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Brought to Harlem from Jamaica, the UNIA advocated for individual and racial pride in African Americans
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Legislation enforcing the 18th amendment which prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol
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Farmers saw prosperity during WWI due to increased production, but when the war ended, farmers had too many goods on their hands and an equally large amount of debt
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Religious leaders were able to capture a large audience by using new communication techniques such as the radio
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African Americans started to receive acclaim as jazz music was broadened in popularity
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An African American poet who wrote about African American heritage and what it was like living in America at that time
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Jazz musician who helped spread jazz music across the country
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Poet during the 1920s who revolutionized poetry and became part of the early modernist movement
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First radio broadcast and it quickly became a new medium of entertainment
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William Harding is elected president
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Limited immigration to 3% foreign-born persons from a given nation counted in the 1910 Census
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Provided $1.2 million for prenatal and baby-care centers in rural areas
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A brief recession in the United States following WWI, but the U.S quickly was brought out
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Increased the duties on foreign manufactured goods by 25% in order to protect U.S. business, but made it so that European nations were not able to pay off war debts
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Satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis which criticizes 1920s middle class society
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Established a cycle of payments flowing from the U.S. to Germany and from Germany to the Allies in order to pay off war debts
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Second quota act passed which limited the percentage to 2% to ensure discrimination against southern and eastern Europeans
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Allowed for both ends of the country to watch the same entertainment and entertainment became a staple part of American culture
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Calvin Coolidge is reelected president
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Congress discovered that Secretary Fall had accepted bribes for granting oil leases
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Case on whether or not evolution should be taught in schools
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Garvey is tried to fraud and his conviction puts an end to the UNIA movement
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Playwright who criticized 1920s society
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Novel written about the decline of American Dream in the 1920s and the demoralization of 1920s society
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Published by Hemingway, the book details a man trying to look for morality in the so called "immoral" 1920s society
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U.S. investors feared that their properties in Mexico might be confiscated, so Morrow created a resolution to protect American economic ventures in Latin America
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Allowed for both ends of the country to watch the same entertainment and entertainment became a staple part of American culture
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When Lingbergh returns home to the U.S., he is met with a reaction greater than the returning WWI soldiers. This shows Americas shift in prioritizing entertainment
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Herbet Hoover is elected president
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Replaces the railroad and serves of an example of the U.S. prioritizing consumerism
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Investors began to panic and there was an unprecedented selling of stocks which plunged stock prices further
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Stock market collapsed, sending U.S. into depression
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Increased taxes on foreign imports in order to protect businesses from foreign makers, but ended up reducing trade between all nations.
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Severe drought in the Great Plains caused lands to become arid, lasting a decade
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Attempted to help farmers stabilize prices, but failed to handle the continued overproduction.
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Offered outright grants of federal money to states and local governments that were operating soup kitchens and other forms of relief for the jobless and homeless
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Allotted money to state and local governments for building roads, bridges, damns, and other public works
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Realizing the economic value in alcohol, FDR legalizes the sale of beer and wine in order to raise tax money
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FDR closes bank and states that they will be reopened when they are reorganized on a sound basis
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Government examines the finances of banks and reopened the ones stable enough
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Provided low interest farm loans and mortgages to prevent foreclosures on the property of indebted farmers
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Employed young men on projects on federal lands and paid their families small monthly sums
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Hired thousands of Tennessee Valley residents to build dams, operate electric power plants, control flooding, etc.
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Provided refinancing of small homes to prevent foreclosures
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Part of FDR's financial recovery programs, the FDIC guaranteed individual bank deposits up to $5,000
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Hired laborers for temporary constriction projects sponsored by the federal government
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Created to regulate the stock market and place strict limits on the kind of speculative practices that had led the crash
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Gave the construction industry and homeowners a boost by insuring bank loans for building new houses and repairing old ones
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Provided loans to sharecroppers, tenants, and small farmers. Also established federal camps where migrant workers could find housing
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Steinbeck wrote a novel chronicling the hardships of Americans as they moved from the Midwest to California during the Dust Bowl
