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More people lived in cities than farms for the first time. Consumer culture began.
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Cancels billion dollar orders for war items guns, tanks, planes
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prohibition was started 18th amendment
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Women got the right to vote.
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ford model t, eletric iron, vacuum cleaner
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conflict between city dwellers and small town residents. protestants and catholics. blacks and whites, and new women and old fashioned family traditions.
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Longest lasting economic downturn in the world
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Investors sold their stock because products were not selling 12.9 million shares were traded away on black tuesday. five days later 16 million shares were traded away on black tuesday. because of this panic swept wall street
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Franklin D. Rosevelt won an overwhelming victory against Herbert Hoover
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By this time close to 15 million were unemployed and half ot the country's banks failed
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The social security act is passed by congress. Government takes money for your income and saves it for you for an emergency.
