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Advocate for black education, W.E.B. Du Bois began his teaching career with founding of the NAACP
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Lead by Jamaican, Marcus Garvey, this group advocated racial pride for blacks and developed political ideas of black nationalism.
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The 18th Amendment prohibited the sale and manufacturing of alcoholic beverages
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An artistic revolution that consisted of African Americans in the New York neighborhood of Harlem.
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Republican Warren G. Harding won against Democrat James Cox
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By the end of 1920s, most households had a car, this caused traffic and car accidents.
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Religious revivalists utilized the radio to preach religious views.
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Once Henry Ford adopted the idea of the assembly line, other companies copied and became more efficient.
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Inventions like the washing machines, refrigerators, and vacuums revolutionized the average American life
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The rise of the iconic entertainment industry
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Brought north by African Americans, this genre of music and performance became very popular.
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After WWI, an economic recession occurred.
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Limited immigration to 3% of the number of foreign born people.
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Secretary of Interior, Falls, accepted bribes for granting oil leases.
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As science was rising, modernists didn't believe everything of the Bible, this led to debates.
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After the recession, businesses flourished and the unemployment rate fell below 4%.
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Raised tariff rates on foreign goods extensively.
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Once joining the Creole Jazz Band, more people were aware of Armstrong's musical talent.
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After the death of President Harding, Coolidge took the presidential spot.
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Republicans nominated Coolidge and the democrats nominated John W. Davis, Coolidge won
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This idea of architecture based around form following function,
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Limited immigration to 2%, it was passed to ensure discrimination against southern and eastern Europe.
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Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this book shows the glamours of the wealth of society during this time.
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One of the many famous poems Ezra Pound wrote
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A Pulitzer Prize receiving novel written by Sinclair Lewis.
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The radio became apart of home entertainment, once signaling systems were made like CBS and NBC.
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Known for his flight across the Atlantic Ocean
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Millions of investors sold stocks, practically no buyers.
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High volume of stock selling which greatly dropped the price of it.
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Written by Ernest Hemingway, this novel takes place during the Italian campaign for WWI.
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The stock market plummeted because of a high volume of selling stocks due to speculation.
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Authorized to help farms stabilize prices by temporarily holding surplus grain and cotton in storage.
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The highest tariff in history (49%) which was enacted to protect U.S. business leaders.
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Ruined crops of the Great Plains and made farmers migrate to seek work.
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Ordered banks a holiday so they could stabilize. Was a New Deal program
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The 21st amendment ended prohibition
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A United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.
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This was organized so it could refinance small homes to prevent foreclosure.
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An attempt to guarantee reasonable profits for businesses and fair wages and hours for labor.
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New Deal program: Helped states to provide aid for the unemployed
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Provided low interest rate farm loans and mortgages to prevent foreclosures.
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Hired employees for federal sponsored roles in manual labor.
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Guaranteed individuals insurance of deposits up to $5,000.
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A government corporation that build dams, operated electric power plants, and controls flooding
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Employed men on federal land projects.
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Gave federal money to state and local governments for building roads, bridges, and dams.
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Purpose to regulate stock market and place limits on speculative practices.
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New Deal: Guaranteed workers the right to join a union and for that union to bargain collectively.
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Written by John Steinbeck, this book shows the hardships of the Dust Bowl and showed how thousands of workers went westward to seek jobs.
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"Take the A Train" is his most famous piece, popularized jazz music among the black community
