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Ford Model T
Henry Ford developed the mass-produced automobile, which sold at an affordable price. It pioneered the use of the assembly line -
"Return to Normalcy"
After World War I 1919-20s, when Harding was President, the US and Britain returned to isolationism. The US economy "boomed" but Europe continued to struggle. -
Harlem Renaissance
A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished such as the poetry produced by Langston Hughes -
Red Scare
Caused hysteria and Intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas in America -
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Roaring Twenties
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Harding Administration secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land. Public angry because of corruption in government -
Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
Stalin was a Georgian secretary general of the communist party of the Soviet Union and premier of the Soviet State, who for a quarter of a century dictatorially ruled the Soviet Union and transformed it into a major world power -
Scopes Trial
Otherwise known as the “Monkey Trial”1925, the trial pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism in schools -
Charles Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic Flight
Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He was just 25 years old when he completed the trip. -
St.Valentine's Day Massacre
Seven men were lined up against the wall in a North Side garage and gunned down execution-style. Five known members of George 'Bugs' Moran's gang, one associate and a garage worker were killed. -
Stock Market crashes "Black Tuesday"
Black Tuesday was the fourth and last day of the stock market crash of 1929. It took place on October 29, 1929. ... On November 13, 1929, they hit their bottom for the year. By then, more than $100 billion had disappeared from the American economy
