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High school
1 million American students attended high school -
Expanding News Coverage
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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Immigration
The number of immigrants had grown almost 600 percent from 141,000 people to 805,000. -
Strikes
3,000 strikes. Four million workers walked off the job. Employers wouldn't give raises and didn't want workers to join unions. -
Volstead Act
established a Prohibition Bureau in the Treasury Department but the agency was underfunded -
Palmer appointed J. Edgar Hoover as his special assisant.
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. -
U.S Steel Corporation
Refused to meet with union representatives. Steel companies hired strikebreakers, emplyees who agreed to work during the strikes. -
Protest of low wages and long workdays...
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. -
18th amendment in affect
Caused clashing between small-town and big-city Americans -
19th Amendment
Gives women the right to vote. -
Sacco and Vanzetti
Arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard. -
Warren G. Harding
Assumed the presidency in 1921. Public liked his idea described as "normalcy". -
National Income growing
64 billion to 87 billion -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
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. -
Tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen
After the tomb was open, comsumers mobbed stores for pharoah-inspired accessories, jewelry, and furniture -
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Migration to the cities accelerated
Nearly two million people leaving farms and towns each year. -
Time Magazine
begins publication -
Harding dies.
He died suddenly from either a heart attack or stroke -
KKK
Had 4.5 million members -
Tennesee
Passed the nations first law that made it a crime to teach evolution -
Scopes Trial
Opened on July 10th and overnight became a national sensation. -
Number of high school students
Risen to 4 million -
Lockheed Company
Produced a single-engine plane called the Vega. -
Sacco and Vanzetti were executed.
Were executed by the electric chair. -
Radios in America
50 million americans sat listening to their radios as Graham Mcnamee breathlessly called the boxing match . -
Herbert Ashbury
A writer who recalled the Capone era in Chicago