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During the 1920s sexual mores, gender roles, hair styles, and dress all changed profoundly
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During the "roaring 20s" many different types of music were presented like: prosperity and dissipation, jazz bands, bootleggers, raccoon coats, bathtub gin, flappers, flagpole sitters, bootleggers, and marathon dancers.
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The Palmer Raids begin, launching a period of intense government persecution of radical political dissidents in response to the postwar Red Scare sweeping the nation.
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After decades of agitation and protest on the 18th of August, women were finally given the right to vote.
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The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 established the nation's first numerical limits on the number of immigrants who could enter the United States
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Baseball's World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time. The New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three.
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Macy's held its first parade but instead of focusing on Thanksgiving it was called Macy's Christmas Parade
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a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a true television system in London, launching a revolution in communication and entertainment.
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The first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France.
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"Black Tuesday" hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day.