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People used borrowed money to invest in stocks, as well as other stocks to buy other stocks. People became very rich off of it, until the crash in 1929.
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Gave women the right to vote. Now, women are treated almost as equal superiors to men because they have the same rights and freedoms.
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KDKA was the first brodcast radio station. Orginated out of Pittsburgh. First show was at 6pm and was ran by four men; Engineer William Thomas; telephone line operator John Frazier; R.S. McClelland, a standby and Leo Rosenberg, radio’s first announcer. This created public news to everyone in the world.
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This act limited the number of immigrants that could be in the United States. It passed because the number immigrants took away native-born Americans from achieveing higher pay.
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After the end of WW1, many of the farmers in the south were in debt. The boll weevil ruined 85% of the cotton crop, the South biggest contrubited to the economy. It basically ate the entire crop while farmers were dealing bankrupcty.
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The Nations Orgins Act used the cenus to develop a limit number of how many people of one ethnic group could belong to the United States as citizens. The reason for the N.O,A. was to control the amount of immigrants, and the value of immigrants.
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Trial was against John Scopes who taught students the theory of evalution in his class, which was against the law. Later was found convicted, but released because of a techinally appeal.
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An increase in the number of immigrants made the Ku Klux Klan and its 40,000 members march on Washington to show its protest against these new comers.
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Published during the age of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes showed the struggles and life of an average African American. Gave a voice to the color people, and made the white people look at the "problem" from another point of view.
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Charles Lindberg was the man who completed the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Convicted of murder on July 14th, 1921, both men were exceuted on the charge. Both men were later found not to be involed and were arreated and charged based on their race.
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Was the republican candiate, and was the president during the stock market crash. He is blamed for not taking action sooner.