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Opposition in the Senate, particularly from Republican politicians Henry Cabot Lodge and William Borah and especially in regard to Article X of the Covenant, ensured that the United States would not ratify the agreement.
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Al Capone was heavily involved in gang activity and moved to Chicago to make more money smuggling and bootlegging liquor during Prohibition.
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A Law passed that enforced prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
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Amendment that prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
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TIME was first published on as a newsmagazine which was summarized and organized so that news was available to "busy men" so they could stay informed.
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Coolidge was the 30th president of the USA and as President he demonstrated his determination to preserve the old moral and economic precepts amid the material prosperity which many Americans were enjoying.
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As a central example of the creative efforts coming out of the burgeoning New Negro Movement or Harlem Renaissance, the book is considered by literary scholars and critics to be the definitive text of the movement.
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The subject of the American Dream and the themes of success and failure are really why it's such an important novel.
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Was a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school.
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The Ku Klux Klan or the KKK, is the name of three distinct past and present organizations in the United States, which have advocated white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism, and at the time the measure of the Klan's influence was its march along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC in 1928.
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The Weary Blues was a collection of poems that included iconic works such as “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “The Weary Blues”.
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United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs, but made it into history when he hit more than 60 home runs in one season.
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What made Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra famous were the weekly broadcasts on radio station WHN. One track in particular, Creole Love Call became a worldwide sensation and gave both Ellington and Hall their first hit record.
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Lindbergh gained world wide fame throught is triumphant non-stop flight on May 20–21, 1927, made from Roosevelt Field located in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France.
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The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era.
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A 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them".
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Herbert Hoover was elected as the 31st President of the USA, and is known being in office during the onset of the Great Depression.
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Was the ‘premiere’ of Mickey and Minnie and was the first animation to include sound.
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as the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries and did not end in the United States until the onset of American mobilization for World War II at the end of 1941.
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She intended to fly to Paris in her single engine Lockheed Vega 5B to emulate Charles Lindbergh's solo flight. After a flight lasting 14 hours, 56 minutes during which she contended with strong northerly winds, icy conditions and mechanical problems, Earhart landed in a pasture at Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland.
