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The Senate refuses to ratify the Versailles Treaty or authorize United States participation in the League of Nations.
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The Palmer Raids begin, launching a period of intense government persecution of radical political dissidents in response to the postwar Red Scare sweeping the nation.
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Cotton prices at New Orleans peak at 42 cents a pound, prompting Southern farmers to plant the largest crop in history. The resulting overproduction causes a collapse in prices, with cotton falling to less than 10 cents a pound by early 1921. Cotton farmers will toil in near-depression conditions throughout most of the 1920s and 30s.
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Charismatic black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant, convenes the first International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in New York's Madison Square Garden.
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The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified, granting women the right to vote.
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people were starving looking for food and a place to stay warm or try to find a job.
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The United States Census reports, for first time, that more Americans live in urban areas than in rural areas. However, "urban" is defined as any town with more than 2,500 people.
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The Sacco-Vanzetti trial begins; immigrant Italian radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will eventually be convicted of murder and executed
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Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time; the New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three.
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during the great depression kids were really hungery and would do anything to get a meal kids would be for sale so the mom and dad could get money so they could eat
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people would walk to a different counrty to find work and start a new life
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when the stock market crash people did not know what was going on so they were scared on what was going to happen
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became 31 presdent
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jobs were shutdown since the stock market crashed forceing people to live on the streets
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The tallest building in the world, the Empire State Building opens in New York City. It is 1,250 feet tall and remains the tallest building until the World Trade Center opens in New York in 1972.
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fter leaving from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland on May 20, Amelia Earhart lands her red Lockheed Vega 5B airplane in a pasture in Ireland. The 15-hour flight over the Atlantic Ocean was the first solo flight over the Atlantic by a woman.
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people would do anything for food or money selling all their stuff and even kids so they can eat
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After many banks are forced to close, Congress passes the Emergency Banking Act. Only banks with the backing of the federal reserve are allowed to open and many of the nation's banks will be open again by the end of the month.
