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brought to Harlem from Jamaica by a charismatic immigrant, Marcus Garvey.
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provide enforcement for the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Harding's campaign promised a return to "normalcy," rejecting the activism of Theodore Roosevelt and the idealism of Woodrow Wilson
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broadcast music to just a few thousand listeners. By 1930 there were over 800 stations broad-
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a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. Satirizing small town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book, and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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His first full-length work to be staged, Beyond the Horizon won the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s
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the struggle between modern values and anti-modern values could be seen in the literature, silent film, and drama of the American culture
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Fundamentalists blamed the liberal views of modernists for
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a sharp deflationary recession in the United States and other countries, beginning 14 months after the end of World War I
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limited immigration to 3 percent of the number of foreign-born persons from a given nation counted in the 1910 Census (a maximum of 357,000).
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raised American tariffs on many imported goods to protect factories and farms
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a lengthy period of business prosperity 1922-1928
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long poem by T.S. Eliot, published in 1922, first in London in The Criterion (October), next in New York City in The Dial (November), and finally in book form, with footnotes by Eliot.
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leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than fifty years.
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In a three-way contest, incumbent Republican President Calvin Coolidge won election to a full term.
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Congress discovered that Fall had accepted bribes
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provided networks of radio stations that enabled people from coast to coast to listen to the same programs: news broadcasts, sporting events, soap operas, quiz shows, and comedies.
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set quotas of 2 percent based on the Census of 1890 (before the arrival of most of the "new" immigrants).
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novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925
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anthology edited by Alain Locke, renaissance movement was named after it
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The first book by one of the finest poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and at the time, the most famous Black writer in America, Countee Cullen
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novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1926
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provided networks of radio stations that enabled people from coast to coast to listen to the same programs: news broadcasts, sporting events, soap operas, quiz shows, and comedies
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With the introduction of talking (sound) pictures in 1927,
the movie industry reached new heights. -
thrilled the nation and the entire world by flying nonstop across the Atlantic from Long Island to Paris.
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a controversial plan in the 1920s to subsidize American agriculture by raising the domestic prices of farm products (vetoed)
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Republican Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover defeated the Democratic nominee, Governor Al Smith of New York (Hoover was the last Republican to win a presidential election until 1952)
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a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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an unprecedented volume of selling on Wall Street, and stock
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share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.
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passed by the Republican Congress set tax increases ranging from 31 percent to 49 percent on foreign imports.
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a measure for propping up faltering railroads, banks, life insurance companies, and other financial institutions.
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In his campaign for president in 1932, Roosevelt offered vague promises but no concrete programs.
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repealing the Eighteenth was ratified, and millions
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During this brief period, Congress passed into law every request of President Roosevelt, enacting more major legislation than any single Congress in history.
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To restore confidence in those banks that were still solvent, the president ordered the banks closed for a bank holiday on March 6, 1933.
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legalized the sale of beer and wine.
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The president assured his listeners that the banks which reopened after the bank holiday were safe.
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authorized the government to examine the finances of banks closed during the bank holiday and reopen those judged to be sound.
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increased regulation of the banks and limited how banks could invest customers' money
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provided refinancing of small homes to prevent foreclosures.
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provided low-interest farm loans and mortgages to prevent foreclosures on the property of indebted farmers
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offered outright grants of federal money to states and local governments that were operating soup kitchens and other forms of relief for the jobless and homeless.
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allotted money to state and local governments for building roads, bridges, dams, and other public works.
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employed young men on projects on federal lands and paid their families small monthly sums.
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to teach and subsidize the plains farmers to rotate crops, terrace fields, use contour plowing, and plant trees to stop soil erosion and conserve water.
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ted family reunification under U.S. immigration law, forcing many Filipino families to remain separate for a number of years
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established several regulations on businesses in interstate
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The novelist John Steinbeck wrote about their hardships in his classic study of economic heartbreak
