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19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

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21st Amendment

Made drinking alcohol legal.

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Teapot Dome Scandal

The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923.

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Ku Klux Klan

A white supremist organization that was anti-catholic, anti-jew, and anti-black

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Dust Bowl

made many farms go to waste due to the following years of drought over planting and wind storms were just a couple reasons this happened.

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American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1920 "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States"

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Calvin Coolidge

was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929.

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Herbert Hoover

He was the president when the stock market crashed.

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Henry Ford

Invented the assembly line production which made the vehicle affordable to the masses.

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Chicago Race Riot

The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a violent racial conflict between white Americans and black Americans that began on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, on July 27 and ended on August 3, 1919. During the riot, 38 people died.

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Capitalism

an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.

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Al Capone

was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co

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Red Scare

A widespread fear during 1919

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Amelia Earhart

Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and writer. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

tried to stop U.S from getting into another war

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

The Tariff Act of 1930, commonly known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States.

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Flappers

Young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and otherwise flaunted their disapproval of what was considered normal.

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Emergency Relief Banking Act

Closed banks and decided on financial health(stay open or closed)

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Glass-Stegall Act

effectively separated commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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Four Horsemen

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are figures in the Christian scriptures, first appearing in the Book of Revelation, a piece of apocalypse literature written by John of Patmos.

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Hoovervilles

a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.

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Works Progress Administration

helped people get employed during the Great Depression

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Fireside Chats

Franklin D. Roosevelt would come on the radio and speak to people during the great depression; it was called fireside chats because people would sit by the fire.

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Frances Perkins

FDR’s Secretary of Labor for 13 years.

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The major causes of the Great Depressions

the stock market crash of 1929; the collapse of world trade due to the Smoot

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The major fact that led to the massive migration of African-Americans

escape racial violence, pursue economic and educational opportunities, and obtain freedom from the oppression of Jim Crow

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Supreme Court’s views on FDR’s New Deal

Mixed opinions.

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FDR’s promise the three R’s

relief recovery and reform

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