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1 million American students attended high school
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By 1914 about 600 local papers shut down and 230 were taken over by huge national chains just to give readers more expansive coverage from the big cities
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The number of immigrants had grown almost 600 percent from 141,000 people to 805,000.
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3,000 strikes. Four million workers walked off the job. Employers wouldn't give raises and didn't want workers to join unions.
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established a Prohibition Bureau in the Treasury Department but the agency was underfunded
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They hunted down suspected communists, socialists, and anarchist. Trampled people's civil rights, invading private homes and offices and jailed suspects. Hundreds of foreigners were deported without trials.
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Refused to meet with union representatives. Steel companies hired strikebreakers, emplyees who agreed to work during the strikes.
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John L. Lewis called his union's members out on strike. there was a court order sending the miners back to work. Lewis said it was over but quietly gave the word for it to continue.
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Caused clashing between small-town and big-city Americans
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Gives women the right to vote.
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Arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard.
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Assumed the presidency in 1921. Public liked his idea described as "normalcy".
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64 billion to 87 billion
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Raised taxes on some U.S imports to 60 percent. It protected the U.S business especially in the chemical and metals industries, from foreign competition.
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After the tomb was open, comsumers mobbed stores for pharoah-inspired accessories, jewelry, and furniture
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Nearly two million people leaving farms and towns each year.
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begins publication
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He died suddenly from either a heart attack or stroke
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Had 4.5 million members
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Passed the nations first law that made it a crime to teach evolution
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Opened on July 10th and overnight became a national sensation.
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Risen to 4 million
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Produced a single-engine plane called the Vega.
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Were executed by the electric chair.
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50 million americans sat listening to their radios as Graham Mcnamee breathlessly called the boxing match .
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A writer who recalled the Capone era in Chicago