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Palmer Raids
It was a period of intense government persecution of radical dissidents responding to the Red Scare. It was a series of raids done by the Department of Justice. It was done to capture suspected radical leftists and deport them. -
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Sacco and Vanzetti Case
It was a trial based on murder that included Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The two immigrants were accused of murder even know the evidence was not really conclusive. They were executed in Massachusetts in 1927. -
Tariffs up
Congress passed the Fordney-McCumber Tariff. It raised tariff duties to protect American market for manufacturers -
German Reparations
After WW1, Germany lost the war and was responsible for the war. They had to pay money to the winning side. They paid the United States, France, and Great Britain. -
Harding dies
President Warren G. Harding dies on Aug. 2 1923. He died from a stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Calvin Coolidge took over the presidency. -
The Harlem Renaissance
It is when thousands of African Americans joined in the great migration from the rural south to industrial cities in the north. In Harlem, African American artistic development, racial pride, and political organization thrived. The result was a flowering of African American arts that became known as the Harlem Renaissance. -
Scopes violates ban on teaching evolution
A Tennessee schoolteacher named John Scopes was teaching how humans evolved from monkeys. This contradicted the religious belief of being made by god. The fundamentalists won the trial and Scopes had to pay a fine. -
Klansmen March
It is when Ku Klux Klan members marched down the street in Washington D.C. 40,000 members marched down Pennsylvania Avenue. They marched right past the White House. -
Stock Market Collapse
The Stock Market Collapse is what caused the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaks in September 1929.
The Dow will bottom out at a depression era low in 1932. -
Chicago Mob
Also known as the Saint Valentines Day Massacre. It was the worst incident of the long turf war between Chicago mobsters fighting to control the bootlegging trade. Al Capone and his gang murdered six followers of rival Bugs Moran.
