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Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the fighting in World War I.
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Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks party set up a Communist state.
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Congress ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States.
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With Russia now Communist, the U.S. population is increasingly worried about Communism's spread
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By this era, over 40% of African American population lives in northern cities.
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A period of intense government persecution of radical political followers in response to the Red Scare.
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The Strike where the members of the AA strike for more rights and have an organized Steel industry but was ultimately unsuccessful.
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Congress rejects participation in the Treaty and the League.
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The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified, granting women the right to vote.
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Republican Warren G. Harding is elected to the presidency by a landslide. Harding wins 60% of the popular vote and 75% of the electoral vote
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Congress passes immigration restrictions, for the first time creating a quota for European immigration to the United States
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The Sacco-Vanzetti trial begins; immigrant Italian radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will later be convicted of murder and executed.
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By the beginning of 1922, the immigration population increases by 60%.
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Congress passes the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, raising tariffs to protect the American market for American manufactures. The tariff boosts the domestic economy of the Roaring Twenties.
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President Warren G. Harding dies of stroke so then Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascends to presidency.
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By 1924 the KKK has over 4.5 million members.
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They receive full citizenship.
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American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. Case between science and religion.
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Pan American airlines inaugurates the transatlantic flights.
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Fifteen nations, including the United States, sign the Kellogg-Briand pact "outlawing" war. The unenforceable pact will be made a mockery through the rise of European fascist states in the 1930s.
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Herbert Hoover, running on a slogan of "A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage," is elected to the presidency.
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Unemployment averages 3.2% for the year.
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The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression.
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Unemployment averages 8.9% for the year.
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A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies.
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Congress passes the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, steeply raising import duties in an attempt to protect American manufactures from foreign competition.
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Unemployment averages 16.3% for the year.
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Unemployment averages 24.1% for the year.
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Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency.
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Repeals prohibition
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Creates social security system in America,
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a second term as president, winning in a landslide over Republican Alf Landon. Roosevelt wins every state but Maine and Vermont.
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People believe the economy is improving so many programs are cut.