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The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by ex-Confederate soldiers and other Southerners opposed to Reconstruction after the Civil War.
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The growth of radio was exceedingly increasing as families bought them to listen to interviews, or the television of their time.
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Amelia Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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On October 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit.
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The Jazz Age was a post-World War I movement in the 1920s from which jazz music and dance emerged.
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Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s 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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Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.
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Buying on margin is the purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker.
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The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.
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The Kellogg–Briand Pact is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to solve conflicts.
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Share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed on October 29, 1929, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.
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The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s.
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The post-World War II growth of the U.S. suburbs was facilitated by development of zoning laws, redlining, and numerous innovations in transport, and contributed to major segregation trends and decline of inner-city neighborhoods.
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Welfare capitalism is also the practice of businesses providing welfare services to their employees.
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The red scare was a period of time in which U.S citizens were scared that Russians were among them. Many bombs were mailed throughout the nation.
