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Humans Flying
Wright Bros got the first plane at Kitty Hawk NC. We're moving on up in the world -
Rockefeller Health Foundation in the South
Wiped out hookworm by the 1920s -
Bolshevik Rev
started Ams fear for red Russia -
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Am life in the Roaring 20s to The Pol of Boom and Bust
this is just the title of these 2 chapters -
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Red Scare
Ppl scared of communism taking over Am gov so they all freaked out. It affected the whole nation socially, politically and economically. -
Wall St Bombing
38 dead and 141 injured. Started the end of the red scare. -
Hooded Hoodrats of the KKK
New KKK spawned by the post war reaction. A lot of political influence and got a lot of followers. -
Monkey Business in Tennessee
In the 20s education leaped forward (idk why it's called this) -
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Immigration Nation
800,000 new peeps came to turn up in America with hard ass Harding -
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The Golden Age of Gangstas
500 ganstas were killed in Chigaco gang fights. 1925="Scarface" Al Capone, the OG gangsta. He did 6 years of gang warfare which got him racks on racks -
Unfriendly Fire
Science and education were honestly feeling so attacked right now by fundalmentalists. -
Presidential Election
Republicans nominated Warren Harding and democrats nominated James Cox, Harding won. Harding later died so Clavin Coolidge became president. -
Cars
machinery were the new messiah and the car was its primary profit -
Presidental Election
Calvin Coolidge was re-running and the democrast nominated John Davis. There was another political party this year, Progressive Party, who nominated Robert La Follette. Coolidge won. -
Radio
Made long distance program broadcasting possible -
1st Sound Movie
"The Jazz Singer" -
Presidential Election
reps=Herbert Hoover
demos=Al Smith
reps were credited with the booming economy so they got more votes, Hoover won. -
Great Depression
The stock market in America crashed on this date which sparked the whole world's economy to crash greatly. This is the lowest the economy has ever dropped which devasted everyone worldwide. -
The Jazz Age
Jazz became popular in the 1920s, flappers became a thing and some old people were outraged by the new level of PDA happening. End with the Great Depression in the 1930s