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Th US senate had refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or United States participation in the league of nations.
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The 19th amendment is passed giving women the right to vote.
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Republican Warren Harding wins election.
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Congress passes Immigration restrictions, for southern and eastern Europeans.
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Congress passes the Fordney-Mcumber Tariff, raising American tariffs on many imported goods to protect factories and farms.
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President Harding dies and gets replaced by Calvin Coolidge.
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The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billion.
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40,000 Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Herbert Hoover is president
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The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression.