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The House of Representatives ratify the 19th Amendment, and two weeks later it is ratified by the Senate.
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This is the peace treaty signed ending armed fighting between Germany and the Allied Powers. - The end of WWI
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The trials of Sacco and Venzetti begin for the murder of two men during an armed robbery
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The Teapot Dome Scandal was an incedent of bribery from 1922-1923 in which the U.S. Government sold the Navy's petrolium to private oil industries without competitive bidding
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Immigration was severly cut due to new laws. The Red Scare and fear of Communism was one of the causes for thes new laws.
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The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes was the landmark case that upheld the law that it was illegal to teach evolution in the public school. Although this was a defeat for progressives, the case lead to the change in thinking about teaching of evolution
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Charles Lindberg completes the first transatlantic flight.
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"Black Tuesday" - The bottom fell out of the stock market setting off the worst economic depression in American history.
