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Henry Ford
He 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. -
Margaret Sanger
She was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. -
Marcus Garvey
He was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a major part of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, and he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. -
Father Charles Coughlin
Coughlin was a vocal supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal. By 1934 he became a harsh critic of Roosevelt as too friendly to bankers. In 1934 he announced a new political organization called the National Union for Social Justice. -
Anti-Saloon League
It was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States. -
Huey Long
A supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, Long split with Roosevelt in June 1933 to plan his own presidential bid for 1936 in alliance with the influential Catholic priest and radio commentator Charles Coughlin. -
Woodrow Wilson
He was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States. -
The Volstead Act
It was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States. -
Harlem Renaissance
It was a period of cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. -
Great Migration
It was the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. -
Black Nationalism
It is a racial definition of national identity, and Martin Delany was the grandfather of Black Nationalism. -
Flappers
It was a ¨new breed¨ of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. -
Automobiles
The Ford Motor Company produced new and better models every year to supply the insatiable public demand. Increased wages and lower cost vehicles made possible through mass production meant that cars became increasingly affordable. -
Alcohol
During Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. -
Consumerism
It came into its own throughout the 1920s as a result of mass production, new products on the market, and improved advertising techniques. -
Texas oil boom
It was a period of dramatic change and economic growth in the U.S. state of Texas during the early 20th century that began with the discovery of a large petroleum reserve near Beaumont, Texas. -
Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association
It's a social, friendly, humanitarian, charitable, educational, institutional, constructive and expansive society, and is founded by persons desiring to do the utmost to work for the general uplift of the people of African ancestry of the world. -
Ponzi scheme
It's a fraudulent investment operation where the operator pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator. -
Roaring twenties
It was a period of sustained economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States. -
The sixth Lambeth Conference
Supported political lobbying against "such incentives to vice as indecent literature, suggestive plays and films, the open or secret sale of contraceptives, and the continued existence of brothels." -
Warren G. Harding
He was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
It was a bribery incident that took place in the United States. -
The emergency quota act
It restricted immigration into the United States, and it was the turning point in American immigration policy. -
incubators of agnosticism
Daugherty, pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Lebanon, Pa., cited by name two leading colleges for women in which he alleged that professors systematically seek to convert their classes to atheism. -
Babbitt
It's a novel by Sinclair Lewis, based largely on a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure toward conformity. -
Calvin Coolidge
He was the 30th President of the United States and a Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. -
immigration restriction
It was a U.S. federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set. -
The New Negro
An Interpretation as an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature, and was written by Alain LeRoy Locke. -
The Great Gatsby
It was a novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. -
The Sun Also Rises
It's a novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. -
The Sound and thr Fury
It's a novel written by the American author William Faulkner. It employs a number of narrative styles, including the technique known as stream of consciousness, pioneered by 20th-century European novelists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. -
Herbert Hoover
He was the 31st President of the United States was a professional mining engineer and was raised as a Quaker. A Republican, Hoover served as head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I. -
Agricultural Marketing Act
Hoover's voluntary form of farm aid at first appeared to succeed, but eventually failed to stop the decline of prices. -
The Great Crash
It's a book written by John Galbraith about an economic history of the lead-up to the Wall Street Crash of 1929. -
Stock Market Crash
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
Andrew Mellon
He was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom and United States Secretary of the Treasury. -
Emergency Relief and Construction Act
It was the United States's first major-relief legislation, enabled under Herbert Hoover and later adopted and expanded by Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his New Deal. -
The Brain Trust
It began as a term for a group of close advisers to a political candidate or incumbent, prized for their expertise in particular fields. -
The first 100 days
The first hundred days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency was a time in the history of the United States in which Roosevelt planned to put an end to the Great Depression. -
The Civillian Conservation Corps
One of the most popular New Deal programs, it put three million young men to work in camps across America during the height of the Great Depression. -
¨Okie experience¨
The "Okie" migration of the 1930s brought in over a million newly displaced people; many headed to the farm labor jobs advertised in California's Central Valley. -
African Americans and the New Deal
Most New Deal programs discriminated against blacks. -
Bank Holiday
President Roosevelt issued Proclamation 2039 ordering the suspension of all banking transactions, effective immediately. -
21st Amendment
The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol. -
The Dust Bowl
It was severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon. -
The American Liberty League
It was an American political organization formed in 1934, primarily of wealthy business elites and prominent political figures because they opposed the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
The Indian New Deal
It was an U.S. federal legislation that dealt with the status of Native Americans. -
Black Sunday
It was a severe dust storm that occurred as a part of the Dust Bowl, and it was one of the worst dust storms in American history and it caused immense economic and agricultural damage -
The black cabinent
It was first known as the Federal Council of Negro Affairs, an informal group of African-American public policy advisors to United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Court-Packing
President Franklin Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient.
