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The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized sound, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and the decline of the silent film era.

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The Jazz Singer | "Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet" Scene | Warner Bros. Entertainment

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The first commercial radio broadcast, the Harding Cox Election results, voiced by Leo Rosenberg, radio’s first announcer. Between 1923 and 1930, a whopping sixty percent of American families purchased radios and a custom where families gathered around a glowing box for night-time entertainment took root, forever changing American culture.

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Charles Lindbergh was a famous aviator. In 1927 he became the first solo man to successfully fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean (from NY to Paris). He called his airplane the Spirit of St. Louis, and his courageous feat helped make Missouri a leader in the developing world of aviation.

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On the morning of May 20th, 1927, despite bad weather conditions, Charles Lindbergh set off from New York to Paris in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

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When Henry Ford's invention started to take off, and the demand for his product was more than he could handle, he came up with the assembly line for mass production. This allowed him to build a car in 2 hours, instead of 12. Some wealthy people considered Ford a "traitor" because he payed his employees enough so that they could afford to buy the cars that they were making. This is prominently used to explain the origin of the middle class in the US.

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"A man who builds a factory, builds a temple." By this, Coolidge meant that employers need employees, and vice versa. Therefore, he was all for the building of factories. I think in the 1920's, the government greatly supported businesses and the idea of industrialization.

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Al Capone quit school when he was 14, and instead obtained his education by working for gangster, Johnny Torrio. In the beginning of Prohibition, Capone moved from NY to Chicago to help Torrio with bootlegging. Torrio's boss, Big Jim, was not for bootlegging, and it's believe that either Capone or Torrio assassinated him. Capone became Torrio's right hand man, and when Torrio retired, Capone took over. He dealt with his rivals with brutal violence.

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Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages. People began running illegal operations, and easily bribing police officers. In the end, Prohibition failed because it gave rise to tremendous amounts of organized crime.

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“Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!”  -  Agatha Christie
I believe that this captures the essence of the 1920 because, different from the Flappers, it shows the difference in opinion during the 1920's. Everyone was living their own lifestyle.

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A substitute teacher, John T. Scopes, reads out of a textbook that explains evolution, the state of Tennessee then charges Scopes with violating the Butler Act, an act that forbids the teaching of evolution in state sponsored schools. So, essentially, the Scopes Trial was about the conflict of science and religion. The defense lawyer was Clarence Darrow, who faces off against William Jennings Bryan.

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The Scopes Monkey Trial Explained in 5 Minutes: US History Review

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A super fast overview of this historic trial in 1925 that began to redefine how we teach science in our public school system

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A law that restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and practically excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States. The government then only allowed 2 percent of that population into the nation. The National Origins Act drastically lowered the annual quota of immigration, from 358,000 to 164,000.

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In the 1920's, the Ku Klux Klan resurfaced thanks to the film Birth of a Nation, and this time their targets included African Americans, the 'New Immigrants', Jews, Catholics and any other groups who represented "un-American" values or beliefs such as organized labor.

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On Apr. 15, 1920, a paymaster for a shoe company in South Braintree, Mass., and his guard were shot and killed by two men who escaped with over $15,000. It was thought from reports of witnesses that the murderers were Italians.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with the crime. Their trial aroused intense controversy because it was widely believed that the evidence against the men was flimsy, and that they were being prosecuted for their immigrant background and their radical political beliefs.

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The Palmer Raids were a series raids and arrests led by Attorney General, Mitchell Palmer, aimed at freeing the country from radical leftist, especially anarchists after the Boston Police Strike.

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The Palmer Raids Explained: US History Review

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Dive deep into the Red Scare to explore the 1919/1920 Palmer Raids where we take a look at the conditions which led up them, the actual raids themselves and the effects on the nation. Perfect for students seeking a way out, life long learners and the cray cray on the internets.

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Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920's who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. It began with the first Flapper woman Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.  Flappers are like today's feminists, they did what society didn't expect from women. They danced to Jazz Age music, kirts became shorter to make dancing easier. they smoked, they wore makeup, , and they lived for the moment.

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Babe Ruth was a Baseball player for the New York Yankees. He was widely known for setting records such as getting 714 home runs in 22 seasons. The 1920's was known as the Golden Age of American Sports. Sports played a great role for men; women however weren't presented with the same opportunities because educators thought that running, jumping, and sweating were not very ladylike and opposed athletic competitions for girls.

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Boston police officers went on strike because they sought recognition for their trade union and improvements in wages and working conditions. In the ends, the striking policemen were not allowed to recover their jobs, which went to returning servicemen. The new officers were granted higher pay and additional holidays, and gained the additional benefit of free uniforms.
-The Steel Mill Strike
-The Coal Miner's Strike

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The political cartoon was published by Charles Henry “Bill” Sykes. It represents America in a time when the Republican Party was in control of the economy. It's titled "Prosperity! Blah!!" because Democrats weren't included in the prosperity leading to them believing it wouldn't work.

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Americanism, also known as Nativism is the political policy of protecting the rights and interests of native inhabitants over immigrant's.
Examples:
1) Resurgence of the KKK and its growth in the North
2) Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti case which contained "flimsy" evidence; believed to have been prosecuted for their immigrant background and their radical political beliefs
2) Eugenics movement which decided what the "ideal" person should look like

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Presidential candidate of 1929, he promised prosperity. The first president who attempted to solve the economic depression by restoring public faith in humanity.

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H- High Tariffs
A- Anti Union
L- Laisserz Faire
T-Tricle Down Policies

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Warren Harding followed a large pro-business, conservative Republican agenda. He wanted  an end to strikes and race riots, broad-scale prosperity, and peace abroad. Also he limited Immigration into America.

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Warren Harding's "Return to Normalcy" was a nickname for his campaign for the 1920 presidential election, he promised to bring America back to normalcy. He wanted America to put the horrors of the war behind them and get back to normal. He stated, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality."

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The Lost Generation was a group of  writers and poets who were men and women that came of age during World War I

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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York. During the time this cultural movement was known as "The New Negro Movement". Three great contributers to the Harlem Renaissance were Lois Mailou Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, and Jacob Lawrence.

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Jazz music originated in New Orleans, it created social change and broke down social inequalities and racism. A few of the leading musicians in the roaring 20's are King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Kid Ory.

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Louis Armstrong - When The Saints Go Marching In

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The Nationals Women's party raised public awareness for the women's suffrage campaign. Their main priority was the passage of the 19th amendment, which would secure women citizens the right to vote. However, their overall goal was
Full equality regardless of sex under the law.

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The sexual revolution was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the western world. It increased acceptance of sex outside of traditional heterosexuality. The normalization of the pill, public nudity, pornography, premarital sex, homosexuality, and the legalization of abortion all followed.