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slavery abolished
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jim crows law
black people are separated -
Anti-Saloon League set up
Urge to ban alcohol
claimed it led to crime, insanity and unreliable workers, caused family divorce -
Niagara Movement
set up by W.E.B Du Bois -
NAACP National Association for the Advcancement of the Coloued People
Found by W.E.B Du Bois
to ensure equality, eliminate prejudice -
starting of moving assembly line
starting of mass production -
Set up of UNIA, the Universal Negro Improvement Association
set up by Marcus Garvey in Jamaica
self-efficient nation in Africa, later in the US, then he got arrested after claiming himself as the president. -
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WWI
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Ku Klux Klan reformed
Against black, Jewish, immigrants, Catholics, left-wings
basically a terrorist group
reformed by William Simmons -
18th amendment to the United States of Constitution
banned manufacturing, transport, and sales of alcohol, started to impact several states -
Workers went on strike
meant communist? the red scare? -
The American Legion
Set up by WWI soldiers, urge to pass laws against immigrants, communists -
letter bombs
30 letter bombs sent to important people in USA -
Anarchists bigger bombs
caused media hysteria -
Treaty of Versailles
American President wanted Germany to rebuild, therefore thought that the treaty was too harsh
did not join the League of Nation -
Start of Prohibition
Prohibition agents set up to catch illegal crimes committed about alcohol -
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Sacco and Venzetti Case
2 men killed 15777 stolen
they are anachists
carried guns, it has the same type of bullet
61"eyewitnesses"
--however no clear evidence, caused protests all over US
finally executed -
Sacco and Venzetti arrested
as title -
19th Amendment to the United States Constitution
give woman equal and full suffrage -
Emergency Quota Act
3% immigrants from any country according to census -
Emergency Tariff Act
Wheat, sugar meat, wool, agricultural good -
Budget and Accounting Act
Control government spending -
Revenue Act
cut individual tax and war tax, rise business tax -
Fordney and McCumber
raise tariff on industrial goods
give president the power to rise tax every year -
Immigration Act
2% 150 000 a year -
setting up the African Orthodox Church
by Marcus Garvey -
the monkey trial
high school biology teacher John Scopes put on trial found guilty and fined 100 dollars for teaching evolution. -
Sacco and Venzetti executed
as title -
St Valentine's Day Massacre
7 people killed by the Bugs Moran by Al Carpone's Gang in Chicago
No one arrested -
Wall Street Crash
Stock Market of New York Started to fall, everybody rushed into banks to get their money back but the banks were also involved in the stock Market, so banks and companies went bankrupt. -
Hays Code
No picture should be produced that will lower the moral standards(of the movies audiences) -
end of ban for teaching evolution
the law against teaching evolution is scraped