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Chapter 24: The New Era |
1903 The Great Train Robbery: First feature-length film released
1909 Sigmund Freud: psychoanalyst makes first trip to U.S.
1914 Moving assembly line: Henry Ford’s technique
1915 Ku Klux Klan: Modern Klan founded in Georgia
1916 Marcus Garvey: Jamaican black nationalist brings Universal Negro Improvement Association to America
1920 Eighteenth Amendment adopted: ban on alcohol
First commercial radio broadcast
Nineteenth Amendment adopted: women can vote
Sacco and Vanzetti arrested: Italian immigrants charged with robbery and murder
1921 National Origins Act: sets quotas on European immigration
Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act: to fight high rates of infant and maternal mortality
American Birth Control League founded
1922 Fordney-McCumber Tariff: raises rates
Babbitt: Sinclair Lewis’ attack on small-town business
The Wasteland: T.S. Eliot’s poem published
1923 Time Magazine: first weekly news magazine founded
Harding dies: Calvin Coolidge becomes president
Harding scandals
1925 Scopes trial: John T. Scopes convicted of teaching evolution
The New Negro: works of young black artists and writers
1927 Charles Lindbergh’s flight: crosses Atlantic alone by plane
Sacco and Vanzetti executed
The Jazz Singer: first talking film released
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