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Riots Kill
There was 25 race riots had erupted around the country,
In June 1921, there was 30 people died during a race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma. -
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A Turbulent decade
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Red Scare
This period of aticommunist hysteria -
Boston police strike
formed a union to seek better pay and woring conditons
Edwin Curtis refuesed to recognize the union. He fired 19 officers for engageing in union activities.
there was 75% of he Boston police force went on strike. -
The Steel strike
There were 365,000 steelworkers in western Pennsylvania-many of them immigrants- walked off the job. -
United mine Workers strike
It was the last major strike. Some 400,000 coal miners walked out of the mines. -
Palmer Raids
The federal officials arrested thousands of suspected radicals in 33 cities nationwide.
The government claimed that radicals were armed to the teeth, just three pistsols were seized. -
President Election of 1920
Harding ran for president and won it.
He received 16 million votes, more than 60 percent of the popular vote, and 404 electoral votes to Cox's 127 -
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AFRICAN AMERICANS COMING TO AMERICA
During the 1920s some 800,000 African Americans joined the hundres of thousands of AFrican Americans who had moved to the North during World War I. By 1930 the North African American population had reached almost 2.5 million, more than double tis size in 1910 -
Women Right
Women Win The Vote In 1920, when women finally won the vote throughout the nation. They won their right to vote after the Nineteenth Amendment was passed. -
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TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1924, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
Immigration Act of 1924
It reduced this quota to 2% of the 1890 population figures for each nationaliy.
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Sacco and Vanzetti were Executed
One of the most sensational trials of the 1920s involved two Italian immigrants who were conivcted of murder and sentenced to death. Nicola Sacco was a shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzeti peddled firsh from a psuhcart.
They charged with murders of a paymaster and a guard during a 1920 payroll robbery outside a shoe factory near Boston. -
Election of 1928
Hoover ran on the same pro-business polices that Presidents Harding and Coolidge had supported.
