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a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century.
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graduated from West Point in 1886 and served in the Spanish-American War, the Philippines Insurrection, the Mexican Expedition and was the overall American Commander in Europe during World War I. Following the war, he served as Army Chief of Staff.
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An American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry.
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He was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States.
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a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements to which he founded Universal Negro Improvement Assocation and African Communitites Leaque
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a blacksmith who was drafted into the army during WWI. While serving in the 82nd Infantry Division, he took command and captured a total of 132 German soldiers. York was promoted to the rank of sergeant and received the Congressional Medal of Honor. His heroic story was told in the film Sergeant York
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An influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration.
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an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
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the Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.
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the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West had a huge impact on urban life in the United States.
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a promise given by the German Government to the United States of America in response to US demands relating to the conduct of the First World War.
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the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents.
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The battle was caused because the French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, supreme commander of the Allied forces, ordered massive attacks against the Germans all along the western front.
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one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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a failed effort to ratify the League of Nations, economic stagnation and the failing Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding ran for president on a promise to return the nation to a better sense of normalcy.
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The Great Depression caused bank closures and business failures and by its end, saw a lot of american unemployed.
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A time when the culture began to bloom during this time there was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars.
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the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. There was little rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a potentially destructive combination and dust.
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an unprecedented number of reforms addressing the catastrophic effects of the Great Depression designed to help the U.S.
