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The Anti-Saloon League was an organization fighting for prohibition in the United States.
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The Great Migration started in 1910 and lasted until 1970. It was the movement of African Americans from Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.
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The 18th amendment established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
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The Seattle General Strike of 1919 was a five-day general work strike by workers in Seattle, Washington.
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The Red Summer of 1919 refers to a series of race riots that took place between May and October of that year.
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The steel strike of 1919 was an attempt to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I.
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A "Red Scare" is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism.
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The car enabled people to travel much further than foot or horse had permitted. The Ford Motor Company was the first to mass produce cars, such as The Model T.
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Many middle class families used credit during the Roaring Twenties. For the single-income family, new, convienient products were impossible to afford at once, so companies offered credit.
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Movies were the most popular leisure attraction of the time and movies would include sound by 1927!
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Professional sports gained a new popularity, giving a newly found fame to athletes like Babe Ruth and Jack Demsey.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that brought a new African American identity- ¨The New Negro,¨ as summed up by Alain Locke.
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The first commercial radio station in the U.S., Pittsburgh’s KDKA, hit the airwaves in 1920.
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Harding served as one of the most popular presidents in history, However, after his scandals, he is also regarded as one of the worst.
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The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident during Harding's presidency. Albert Bacon Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome to private oil companies.
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The Emergency Quota Act restricted immigration into the United States.
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Langston Hughes was a black poet during the Harlem Renaissance. ¨The Negro Speaks of Rivers,¨ is one of his most famous poems and was published June 1921.
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The Scopes Trial was al egal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution.
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The Babbit, written by Sinclair Lewis, was a satire about American culture.
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The Waste Land is a long poem written by T.S. Eliot and is regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century.
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Time magazine's first circulation was on March 3, 1923. Magazines became widely popular and companies enjors great success.
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The Cotton Club was opened in Harmel in 1923. It became a symbol of jazz, however it was a whites-only establishment even though it featured many of the most popular black entertainers.
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Coolidge restored public confidence in the White House after Harding's presidency.
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The first Olympic games were held in Chamonix, France.
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This animated film, featuring the most popular cartoon character of the time, offers a unique view of the evolution controversy. Felix sets out for South Africa to find proof of Darwin's theory of evolution.
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The Immigration Act was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted into the United States.
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The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrayed the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties in a fictious setting.
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The New Negro by Alain Locke was an anthology that described Harlem and black culture.
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The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemmingway, is about a group of Americans and Europeans who travel from Paris to Pamploma to watch bullfights and the famous running of the bulls.
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The Kellogg–Briand Pact was an international agreement promising not to use war to resolve disputes between countries.
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Hoover was elected by popular vote in 1929, however the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office and he was soon to blame for America's economic problems.
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The Great Depression in the United States, began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929
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The stock market crashed over a period of five days. The first sign of trouble was on Black Thursday - a record 12.9 million shares were exchanged.
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Black Tuesday was the starting point of the Great Depression. On Black Tuesday, a record 16.4 million shares exchanged hands and ticker tape machines fell behind by nearly 3 hours.
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The Hawley-Smoot Tarriff raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.
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The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was a government corporation that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans.
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The CCC put unemployed young men to work in the nation’s forests and parks.
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The AAA protected farmers through crop subsidies and reduced surpluses of farm goods.
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FERA provided work and relief for Americans struggling to get through the Great Depression.
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TVA provided affordable power and flood control.
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The Glass-Steagall Act separated commercial and investment banking.
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NRA was created to enforce codes but was ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court.
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The PWA received mony from Congress for public works projects.
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The CWA provided public service jobs to millions of unemployed workers in the USA.
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The Shelterbelt Project was started in 1934. This project funded planting trees to cause windbreak.
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SEC regulated stock market and restricted margin buying.
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Black Sunday was one of the worst dust bowl storms in the Great Plains.
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The WPA provided jobs for unemployed Americans and to improve the nation’s infrastructure.
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REA brought electric power to rural areas.
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The Wagner Act allowed workers to join unions and outlawed union-busting tactics by management.
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NYA provided work, education, and job training for unemployed young men and women.