1920s

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  1. 2. October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed. Lead to the Panic of 1929
  2. 4. The rounding up and deportation of several hurdled immigrants of radical political view by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. The scare was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the US after the Russian Revolution
  3. 5. The movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural southern US to the urban NE, MW, and W between 1910 and 1970
  4. 7. women in the 1920's who bobbed their hair, wore short skirts, and defied the morals and restrictions of the earlier generations
  5. 9. gave women the right to vote in 1920
  6. 11. The 31st President, in office when the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed
  7. 12. was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees from 1923 to 1939.
  8. 13. the 1920s are often reffered to by this name because jazz captured the free spirt of the era
  9. 15. a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
  10. 16. 1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools
  11. 18. was an American gangster and a bank robber in the Depression-era United States.
  12. 19. Congress set limits on immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Asia. Document that limited the number of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe
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  1. 1. bars that operated illegally during the time of Prohibition
  2. 2. was an American baseball outfielder and pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1914 to 1935.
  3. 3. A movie with a soundtrack
  4. 6. 29th president of the US; Republican; "Return to Normalcy" (life as it had been before WWI-peace, isolation); presidency was marred by scandal
  5. 8. Name given to 1920s because of dramatic changes in culture and prosperity
  6. 10. Bootlegging, or rum-running, the illegal transport of alcoholic beverages.
  7. 14. a system for paying for goods
  8. 17. Amendment 18 prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages