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Opposition from the senate espicially from the Republican party and in regard to Article X of the Covenant ensured that the us would not join the League of NAtions.
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Gave women the right to vote.
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Johnny Torrio, a childhood friend of Al Capone, introduces him to bootlagging.
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Law passed that made all alcoholic beverages in the United States illegal.
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TIME magazine was first published to keep the "busy man" informed.
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Calvin Coolidge who succeded Warren G. Harding after his sudden death was elected as president for a second term on his own.
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Harlem Renaissance or at the time known as the New Negro Movement is a cultural movement that spanned throughout the 11920s: thought to originate from the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. This book is considered by literary scholars and critics alike to be the definitive text of theHarlem Renaissance movement.
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JOHN T. SCOPES, a science teacher and football coach in Dayton, Tennessee was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act. The Butler Act made it illegal to teach evolution in any state-funded school.
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The book took place after WW1 in a time of prosperity in the United States.
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50,000-60,000 men and women dressed in white robes march through Washington.
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The Weary Blues was a poem that was published in a popular magazine, Opportunity, which later awarded it the best poem of the year. Langston Hughes later published this poem along with a collection of other poems in a book called The Weary Blues.
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Duke Ellington's stay at the Cotton Club is one of the enduring legends of Jazz. Duke Ellington's and his Cotton Club Orchestra were famous for their weekly broadcasts on radio station WHN.Their most famous track Creole Love Call became a worldwide sensation.
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Charles Lindbergh won the Orteig Prize for flying a solo non-stop flight from Garden City,New York to Paris, France (3600 miles).
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Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs in one-hundred fifty-one games.
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An american American musical film that first t feature length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences.
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An international agreement in which states promised not to resolve disputes through war, whatever the nature of their disputes may be.
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Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States of America. HE was in office during the Great Depression.
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The first animation to include sound.
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The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. The Great Depression did not end in the US until America begain to mobolized for WW2.
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She wanted to fly to PAris just like Charles Lindbergh but had to land in Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland due to strong northen winds, icy conditions and mechanical problems.
