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Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. His innovation reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to two hours and 30 minutes.
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dedicated to racial pride, economic self-sufficiency, and the formation of an independent black nation in Africa.
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When prohibition began to become a national issue, two parties emerged. The Wets were people who opposed Prohibition. They didn't support it because they wanted alcohol. Drys were people who supported the ban of alcohol. They supported it because they thought it was a win in moral and health issues.
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The Seattle General Strike of 1919 was a five-day general work stoppage by more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle,
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On October 2, 1919, at the White House in Washington, D.C., United States President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke that leaves him partially paralyzed on his left side and effectively ends his presidential career.
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President Woodrow Wilson presented what he called the “Fourteen Points, later became the League of Nations and consisted of the major power members
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The Volstead Act prohibited the sale, manufacture, or transfer of any alcoholic beverages. Led to many rebellious citizens flocking to the underground alcohol economy.
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A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages.
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The ratification of the 18th Amendment was completed on January 16th, 1919 and would take effect on January 17th, 1920. It is important to note that the 18th Amendment did not prohibit the consumption of alcohol, but rather simply the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
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"Urban" was defined as including all territory, persons, and housing units within an incorporated area that met the population threshold. The 1920 census marked the first time in which over 50 percent of the U.S. population was defined as urban.
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If freedom was the mindset of the Roaring Twenties, then jazz was the soundtrack. The Jazz Age was a cultural period and movement that took place in America during the 1920s from which both new styles of music and dance emerged.
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the Harlem Renaissance was very significant because it marked a moment when white America started recognizing the intellectual contributions of Blacks
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Following the first world war, life moved fast as a new sense of prosperity and freedom emerged
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the Klu Klux Klan was revitalized in 1920, the result in part of new Klan leadership with an eye for publicity. President Johnson turned J. Edgar Hoover loose on the KKK, and the FBI would achieve the greatest law enforcement victory in its history, all but eradicating the terrorist organization.
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New scientific discoveries and theories flourished causing doubt on the biblical version of events. Educational institutions promoted scientific learning based on facts
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The ultimate indictment of the modern world's loss of personal, moral, and spiritual values
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Anti-lynching bill passes United States House, fails in the United States Senate
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The Mellon Plan was economic legislation passed by Congress in 1924 reducing taxes on the wealthy and businesses, advocating high tariffs and cuts in government spending and corporate taxes.
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Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census.
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The U.S Border Patrol is established to crack down on illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican and Canadian borders into the United States.
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A hopeful look at the negro in America
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The American dream that anyone can achieve anything
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A communist-based organization, is developed to recruit and help African-Americans fight racism and discrimination.
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highlighted the tension between literal interpretations of creation accounts in the Bible and evolutionary theory in the 20th century.
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In February a week was dedicated to celebrate the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, later becomes a whole month
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A look at 30 years in the life of a modern woman
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Congress passed this Act before Black Tuesday, designed to help farmers help themselves and included Hoover's progressive tendencies
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The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939.
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Details the moral decay of the Old South
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African American Women were often "last hired,first fired" at any job during the Great Depression
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The stock market crash of 1929 was a four-day collapse of stock prices that began on October 24, 1929. The 1929 stock market crash lost the equivalent of $396 billion today.
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The beginning of the Crash was called Black Tuesday, This was when a large amount of investors pulled their money out to collect it since they were nervous
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Hoover raised the top rate to 63 percent to reduce the deficit. His commitment to a balanced budget worsened the depression
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The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, under the administration of Herbert Hoover, established the Federal Farm Board from the Federal Farm Loan Board established by the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 with a revolving fund of half a billion dollars.
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Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow.
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The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act allots $200 million for refinancing mortgages to help farmers facing foreclosure. The Farm Credit Act of 1933 establishes a local bank and sets up local credit associations
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Insures deposits of up to 250,000. Created by the 1933 Banking act to restore trust in the American Banking System
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provide jobs for unemployed people. WPA projects weren't allowed to compete with private industry, so they focused on building things like post offices, bridges, schools, highways and parks.
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Crop insurance is purchased by agricultural producers, and subsidized by the federal government, to protect against either the loss of their crops due to natural disasters, such as hail, drought, and floods, or the loss of revenue due to declines in the prices of agricultural commodities.
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The NIRA was declared unconstitutional in May 1935 when the Supreme Court issued its unanimous decision in the case Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States. The court ruled that the NIRA assigned lawmaking powers to the NRA in violation of the Constitution's allocation of such powers to Congress.
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A large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in response to the Great Depression.
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The new agency was asked to tackle important problems facing the valley, such as flooding, providing electricity to homes and businesses, and replanting forests.
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was a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States to rapidly create manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers
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the Glass-Steagall Act separated commercial banking and investment banking.
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The corporation was established in 1933 by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation Act under the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its purpose was to refinance home mortgages currently in default to prevent foreclosure.
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The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men.
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The Federal Housing Administration, generally known as "FHA", provides mortgage insurance on loans made by FHA-approved lenders throughout the United States and its territories. FHA insures mortgages on single family and multifamily homes including manufactured homes and hospitals.
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Together with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which created the SEC, the legislation was designed to help investors feel more comfortable about putting their money back into the stock market.
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An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits
