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This made the sale, distribution, and manufacturing of alcohol illegal.
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The U.S. senate rejects the Versailles Treaty mainly for the League of Nations.
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The 1920 census reported that more people now lived in urban areas than in rural areas.
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Garvey convenes the first meeting of the Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World.
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Steel workers yielded the fight and went back to work.
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Supply for farmed goods increased steadily but the demand did not, leaving farmers with a sharp loss of income.
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Two Italian Anarchists were tried and convicted by a biased court and raised attention across the nation.
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Cotton price peaked at 43 cents and then overproduction caused it to drop drastically, putting many farmers out of business.
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Albert Fall was accused of trying to gain access to government oil via bribes.
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The U.S. and Japan were to respect each other's Pacific Holdings.
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The World Series is broadcast on radio for first time.
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Tariffs were raised, helping out local manufacturers, but killing foreign good prices.
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T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land.
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Sinclair Lewis publishes Babbitt.
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The Yankee Stadium is built in the Bronx.
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Jean Toomer publishes Cane.
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This was one of the first equality acts for women put forth before congress.
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Ford’s market capitalization exceeds 1 billion.
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This act put a hold on “undesirable” immigrants such as those from eastern europe.
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A high school teacher is put to trial for having taught the theory of evolution, which was banned at the time.
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Alain LeRoy Locke publishes The New Negro.
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Bruce Barton linked Christianity and business in this nonfiction novel.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
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This act made it illegal in the state of Tennessee to teach anything other than creationism
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Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises.
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Langston Hughes publishes Harlem Dream (Deferred).
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Lindbergh makes the first solo transatlantic flight and becomes a hero.
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Claude McKay publishes Home to Harlem.
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This was the birth of Mickey Mouse.
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Herbert Hoover is elected having run on the slogan “A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage”.
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Eric P. Kelly publishes The Trumpeter Of Krakow.
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Capone’s gang members assassinate rival bootleggers.
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The Dow Jones dives around 500 points; over 16 million shares sold in one day.
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Herbert Hoover believed that charities and private industries should be responsible for aiding efforts to end the Great Depression.
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The government began deporting Mexicans and Mexican Americans without any sort of due process whatsoever.
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FDR assembles an academic team to advise him on the current state of the country.
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On the premise that Roosevelt was not Hoover, he wins the election by a landslide, and begins to implement the New Deal.
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Banks were permitted to reopen when they were deemed financially secure.
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This act allowed the President to regulate industry in an attempt to stimulate the economy.
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Farmers were offered subsidies to leave part of their land bare and to kill any excess livestock which boosted prices.
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This act sanctioned the organization to take care of various resource needs in the Tennessee valley.
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The CCC provided jobs for unemployed and unmarried men.
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More money was provided to the state and local efforts for relief.
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Under the Secretary of the Interior, public construction jobs were provided.
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The FDIC would insure all bank deposits up to 5,000 dollars. The number is now 250,000$.
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Drought conditions made it much easier for “black blizzards” to strike.
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Money would be taken from one’s income and put towards a private fund to aid the unemployed, disabled, young mothers, and so on and so forth.
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This act made anti-union tactics illegal.
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Child labor was outlawed, and minimum wage established.
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By this time, over 2.5 million people had fled the areas ravaged by the storms.
