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He was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
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She was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States.
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He was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a major part of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, and he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.
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Coughlin was a vocal supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal. By 1934 he became a harsh critic of Roosevelt as too friendly to bankers. In 1934 he announced a new political organization called the National Union for Social Justice.
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It was the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States.
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A supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, Long split with Roosevelt in June 1933 to plan his own presidential bid for 1936 in alliance with the influential Catholic priest and radio commentator Charles Coughlin.
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He was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States.
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It was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States.
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It was a period of cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars.
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It was the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.
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It is a racial definition of national identity, and Martin Delany was the grandfather of Black Nationalism.
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It was a ¨new breed¨ of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
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The Ford Motor Company produced new and better models every year to supply the insatiable public demand. Increased wages and lower cost vehicles made possible through mass production meant that cars became increasingly affordable.
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During Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.
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It came into its own throughout the 1920s as a result of mass production, new products on the market, and improved advertising techniques.
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It was a period of dramatic change and economic growth in the U.S. state of Texas during the early 20th century that began with the discovery of a large petroleum reserve near Beaumont, Texas.
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It's a social, friendly, humanitarian, charitable, educational, institutional, constructive and expansive society, and is founded by persons desiring to do the utmost to work for the general uplift of the people of African ancestry of the world.
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It's a fraudulent investment operation where the operator pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator.
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It was a period of sustained economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States.
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Supported political lobbying against "such incentives to vice as indecent literature, suggestive plays and films, the open or secret sale of contraceptives, and the continued existence of brothels."
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He was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death.
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It was a bribery incident that took place in the United States.
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It restricted immigration into the United States, and it was the turning point in American immigration policy.
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Daugherty, pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Lebanon, Pa., cited by name two leading colleges for women in which he alleged that professors systematically seek to convert their classes to atheism.
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It's a novel by Sinclair Lewis, based largely on a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure toward conformity.
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He was the 30th President of the United States and a Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state.
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It was a U.S. federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set.
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An Interpretation as an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature, and was written by Alain LeRoy Locke.
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It was a novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922.
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It's a novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights.
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It's a novel written by the American author William Faulkner. It employs a number of narrative styles, including the technique known as stream of consciousness, pioneered by 20th-century European novelists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
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He was the 31st President of the United States was a professional mining engineer and was raised as a Quaker. A Republican, Hoover served as head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I.
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Hoover's voluntary form of farm aid at first appeared to succeed, but eventually failed to stop the decline of prices.
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It's a book written by John Galbraith about an economic history of the lead-up to the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
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Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors.
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He was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom and United States Secretary of the Treasury.
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It was the United States's first major-relief legislation, enabled under Herbert Hoover and later adopted and expanded by Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his New Deal.
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It began as a term for a group of close advisers to a political candidate or incumbent, prized for their expertise in particular fields.
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The first hundred days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency was a time in the history of the United States in which Roosevelt planned to put an end to the Great Depression.
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One of the most popular New Deal programs, it put three million young men to work in camps across America during the height of the Great Depression.
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The "Okie" migration of the 1930s brought in over a million newly displaced people; many headed to the farm labor jobs advertised in California's Central Valley.
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Most New Deal programs discriminated against blacks.
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President Roosevelt issued Proclamation 2039 ordering the suspension of all banking transactions, effective immediately.
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The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol.
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It was severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.
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It was an American political organization formed in 1934, primarily of wealthy business elites and prominent political figures because they opposed the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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It was an U.S. federal legislation that dealt with the status of Native Americans.
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It was a severe dust storm that occurred as a part of the Dust Bowl, and it was one of the worst dust storms in American history and it caused immense economic and agricultural damage
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It was first known as the Federal Council of Negro Affairs, an informal group of African-American public policy advisors to United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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President Franklin Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient.
