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The Social Security Act was a law that provided pension for retired people over the age of 65. There were other welfare benefits that came along with it though.

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The National Recovery Act was a US labor law that encouraged economic recovery following he Great Depression by introducing new beneficial policies.

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The Agricultural Adjustment Act was a a law that aimed to reduce the amount of agricultural surplus and raise crop prices to limit farmers' production.

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Hoovervilles were makeshift shantytowns that emerged during the Great Depression, named after President Herbert Hoover, where homeless people lived in rudimentary shelters made from scrap materials.

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The Lost Generation refers to the disillusioned and disenchanted young adults who came of age during and after World War I, struggling with a sense of aimlessness and alienation in a rapidly changing postwar society.

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Prohibition, which lasted from 1920 to 1933 in the United States, was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.

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The Jazz Age, spanning the 1920s, was a period of cultural revolution characterized by the rise of jazz music, flapper culture, and a general atmosphere of exuberance and modernity, reflecting the social and economic changes of the post-World War I era.

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Al Capone, also known as "Scarface," was a notorious American gangster of the 1920s and early 1930s, known for his involvement in organized crime, bootlegging during Prohibition, and his eventual conviction for tax evasion.

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Black Tuesday refers to October 29, 1929, when the stock market crashed, resulting in a massive sell-off of shares and marking the beginning of the Great Depression.

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