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Germany and the Allies sign an armistice ,end the fighting in World War I.
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Leader of the progressive wing of the Republican Party Roosevelt died in 1919, which allowed the return of the old guards
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We start to see A rise of 64 percent in manufaturing output
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President Harding was elected after the death of Roosevelt his postwar presidency was filled was scandles and corruption .
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Highscools and college youth expressed their rebellion against their elders culture by dancing to jazz music
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Congress passed the 18th amendment to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages many defied the law because of this
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The Senate refuses to ratify the Versailles Treaty or authorize United States participation in the League of Nations.
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Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, convenes the first International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in New York's Madison Square Garden.
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Initiated talks on naval Disarmanet hoping to stabilize the size of the us navy .
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Passed by congress in 1922 the ford ney mc chamber tariff increased the duties on foreign manufactured goods by 25 percent
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Germany, burdened by reparations payments imposed by Treaty of Versailles, suffers hyperinflation. One American dollar is now worth 7,000 German marks.
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President Warren G. Harding dies of stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascends to presidency.
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Coolidge wins elections as a republican beat his opponent john W.davis
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The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billion.
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With all possible avenues of appeal now exhausted, Italian immigrant radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed by electric chair.
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40,000 Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue.
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The introduction to beloved character Mickey Mouse
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Herbert Hoover, running on a slogan of "A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage," is elected to the presidency, crushing Catholic Democrat Al Smith to maintain Republican dominance of the Oval Office.
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By 1929 a total of 26.5 million automobiles were registered replacing the railroad as for transportation
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The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaks in September 1929 at 381.17—a level that it won't reach again until 1954. The Dow will bottom out at a Depression-era low of just 41.22 in 1932.
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20 percent of African Americans lived in the north as migration from the south continued although they still faced discrimination