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Enforced the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol.
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Vladimir Lenin & his followers(bolsheviks) created a new communist state. They waved their symbolic red flag and cried out for a revolution that would abolish capitilism everywhere. 70,000 radicals joined the communist party that was formed in the United States.
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Palmer, Hoover, and their agents hunted down suspected communists, socialists, and anarchists. They raided their homes and offices.
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Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. The beginning of Prohibition.
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Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts. They were both sentenced to death and found guilty.
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The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. It was ratified 72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca falls convention in 1848.
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Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Falls secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land.
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The National Origins Act established immigration quitas that discriminated strongly against people from outside Western Europe. The Act also discriminated against Southern and Eastern Europeans and barred Asians completely.
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The Scopes Trial was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools/American Society,
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Charles decided to travel across the Atlantic so he could win the prize of $25,000. It took him 33 hours and 29 minutes to complete the journey. He traveled 3,61 miles nonstop.
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First major movie with sound. Premiered at the Tower Theater in Los Angeles, California on October 6th, 1927.
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Mining engineer from Iowa. Never ran for office before. Told Americans, "We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty that ever before." which caused a lot of Americans to vote for him during the election.
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Stock prices peaked and then fell. It only got worse after that. Helped lead into the Great Depression.
