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This decade was a time of recession from the postwar troubles of World War 1, along with changing goverrnment ideals, feminism, and Pan-Africanism
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The Red Scare was a time of anti-communist hysteria, and this was caused by the labor strikes going on throughout the nation. Many people saw it as another Bolshevik revolution that was going to start up in the U.S.
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The Seattle General Strike was the first major strike of 1919, where about 60,000 shipyard workers in Seattle walked off their job and started a strike for higher wages and shorter working hours.
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Throughout the 1920's African Americans were moving North, around 800,000 people. They were moving North in hopes of finding better jobs that payed more.
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The 19th Amendment is ratified granting women the right to vote.
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Warren G. Harding won the election of 1920, He was a republican and he stated that he didn't want to improve the U.S., rather he wanted to return the U.S. to a state of normalcy.
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President Harding signed The Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act. This act pushed tariff rates on manufactured goods to an all time high.
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Warren G Harding dies of a stroke, and vice president Calvin Coolidge becomes president
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Vladimir Lenin suffered 3 strokes, until he could no longer speak or get out of bed, and died.
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The Immigration Act was passed and it reduced the number of immigrants allowed to come into the country to 2% of each nationality
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Calvin Coolidge stays as president after taking over after Harding's death
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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was established to better working conditions of African Americans who worked for the Pullman Company
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Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on this day for suspected murder of a paymaster and a guard during a 1920 payroll robbery outside of a shoe factory near Boston.
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Al Capone had seven members of a rival gang killed in Chicago
