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It was the enforcement for the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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The 19th Amendment allowed millions more of women to get the right to vote.
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He won on promise of return to “normalcy”. The first Republican since the end of Reconstruction to win a former state of the Confederacy.
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The 29th president , serving from March 4, 1921 until his death.
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An Act to limit the immigration of aliens into the United States. It established the nation's first limits on the number of immigrants who could enter the United States.
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The Chamonix Games were recognised as the first Olympic Winter Games.
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It made the quotas stricter and permanent. Made to keep out certain ethnic groups.
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He was a famous American short-story writer and novelist. Best known for “The Great Gatsby”.
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A Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of mankind's origin.
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The prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school.
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The most destructive river flood in the history of the United States.
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Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history,
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He set a record for the most scoreless innings in the World Series. First batter to hit 50 home runs in a season. First batter to hit 60 homers in a season.
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An American gangster and businessman. He was the leader of the Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era
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The murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang
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When panicked sellers traded nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange , causing investors $5 billion in losses.