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Model T was the first automobile in the U.S. that the average American could afford.
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Henry Ford created the assembly line that allowed him to make the Model T in 10 ten and a half hours less time. The assembly line allowed him to drop the price so more people could afford it.
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In 1920 women were allowed to work for a living, they didn't make as much as men, but they were being opened to more opprotunities.
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The Palmer raids were a series of raids in early 1920 where A. Mitchell Palmer and anarchists exploded bombs in cities across America.
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African American music, literature, dance, art, and social commentary all boomed in Harlem, New York. The Harlem Renaissance showed the different cultures of African American.
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During the 1920's mny citizens left the rural community for the urban community.
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Duing the 1920's many americans got hooked on the modern convience of art, music, and literature.
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Prohibition began when the eighteenth amendment, which banned the sale and making of alcohol illegal, went into effect.
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The National Negro Baseball League was organized on February 20, 1920, and it allowed blakcs to have a baseball league of their own.
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The nineteenth amendment was ratified and allowed women the right to vote.
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Soon after Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were murdered, forty people in New York City were killed from flying debris. This debris was from a horse-drawn cart that was filled with dynamite, and it caused the New York stock exchange to close early that day. The culprits very never found.
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When the jazz age came aroun so did the modern convenience of the radio.
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The National Origins Act was established to drastically lower the amount of immigrants coming into the United States.
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The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
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In 1924 the U.S. banned Aisians from the U.S. uless the could prove that they were a citizen or they had family living here already.
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School was a modern convenience that urban children took advantge of, but rural children were more traditonally.
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John Thomas Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was arrested for for violating an act of the state legislature which prohibited the teaching of evolution in schools. The trial began in Drayton on 11th July, 1925.
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The jury found John Thomas Stopes guilty and the judge fined him $100.
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In 1925 thousands of klansmen staged a huge march in Washington, D.C.
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2,000 KKK members gathered in Hampton to parade around a field.
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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were immigrants from Italy, who were charged for shooting and killing two men in a shoe factory holdup. They were put to death on August 23, 1927, in electric chairs.
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In 1928 farmers were suffering from growing debts and falling farm prices.
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In 1933 Congress passed the 21st amendment which repealed the 18th amendment, officially ending prohibiton.
