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Ellis Island opens for entry of new immigrants.
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This was a famous book becuase it is the first fantasy written by an American to have immediate success.
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Provided government subsidies for farmers to decrease crop production.
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Du Bois proposes that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line."
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She wrote about the practices of Rockefeller's oil company.
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Upton Sinclair's book described the meat packing industry and helped cause a change.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans.
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Developed training programs intended to help African Americans migrating from the South to the North.
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Henry Ford announces a 40 hour work week.
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The League of Nations is established which the US senate decides not to join.
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Imposes the federal prohibition of alcohol.
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The 1920's Fashion trends were the shorter, low-waisted dresses and revealing styles worn by the Flappers, the 'bobbed' hairstyles, cloche hats, the casual, haphazard fashion of a mixture of brightly colored clothes.
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Due tu prohibition, crime rates in many major cities spiked due to monopolizing speakeasies.
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Hemingway is among the most prominent of the "Lost Generation" of expatriate writers who lived in Paris in the 1920s.
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The Harlem Renaissance was important because it inspired an explosion of cultural pride and was perceived as a new beginning for African Americans.
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The beginning of 1920 saw a new era of anti-alchohol ways along with its devastating effects in America.
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Prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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Slashed taxes and legislation that supported private business boosted small and big business in the 1920s
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The high production rates in world war one shifted to peacetime production which lead to consumerism
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Broadway musicals thrived in this decade
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Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States with a national origins quota.
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took place in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach evolution in school.
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Ballroom dancing was overtaken by the waltz during this time period.
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Following the end of World War I, the industrial might of the United States was unleashed for domestic, peaceful purposes.
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Consumerism came into its own throughout the 1920s as a result of mass production, new products on the market, and improved advertising techniques.
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Religious parents were angered and began to take action against the education system for removing faith from the education system.
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Embodied powerful myths about American Dreams.
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The Great Depression is one of the worst economic events in world history.
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The stock market crash in 1929 plummeted the US and a majority of the world into the Great Depression.
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On Oct. 24, 1929, known as "Black Tuesday" when the market opened 11% lower.
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higher tax on imports to force Americans to buy American products and get the economy rebooted.
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The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers, ages 13 to 20, falsely accused in Alabama of raping two white women on a train in 1931.
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Mandated that all federally funded or assisted construction projects pay the “prevailing wage”
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A government corporation starting in 1932 that provided financial support to state and local governments
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Five major provisions each enshrined special provisions for unions in the law, such as prohibiting judges from using injunctions to stop strikes and making union-free contracts unenforceable in federal courts.
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Twentieth Amendmendment indicated the beginning and ending dates of presidential and congressional terms.
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The Farm Credit Act provided $200 million in loans for farmers facing foreclosure.
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An attempt by Franklin Roosevelt under his New Deal to provide recovery and relief from the Depression.
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Shut down of the nations banks, which allowed the government to examine all banks and allow those that were financially sound to open back up.
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Organized to utilize the nation's unemployed youth by building roads, planting trees and improving parks.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) preserves and promotes public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks
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The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent of the country and affecting 27 states severely.
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The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.
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Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA") in 1935 to protect the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining.
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Employed 85 million people in construction and other jobs.
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Permanent agency designed to ensure that the older segment of society always would have enough money to survive.
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Requires corporations to provide all information on stocks.
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Masses of rain come in 1939 ending the dust bowl
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The first African American to play in the MLB.
