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The Great Migration of African Americans from the Southern countryside to Northern cities and increasing visibility of black culture-jazz and blues music. Millions of people joined the ku kulx klan.
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The 1920's is considered the Jazz Age because this was the time when Jazz music blossomed and became tremendously popular. It was a "golden age" for the genre.
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The Federal Volstead Act closed every tavern, bar and salón in the USA, because of the 18th Amendment ratified in 1919. Drinking was a symbol of all they dislike about the modern city.
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It was created the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, in where millions of woman worked in white-collar jobs and could afford to participate in the burgeoning consumer economy.
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First Commercial radio station in USA, three years later there where more than 500 stations in the nation.
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The stock market crash provided a dramatic end to an era of unprecedented and unprecedentedly lopsided, prosperity.
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Many Americans were fed up with Hoover and what Franklin Roosevelt later called his "hear nothing, see nothing, do nothing government" he promised a change to a New Deal for the American people.
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During this period Roosevelt presented a series of initiatives to Congress designed to counter the effects of the Great Depression.
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Roosevelt launched a second, more aggressive set of federal programs, the Works Progress Administration provided jobs for unemployed people and built new public works like bridges, post offices, schools and parks.
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The New Deal had come to an end. Growing Congressional opposition made it difficult for president Roosevelt to introduce new programs.