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style of music influenced by Dixieland blues and ragtime
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organized black businesses and established a corps of Black Cross nurses
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When African americans looked to the north for finding the freedom and economic opportunities unavailable to them in the South.
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invented the automobile, stimulated other industries, promoted freedom and prosperity, altered residential patterns
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rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants
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Teapot Dome Scandal involved a former US Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company
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to return to the way of life before ww1
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an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist.
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William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska a dominant force in the Democratic Party
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Clarence Darrow"s family was against slavery, their home was a station along the underground Railroad. They wanted to help slaves to the north.
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produced a wealth of african american poetry, literature, art and music expressing the pain, sorrow, and discrimination felt by blacks at the time
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john scopes: high school bio teacher charged w/ illegally teaching the theory of evolution
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a poet of the harlem renaissance described the lives of african american life,hope and defiance
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Became the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean
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stock prices fell sharply.
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to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system
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long periods of drought and destructive farming methods ruined farming
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was the thirty-second President of the United States He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war.
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repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol
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movement to ban all alcohol in the US
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A relief, recovery, and reform effort that gave 2.5 million poor citizens jobs and land.
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agency of the government that regulates financial markets and investment companies
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insured savings of bank depositors and monitored soundness of insures banking institutions
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guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65
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The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle.
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Music publishing houses in NYC specialized in one style of music
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Was a great supporter of civil rights and opposed the Jim Crow laws.
