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Cotton production began to boom due to the war, and the economy in Texas was heavily sustained by cotton all throughout the 1920's.
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Starting in 1920 and lasting all throughout the decade, immigrants poured in to Texas from Mexico. Their numbers increased from 71,062 to 683,681 during the 20's.
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In 1920, the Cameron family donated a large chunk of land (as well as financial aid) to the city of Waco, Texas. This land was added on to the land that they had already donated 10 years earlier, named Cameron Park.
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Following ratification of the 19th Amendment, women gained suffrage in 1920.
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On January 24, 1924, Vladimir Lenin died, and Josef Stalin officially won the power struggle in the USSR.
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Al Capone takes contorl of Chicago Bootlegging Racket
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Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
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The Stock Market Crashes
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Herbert Hoover Becomes President
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The first large scale Jewish-Arab violence was caused by a clash at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem in 1929.