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Ruth won 23 games in a season as a pitcher, a member of 3 World Series championship teams with the Red Sox. He broke the recorded in 1919.
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The Volstead Act enforced the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol beverages. It took effect in 1920.
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The Palmer Raids were a series of government raids in the U.S. led by the U.S. Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer. They were highly unsuccessful in find radical communists.
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The Great Migration was the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, and politics.
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The Lost Generation showed the effects war has on people. “Lost" in this context refers to the "disoriented, wandering, directionless" of war survivors.
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The first American Red Scare happened right after WW1. It was the deportation of several hundred immigrants by the federal government.
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In 1918 the Representation of the People Act (19th Amendment) was ratified which allowed women over the age of 30 the rights to vote.
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The 29th President of the U.S. and was a member of the Republican Party. He signed the Budget and Accounting Act, which established the country’s first budgeting process. It also created the Bureau of the Budget.
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The Emergency Quota Act established the nation's numerical limits on the number of immigrants who could enter the U.S.
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The first Winter Olympics Game were held on January 25, 1924 at Chamonix in the French Alps.
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Nellie Tayloe Ross was one of the first women to be a governor of a the Wyoming U.S. state. She remains as the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming.
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The Butler Act was a Tennessee law prohibiting public schools teachers from denying the Biblical account of mankind's origin.
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The Scopes Trial was an American legal case in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act.
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The Great Mississippi Flood was the most destructive river flood in the U.S. Hundreds of thousands of people were displace and about 250 died.
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Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first, nonstop transatlantic flight in history.
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Alphonse Gabriel Capone, also known as “Scarface,” was an American gangster and a businessman. He was the leader of the Chicago Outfit before being sent to prison and was suspected for the Valentines’s Day Massacre.
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The massacre was the murder of 7 members and associated of Chicago’s North Side Gang. They were gathered at a Lincoln Park garage on the morning of feast day.
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Black Thursday happened when investors sent Dow Jones Industrial Avenge plunging 11% in very heavy volume. It also began the Wall Street crash.
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The Wall Street Crash was a sharp decline in the U.S. stock market values. It left stocks in great excess of their real value.
