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It was a period of intense government persecution of radical dissidents responding to the Red Scare. It was a series of raids done by the Department of Justice. It was done to capture suspected radical leftists and deport them.
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Events that happened in the 1920s
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It was a trial based on murder that included Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The two immigrants were accused of murder even know the evidence was not really conclusive. They were executed in Massachusetts in 1927.
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Congress passed the Fordney-McCumber Tariff. It raised tariff duties to protect American market for manufacturers
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After WW1, Germany lost the war and was responsible for the war. They had to pay money to the winning side. They paid the United States, France, and Great Britain.
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President Warren G. Harding dies on Aug. 2 1923. He died from a stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Calvin Coolidge took over the presidency.
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It is when thousands of African Americans joined in the great migration from the rural south to industrial cities in the north. In Harlem, African American artistic development, racial pride, and political organization thrived. The result was a flowering of African American arts that became known as the Harlem Renaissance.
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A Tennessee schoolteacher named John Scopes was teaching how humans evolved from monkeys. This contradicted the religious belief of being made by god. The fundamentalists won the trial and Scopes had to pay a fine.
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It is when Ku Klux Klan members marched down the street in Washington D.C. 40,000 members marched down Pennsylvania Avenue. They marched right past the White House.
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The Stock Market Collapse is what caused the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaks in September 1929.
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Also known as the Saint Valentines Day Massacre. It was the worst incident of the long turf war between Chicago mobsters fighting to control the bootlegging trade. Al Capone and his gang murdered six followers of rival Bugs Moran.
