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an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production.
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various theories and societal practices that purported to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics.
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an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist
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the social generational cohort that was in early adulthood during World War I.
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a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City which dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City.
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a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923.
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granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S.
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a United States federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere.
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deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to Mexico from the United States during the Great Depression
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a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s
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a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25
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a federally-owned electric utility corporation in the United States.
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an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
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an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Roosevelt in 1935
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an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits.