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Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist hate group The Klan has existed in three distinct eras at different points in time during the history of the United States. -
Espinage act
Prohibited interference with the draft and other acts of national "disloyalty," with the Sedition Act of 1918 added penalties for abusing the government in writing, created a climate that was unfriendly to civil liberties. -
Eighteenth amendment
prohibition
Volstead act-Bill passed by Congress to enforce the language of the 18th Amendment; made the manufacture and distribution of alcohol illegal within the borders of the United States. -
Nineteenth amendment
1920, constitutional amendment that finally passed in 1919 and ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote over 70 years after the first organized calls for the women's suffrage in Seneca Falls, New York
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Immigration act of 1924
"Johnson-Reed Act"; limited the number of immigrants that could be admitted from any country to 2% of the amount of people from that country who were already living in the U.S. as of the 1890 census; completely restricted all Japanese immigrants -
Harlem renaissances
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, the 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke.
