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The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million blacks out of the South to the Northeast, Midwest, and West, stating this year.
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On this date the eighteenth Amendment went into effect, banning the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
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Founded by Marcus Garvey, this organization had alot of influence on the principal urban black neighbourhoods of the U.S. North during this year
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From this year till the mid-30s, there was a African-American cultural social, and artistic expressions that took place in Harlem, New York.
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This was a religious movement that wanted to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy.
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The greatest violence of the Red Summer riots starts on this date in Chicago, leaving at least 38 dead.
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This decade featured the rise of the flapper attitude and apperal, new ablitity to vote, the washing machine and the vacuum cleaner.
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In this decade, the radio becomes popular, as well as appliances and automobiles.
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This decade was an explotion of jazz music and dance inspiring the younger generation.
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This decade kicked of the popular art movement- art deco. Artists like Cliff, Moser & Corbusier challenged previous ideas of design and art.
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In this decade, film begins to truely blossem as a staple of American culture. Films like Metroplis and The Jazz Singer become popular.
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Around this date and into 1921, farm prices began to fall at a catastrophic rate. Wheat and cotton were hit hard, falling by almost half, crippling the south.
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Charles Ponzi, a famous financial con artist was charged with 86 counts of mail fraud on this date.
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The ammendment to the Constitution finaly allowed women to vote was ratified on this date in 1920
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After the dissatisfaction of Pres. Woodrow Wilson’s second term, republican Warren Harding defeats democrat James Cox in a landslide.
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Emergency Quota Act was temporarily enacted by Congress to limit the number of incoming immigrants into the US of any given nationailty.
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On this date, congress passed the temporary Emergency Tariff Act to provide protection for American farmers from the depression of 1920-21
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Published on this year, this novel writes about how the modern world has lost it's morality. Written by T. S. Eliot
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Albert Fall secretly grants exclusive rights to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company to the Teapot Dome on this date.
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On this year, Sloan becomes president of GM, propelling it to be the largest industrial enterprise in the world.
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The Immigration Act practically banned Japanese immigrants from entering the US and it limited incoming immigrants to the 1890 census.
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After the unexpected death of Warren Harding in 1923, Coolidge stepped in a president and defended the precidency against democrat John W. Davis on this date.
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Published this year, this novel was a hopefull outlook for the black American. Written by Alain LeRoy Locke.
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Published on this date, this book highlighted 1920's American dream. Writen by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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On this date, in Tennessee, the “Monkey Trial” ends. John Scopes, a high school science teacher, was accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
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On this date, the Ku Klux Klan march on Washington, futhering racial tension in America
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Published on this date, this novel is about a group of American who travel to watch the running of the bulls. Written by Ernest Hemingway
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This date marks the 15 millionth Model T created on the assembly line. The Model T's cost had fallen every year, so by this point, it cost less than 300 bucks.
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Published on this year, this book is about the moral decay of the south. Written by William Faulkner.
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On this date, after a nine year rise, the Dow Jones Industrial Average peaks at 381.17- value more than six times as high as in 1921
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This date, known as Black Tuesday, hit Wall Street hard- investors lost billions of dollars in a single day as the New York Stock Exchange crashed.
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This date marks the begining of the deepest and longest-lasting economic depressions in American history, started by the stock market crash on Black Tuesday which sent Wall Street into a down spiral.
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On this date, the tariff act of 1930 created the higest tariffs in US history signed by President Herbert Hoover
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The "Good Neighbor" policy was meant to mend relations between the US and Latin America
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On this year, this act called for the reopening of banks following a brief "holiday" after they were found secure.
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This act legalized the sale of beer and wine at the same time as prohibition with the goal to stimulate economic growth.
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this act lead to the Civilian Conservation Corps, which sent workers to do reforestation and conservation projects that brought money to families.
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On this date, this act was put into effect to provide relief to state and local governments.
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This act protected farmers from price drops as well as crop subsidies to reduce production.
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This act was put into affect in order to improve navigability and flooding of Tennessee River.
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This purpose of this act was to refinance homes to prevent foreclosure.
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The purpose of the NRA was to enforce fair competition and minimum wages.
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The purpose of this act was to prevent bank failures by creating federally insured bank deposits.
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Civil Works Administration (CWA) was a job creation program.
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On this date prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Starting this year, dust storms in the center of the country from overproduction ruined farms and left many farmers without crops.
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SEC was authorized to regulate the stock market and restrict margin buying.
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The WPA was meant to employ people in useful projects in which millions were given jobs.
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Its purpose was to gurantee workers right to organization, to form unions.
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The drought losens soil, creating devistating dust storms.
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