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| A meeting of major powers that took place between 1921 and 1922 which resulted in an agreement to set limits on the size of each nation's navy |
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| This Harlem Renaissance poet and short story writer expressed the despair of blacks and demanded social justice. |
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| This 1924 law attempted to facilitate German reparations payments. By loaning $200 million in gold bullion to Germany, the U. S. and its Allies hoped to stabilize the Germany economy |
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| This 1925 case involved a Tennessee law against the teach of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools |
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| This political scandal involved a cabinet member in President Harding's administration |
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| A steady downward trend in the prices of corporate stocks |
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| This implemented prohibition and defined an illegal beverage as any one over 1% alcohol by volume |
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| Young women of the 1920s who adopted an original style of dress and challenged traditional societal values |
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| This 1928 treaty, signed by 63 nations (including the U. S.), was an agreement never to use war as a means of international conflict resolution |
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| These slums were inhabited by homeless families during the Depression |
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| A steady upward trend in the prices of corporate stocks |
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| The name given to a group of American writers who gathered in Paris after World War I and who wrote about rebellious people, criticized society, and attacked materialism |
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| This 1927 movie was was the first "talkie" motion picture, ending the era of silent films |
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| Isolationism and Protectionism |
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| The Republicans returned to power with the election of Warren G. Harding in 1920. The new president's call for a "return to normalcy" turned out to mean? |
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| The Coolidge Administration |
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| worked to help wealthy Americans through tax cuts and other pro-business activities |
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| The Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
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| offered emergency loans to banks, farm mortgage associations, building and loan societies, and other such businesses to prevent bankruptcies |
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