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The Palmer Raids begin, launching a period of intense government persecution of radical political dissidents in response to the postwar Red Scare sweeping the nation.
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National Origins Act of 1924. 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. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s.
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Black Tuesday was the fourth and last day of the stock market crash of 1929. It took place on October 29, 1929.
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States
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Roosevelt was elected as president of the United States.
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This acts gave workers the right to form unions.
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WW2 started
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United States did not enter the war until after the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii