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Susan B. Anthony
Was born on February 15 1820. She taught for fifteen years the she became active in temperance. Because she's a women she was not able to speak at rallies. She traveled lectured and canuassed across the nation to vote. She also campaigned for abolition of slavery. -
Langston Hughs
He was a jazz poet born on February 1 1901. He wrote novels, short stories, and plays. He shaped the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance. He died from cancer on May 22 1967. -
webb-haney act
Alien land law of 1913 -
women suffrage
emerging from the breader movement for women rights. girls would be arrested if they voted. in 1916 Alice Paul formed the national womens party a militant group focused on the passage of a national suffrage amendment. -
Anti-saloon
the anti-saloon was a prohibition league. Women made this league to fight for the right for freedom. -
the 19 amendent
this allwoed women to vote and be more social. women before this were only really to cook clean and to have a family. -
the trial of sacco and vanzetti
italian born us anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and robbing a shoe company and were executed by the electic chair. they say the only reason why they were killed was because of what they believed in. they didnt even commit the crimes they were charged for. -
Babe Ruth
he was a famous baseball player. he bested the homerun record he set in 1919. with 54 homeruns in 1921 he made MLB history. -
the first talking movie
The jazz singer is the first talking movie -
immigration act
Was a us law to control the amount of immigration that was happening in our country. -
first olympic winter games
The first Olympic Games happened in France of 1924 -
prohibition
is the act of prohibiting the manufacturing storage in barrels or bottles transportation sale possession and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages. -
Flappers
flappers was a new age for women. They ware short skirts cut their hair to bobbed hair, listened to jazz. wore makeup drank sex in a casual manner smoked drove automobiles and other social and sexual norms. -
stock market
known as black tuesday. this started the 10 year lasting great depression. because of ww1 and the roaring twenties the crash happened. -
the emergency quota act
known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, the Per Centum Law, and the Johnson Quota Act (ch. 8, 42 Stat. 5 of May 19, 1921) restricted immigration into the United States.
