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Republican Harding defeats Democrat James M. Cox with 404 electoral votes.
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Great Britain, France, Japan, Italy, and the United States promise to limit their naval forces as well as respect China's sovereignty and outlaw poison gas and submarine attacks on business ships.
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A movie with sound called Phonofilm is played in New York's Rivoli Theater.
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Harding becomes sick and dies from a heart attack following a trip to Alaska.
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Coolidge allows Indians to be citizens but several states still prohibit them from voting.
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William Jennings Bryan represents the Dayton public school suing teacher and football coach John T. Scopes for teaching evolutionary biology.
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Coolidge defeats his Democrat opponent John W. Davis with 382 electoral votes
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A patent for the electronic television system is produced three years later.
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The flight takes nearly 15 hours from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Culmore, Northern Ireland.
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Republican Hoover defeats his Democrat opponent Alfred E. Smith with 444 electoral votes.
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Over two years from this date, more than $50 billion is lost from the stock market. No other crash matches these losses to this day.
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This growth is approximately 123,202, 624 more people in the country.
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The act spiked tariffs on foreign goods with the hope that American prices might increase. Foreign markets suffered and joined America in a worldwide economic depression.
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Francis Scott Kelly wrote the song in 1814 when the British navy was bombing the Baltimore Harbor.
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RFC provides loans to banks, railroad companies, and other private enterprises. While these corporations receive short term relief, the general public continues to struggle.
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Democrat Roosevelt beats Republican Hoover by a landslide, claiming 472 of 531 electoral votes.
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The act closes down banks across the nation for four days. FDR tells Federal Reserve Banks to supply private banks with the money they need. The act also transitions America off the gold standard to paper currency.
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The Fireside Chats are for encouraging the nation and explaining how the New Deal will work.
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CCC provides 2.5 million jobs to build parks, plant trees, and develop other projects. Single, young men (17-28) are the primary beneficiaries of the work program.
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The TVA brings jobs and electricity by building dams on the Tennessee River. Floods can be more controlled now and the local economy benefits greatly.
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The sale and purchase of alcoholic beverages are now legal.
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The NRA allowed companies to manipulate prices. This required suspending antitrust laws established years before. The Supreme Court declared the NRA unconstitutional and did the same for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration the following year.
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Roosevelt restores the right of workers to unionize with the hope that collective bargaining will result in higher wages.
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The SSA provides financial assistance to retired workers but requires a fraction of existing worker's checks. At that time, 2% of the first $3,000 earned go towards Social Security, half coming from the employer and half from the employee.
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Sen. Long criticized FDR's approach to fixing the economy. He proposed in his Share Our Wealth programs that money should be taken from the rich and distributed. He becomes very popular but dies in Louisiana.
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Roosevelt's popularity increased during his first term and he defeats the Republican Alfred Landon with 523 electoral votes.
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Attempting to lower federal spending, Roosevelt cuts spending in June 1937. Unemployment increases by nearly five percent to 19%. Manufacturing output also decreases with a 34% decline.
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Set the minimum wage to $0.25/hr and prohibits minors from working
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In a letter, Einstein and other German physicists tell Roosevelt that Germany may be developing an atomic weapon. Roosevelt initiates the Manhattan Project, an American attempt to build the first atomic weapon.
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Neither Roosevelt nor the American population is eager to join another world war.
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The United States population increases by 132,164,569, a small number compared to the previous census reports
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The U.S. Navy increases by 11%. America begins to anticipate involvement in world war.
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Roosevelt defeats Republican Wendell Wilkie with 449 electoral votes. FDR is the only president in American history to be elected four times.
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'A date which will live in infamy." Over 2,400 Americans die at Pearl Harbor; the navy is crippled for years. The United States joins the Allies against Axis forces four days later.
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Pearl Harbor ends American neutrality. In Europe, U.S. troops fight alongside the British forces. In the Pacific, America tackles the Japanese empire.