1921-1941

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    The Great Migration

    The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
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    Warren G. Harding

  • Teapot Dome

    Teapot Dome – April 15, 1922“alleged” unprecedented secret arrangement. Secretary of Interior and Private oil Company. Most significant investigation in Senate history
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    Calvin Coolidge

  • McNary – Haugen Bill

    McNary – Haugen Bill, 1927 and 1928. Proposed system of federal price. Coolidge vetoed "farm problem” not a national problem
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    The great depression

    The Great Depression began with the stock market crash of 1929 and was made worse by the 1930s Dust Bowl. President Franklin D. Roosevelt responded to the economic calamity with programs known as the New Deal.
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    Herbert Hoover

  • Blavk Tuesday

    October 29, 1929 A Tuesday: most devastating single day in stock market’s history to that point and widespread panic set in
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    The New Deal

    The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. It responded to needs for relief, reform, and recovery from the Great Depression. Major federal programs and agencies included the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Farm Security Administration (FSA).
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Neutrality Act of 1935

    Neutrality Act of 1935
    Americans cannot travel on ships owned by nations at war

  • Neutrality Act of 1936

    Neutrality Act of 1936 forbade loans to nations at war

  • Neutrality Act of 1937

    Neutrality Act of 1937
    Goods other than arms or munitions be sold on a cash and carry basis

  • Neutrality Act of 1939

    Neutrality Act of 1939
    Britain and France allowed to send own freighters to buy military supplies

  • Election of 1940

    FDR: 449 electoral votes and 27 million popular votes
    Wendell L Willkie: 82 electoral votes and 22 million popular

  • Pearl Harbor.

    The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.