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The United States was producing over half of the worlds goods due to the destruction of Europe
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Farms faced crippling issues from the mass industrialization during the 20s.
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Warren H. Harding won the election and marked the beginning of the Republican rule of the 1920s.
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The increase in demand for oil and electricity sparked huge economic expansion during the 1920s.
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The government in the 1920's favored big business which helped to expand the U.S.'s economy
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Industrial workers faced terrible working conditions. On the other hand their pay went up, but the labor unions were losing steam.
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The emergence of jazz occurred in the 1920s.
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The radio changed the way communication was distributed.
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Women started to join the labor force in the 1920's.
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Because of the changing cultural environment of the 1920's, women sought for more control in their relationships.
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Writer of the 1920s
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An American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century.
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An American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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An expatriate American poet and critic, as well as a major figure in the early modernist movement.
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A British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
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An intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
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An American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.
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A proponent of Black nationalism in the United States and most importantly Jamaica.
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A prominent African-American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Jamaican writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
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Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society.
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A religious connotation that indicates unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs.
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Prohibiting the sale and distribution of alcohol.
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Speakeasy's became common as a result of prohibition.
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Current US citizens didn't want new people to migrate into the US.
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Limited the number of immigrants being allowed into the country.
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In a three-way contest, incumbent Republican President Calvin Coolidge won election to a full term.
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Harding's postwar presidency was marked by scandals and corruption. He also appointed incompetent people to his cabinet.
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"The business of America is business."
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When Coolidge decided not to run for a second term in 1928, the Republicans nominated Herbert Hoover. Even though he had never held elective office.
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The emergence of the automobile changed and shaped the upcoming culture of the 20's.
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A sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors.
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It's powers were later enlarged to meet the economic crisis farmers faced during the Great Depression.
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A severe worldwide economic depression.
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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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A delay in the payment of debts or obligations.
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US Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance backed mortgage loan which is provided by an FHA-approved lender.
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Shut down the banks temporarily
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A US labor law and consumer law passed by the US Congress to authorize the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery.
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Prohibition was repealed and deemed unconstitutional.
