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Leader of the UNIA, urged blacks to return to Africa because, he reasoned, blacks would never be treated justly in countries ruled by whites.
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Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the fighting in World War I.
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Resulted in nationwide crusade of leftists who's Americanism was questionable
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ordered immigrants suspected of radical views to be rounded up and deported.
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Congress ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States.
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Langston Hughes A leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "My People"
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religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy
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United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (1895-1983)
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Many died after race riots, white men attacked black swimmers, started in Chicago
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President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke, leaving him largely incapacitated for the final 18 months of his term
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Enforced the 18th amendment
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Class revolution in Seattle leads to Red Scare .
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came forth during the 1920s, turning people away from traditional values. Glorified weath and personal freedom, more secular, straying away from religion
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United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
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1920 act of Congress in which the railroads were returned to private ownership with a pledge of government help to make them profitable.
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Bars that operated illegally during the time of Prohibition
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Italian electrical engineer known as the father of radio, used during WWI
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demanded complete equality for blacks, social as well as economic, and helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910;
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Senate rejects the idea of a super league headed by the United States
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The 1920 act which tried to get the government out of the shipping business and authorized the Shipping Board to dispose of its wartime fleet at bargain basement prices.
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Prohibition spawned these crimes; organized crime of bootlegging alcohol and bribing public officials to keep quiet; also got involved in prostitution and gambling
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The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
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Former President surrounded himself with a few shady characters who tainted his presidency. Believed in a quasi-laissez-faire economic policy. Died of illness in 1923.
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Former President William Howard Taft appointed to Supreme Court.
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Etablished by the Budget and Accounting Act; reviews funding requests from government departments and assist the president in formulating the budget
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An act designed to restrict the flow of immigrants into the U.S. A nation would have to fulfill a quota in order to continue sending immigrants.
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A conference hosted by the US which called for US and British de-fortification of Far East possessions (though Japan could fortify all it wanted). Also called for general naval disarmament.
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Raised tariff from 27% to 35%, Duties on farm produce increased. Passed during the Harding Administration.
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Germany suffers hyperinflation after reparations payments imposed by Treaty of Versailles One American dollar is now worth 7,000 German marks.
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In this court case, the Supreme Court reversed its own reasoning in Muller v. Oregon, on the grounds that women were now the legal equals of men (after the Nineteenth Amendment).
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This loan program was crafted to give money to Germany so that they could pay war reparations and lessen the financial crisis in Europe; the program ended with the 1929 stock market crash.
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Ford Motor Company founder ,the pioneer in the manufacturing of affordable automobiles with his Model T, which was built using assembly line methods. Workers were happy, and Ford had many customers. By 1924, his car sold for less than $300.
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H. L. Menken the author of the monthly magazine American Mercury. He attacked many controversial issues such as marriage, patriotism, democracy, prohibition
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Published "the man nobocdy knows" in which he reconfigures Jesus to fitinto the Roaring 20's
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iconic 1925 novel written by F, Scott Fitzgerald .
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John T. Scopes was tried and fined in "Monkey Trail" against Fundamentalists b/c he taught evolution
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Ku Klux Klan marches on Washington .
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"American Tragedy"novelist used blundt prose to batter promoters and profiteers
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an American writer of fiction who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 (the sun also rises)
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"Jazz Singer" first "talkie", white Al Johnson w/ black face
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1929; four men dressed as police shot open fire as six men with machine guns.
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United States novelist who wrote about people in the southern United States . (the sound of fury)
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act of Congress which was designed to help the farmers help themselves through producers' cooperatives
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The day that the New York Stock Exchange crashed
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Springfield VA becomes moonshine capitol of country .
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Box towns built by unemployed people during the Depression named after then Pres. Hoover.
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the 1930 tariff which raised duties to 60%, angered the rest of the world, and exacerbated the depression
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established the Civilian Conservation Corps and provided work immediately for 250,000 young men in reforestation, road construction and developing national parks.
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provided for the reopening of the banks as soon as examiners had found them to be financially secure.
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It constructed dams and power plants along the Tennessee Valley, providing electricity to its residents.
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Passed to monitor and regulate stocks and bonds.
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Regulated construction of roads, public buildings and other projects while providing employment
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This stimulated competition and benefit producers and consumers by implementing various codes to establish fair trade.
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This provided work for over four million people during the winter season.
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This act imposed quotas limiting the cotton production of various areas and individuals.
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Dust storms in the center of the country ruiined farms and left many farmers with out crops and money.
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establishing the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to insure loans for construction, renovation or repairs of homes.
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New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government.
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This act guaranteed pensions to those retiring at 65 with contributions from both employees and employer, offered financial aid to dependent children and blind people, and established a system of unemployment insurance.
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This act altered the operation of the Federal Reserve System, making banks more responsible and responsive to the public.
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Permitted federal agencies to regulate the gas and electric companies.
