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Jazz is a perfect way to describe the carefree vibe of the 20s.
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Two raids were conducted of suspected radicals and anarchists. 500 foreign citizens were deported as a result and this led to the Red Scare.
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Was an attempt by the weakened Association of Iron, steel, and tin workers to organize the US steel industry.
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Prohibition (The 18th Amendment) is the ban on making and selling of alcohol.
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The senate spurned the treaty of Versailles.
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This Amendment prohibits any United States Citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
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He proposed lower taxes and he also put higher tariffs on foreign trade to help American companies.
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Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States.
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It increased the tariff barriers on foreign manufactured goods which made it more difficult for European nations to trade and as a result pay off their war debts.
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Germany had to pay 132 billion gold marks (US$33 billion) in reparations to cover civilian damage caused during the war.
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He was what people called an isolationist, because he wanted to stay out of other nations' problems except for self-defense.
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Ford produced more than a million automobiles , at a rate of one per minute ! Each car costs $335. They used an assembly line, that's when the products move along a conveyer belt to speed up production.
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Inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting long island's north shore.
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John Scoped created a national conflict by breaking a law caused by fundamentalism.
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The KKK believed that America should be racially pure, which means they discriminated the blacks.
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The custom-built, single engine, single-seat monoplane that was flown solo by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927.
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Several terrible events - including bombings - and the "Red Scare" caused Americans to fear "radicals".
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Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the 1927 season and with it sets a record that would stand for 34 years.
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It was Calvin Coolidge's creation and the pact was signed by 15 other nations. The treaty stated that these nations will not make a war with one another except in time of self-defense.
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Hoover was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933.
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It was one of the leading factors of the Great Depression and the cause of the collapse was the increased use of buying stocks "on margin".
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A 102-story skyscraper located on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets in Midtown, Manhattan, New York City.
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Began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
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The Bonus Army was the popular name for an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers.
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Two United States Air Force B-2 bombers attacked Islamic State training camps in Libya overnight, killing more than 80 people.
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The Berlin Wall Falls and USSR Dissolves.
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Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian group based in San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite.