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The Americas to 1620
Colonization & Settlement, 1585-1763
The American Revolution, 1763-1783
The New Nation, 1783-1815
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Events
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
Al Capone convicted
Calvin Coolidge elected president
Eighteenth Amendment
Emergency Quota Act
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Harding died; Coolidge became president
Harlem Renaissance begins
Herbert Hoover elected president
Hoover Dam authorized
Indian Citizenship Act
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight
Mexicans and Mexican Americans “repatriated”
National Origins Act of 1924
Nine-Power Pact
Nineteenth Amendment
Palmer raids
Railway Labor Act
Red Scare
Sacco and Vanzetti convicted
Scopes trial
Start of Great Migration
Start of Prohibition
The Great Gatsby
The Sun Also Rises
The Waste Land
Wall Street Crash of 1929
Warren G. Harding elected president
Washington Naval Conference
People
Al Capone
Calvin Coolidge
Charles Lindbergh
Clarence Darrow
Gertrude Stein
Henry Ford
Herbert Hoover
Marcus Garvey
Sacco and Vanzetti
Vladimir Lenin
Warren G. Harding
Willa Cather
Woodrow Wilson
Zora Neale Hurston
Places
Harlem
Hoover Dam
speakeasy
Organizations
American Indian Defense Association
Bolsheviks
Communist Party of the United States
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