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banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol (the beginning of Prohibition).
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Period during and after WWI where the U.S. became suspicious of radicals and Communists.
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Attorney General Palmer made raids on anarchists and left-wing radicals (Communists). Part of the Red Scare.
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Enforced the 18th amendment with 2500 officers.
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Two men tried for armed robbery and given the death penalty during the 1920s that led to worldwide outrage. Both were immigrants.
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The amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
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Leasing of government oil fields to the Secretary of the Interior's friends under the Harding Administration.
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A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians.
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Teacher who taught Evolution in the classroom, breaking a Tennessee law.
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Made the first trans-Atlantic flight in the "Spirit of St. Louis.
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The story begins with young Jakie Rabinowitz defying the traditions of his devout Jewish family by singing popular tunes in a beer hall. he then becomes a very famous jazz singer
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election of 1928
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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 devastated the economy and was a key factor in beginning the Great Depression.