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Woodrow Wilson
28th US president -
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Prohibition
a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages -
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Harlem renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem -
Quota System
limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year. 2. a policy of limiting the number of minority group members in a business firm, school, etc. -
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Warren G Harding
29th US president -
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Calvin Coolidge
30th US president -
Scopes trial
John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school -
Route 66
Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways within the U.S. Highway System -
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Herbert Hoover
31st US president -
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Great depression
the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
Black Tuesday
the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. -
Hawley smoot tariff act
act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. -
Dust Bowl
was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies -
Bonus army
The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C -
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Franklin D Roosevlet
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Boulder dam
oover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River