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The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote, and was the result of the womens suffrage movement.
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Al capone began bootlegging alcohol due to prohibition in Chicago. He was eventually arrested, but not for bootlegging, but for not paying his taxes.
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The First copy of Time Magazine was published.
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Calvin Coolidge is elected president, and he was a supporter for prohibition.
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Written by Langston Hughes, it was published in a magazine and was influential in the Harlem Renaissance.
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The Great Gatsby was published by author F.Scott. It empahizes the roaring twenties and is considered one of the greatest american novels.
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John Scopes was sued for teaching evolution in a school.
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They marched in Washington to show support for their klan
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Written by Alain Locke, which included african literature. It influenced the Harlem Renaissance.
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The cotton club was a popular jazz club where many black musicians played. This is where Ellington became famous.
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He was awarded the Orteig Prize for flying from New York to Paris
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babe ruth was the first to accomplish this, and he helped to populize baseball during the 1920's.
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The first film to include dialogue, or the firts sound film. The beginning of the "talkies".
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It is also known as the Paris Pact. An agreement in which countries agreed not to use war as a problem solver.
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The first appreance of Mickey mouse, and one of the first videos with sound.
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The amendemnt established prohibition of alcohol, but was later repealed. It is the only amendment to date to be repealed.
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Herbert hoover is elected president and becomes the 31th president of the United States.
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The stock market crahsed in 1929 and became the worst in all the U.S. It was follwed a a severe depression.
