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The Red Scare of 1919-1920 was a massive " Witch Hunt" of anyone assciated with the communist or radical party.
During this times Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer established a division in the Justice Depatment to hunt for radical |
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Mexican rebel who reaide towns in New Mexico and Texas in 1916, killing and wounding numerous americans. |
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One of the most influencial fiction author of the 1920's Hemingway spoke about the pain and disillusion that men had suffered during the fighting in WWI. Books like In the Sun Also Rises (1920) and A Farewell to Arms (1929) spoke about this subject as well as the anguish of the american young who had lost faith in the moral customs of their parent. |
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it was a period in a merican history where the use and sale of alcohol was prohibited |
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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 marked the begining of Americas worse economic depression |
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