marcus Garvey (1887 - 1940)
-Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League UNIA-ACL)
-By the 1920s his association had over a million members and thousands would gather to hear him speak
-He was the leader of the Pan-Africanism movement, which aims to strengthen bonds of all people of african descent. -
Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
-An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
-He was a primary contributor to the Harlem renaissance and many of his writings are influenced by his life in Harlem, NY
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Charles A. Lindbergh (1902 - 1974)
-Major contributions were in the late 1920s, an American aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927.
-This is important because it is the first successful flight to be both solo and nonstop across the Atlantic.
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Tin Pan Alley (1920s)
- This was a named given to the neighborhood on West 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. This is where many songwriters and music publishers had their offices.(music was very important in the 20s)
- The name will later refer to the music industry as a whole -Name given by Monroe H. Rosenfeld in the New York Herald, describing the sound of multiple pianos playing different tunes to be like tin pans banging in an alleyway
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Social Darwinism ( 1920s)
-The theory that individuals are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals that became big in the 20s and 30s.
- Introduced by Herbert Spencer in the late 1800s, before dying in 1903, he will not see his idea blow up and be named Social Darwinism.
-It was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. -
The Great Migration (1920s)
- This occurred from 1916 to 1970
- This was the movement of millions of African Americans from the south to the north
- Due to the migration, the 20s became a time to appreciate african-american culture, kicking off the Harlem Renaissance, such as jazz, blues and art.s
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Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
-This campaign appealed to many and won him presidency. Harding was president from 1921 to 1923.
- His campaign was "Return to Normalcy" or return to the way things were before the war.
-Big business and advocates of isolationism reaped the benefits of Republican rule in the 1920s returning to normalcy meant a return to big business.
-This is practically the slogan for the 20s as many begin to unwind and focus more on culture than labor, war and movements. -
Stock Market Crash "Black Tuesday"
-Black Tuesday was the fourth and last day of the stock market crash in 1929.
-Investors traded a record 16.4 million shares. They lost $14 billion on the New York Stock Exchange,
-This was one of the things that pushed the US into The Great Depression
