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the first movie theaters opened in New York Citiy
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alcoholic beverages could not be manufactured, transported, or sold in the United States this was also the 19th amendment
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In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote, and declared that they deserved full citizenship.
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women were more free and then came along the flapper.
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Louis Armstrong is credited with putting Jazz on the musical map. The 1920's were nown as the 'jazz age'.
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929 was one of the main causes of the Great depression.
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By the 1930s, thousands of schools were operating on reduced hours or were closed down entirely
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On May 9, 1934, a dust storm carried about 350 million tons of dirt 2,000 miles eastward and dumped four million tons of prairie dirt in Chicago.
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the outbreak of world war 2
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A 1940 poll revealed that 1.5 million married women had been abandoned by their husbands.
