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Henry Ford developed the mass-produced automobile, which sold at an affordable price. It pioneered the use of the assembly line.
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After World War I 1919-20s, when Harding was President, the US and Britain returned to isolationism. The US economy "boomed" but Europe continued to struggle.
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A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished such as the poetry produced by Langston Hughes.
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Caused hysteria and Intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas in America.
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Because of the exuberant, freewheeling popular culture of the decade, this era in U.S. history was a time when many people defied Prohibition, indulged in new styles of dancing and dressing, and rejected many traditional moral standards.
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Harding Administration secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land. Public angry because of corruption in government
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Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Stalin rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union.
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Otherwise known as the “Monkey Trial”1925, the trial pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism in schools.
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On May 21, 1927, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Lindbergh was just 25 years old when he completed the trip.
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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the 1929 Valentine's Day murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park garage on the morning of Valentine's Day.
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Stock Market Crash of 1929 or the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash that occurred in late October 1929. It started on October 24 and continued until October 29, 1929, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
