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A period from 1920-1928 when the United States was experiencing large upswings in Western values and Western culture -
Prohibition was a national ban on the production and sell of alcohol in America. The Great Depression would make the alcoholic black market - "moonshining".
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The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution gave women the right to vote.
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The first major personal car, the Model T, is released by Henry Ford.
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The Ku Klux Klan was reborn in 1924, in its most infamous form. The KKK terrorized the Reconstruction-era South and black people, which would spark civil rights movements for the rest of the century.
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Famous American pilot Amelia Earhart crashed her plane and was never found in the winter of 1928.
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After a major stock market crash in 1929, the world entered a large-scale economic depression. The Great Depression would go on to cause a lot of economic problems and social and governmental turmoil.
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The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that tore mostly across the American Midwest. The storms destroyed crops and agriculture and greatly affected food supply in America.