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    National Hockey League got started in 1920‚ which is still around today. The game has changed slightly since its beginning but it is not a whole different game. Baseball hasn’t changed much and it doesn’t have to because it is just as exciting as it was when it became popular in the ’20’s and ’30’s. For the Olympics every 2 years the same magic is there today as there has always been. The game of hockey became a professional sport way back in 1890. But in 1920 was when the National Hockey League came

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    prostitution‚ and murders. There were many gangs in the world of organized crime and Al Capone’s was at the top. Al Capone was the most infamous gangster in the 1920s. Being a highly know and revered gangster was a big business. Money was made fast and very easily. Bootlegging alcohol was by far the most profitable in the 1920s; this was because of the prohibition of alcohol. Gambling was another business that paid off; stations sanctioned for gambling were set up all over cities. Prostitution

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    During the 1920s machines were more equipped to mass produce‚ and consumers were more ready to have an increase in their spending.This led to many citizens over buying stocks with promise of great fortune in return. Common families would often buy products promised

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    The 19th amendment - The 19th amendment was passed on August 18‚ 1920. This amendment gave women the right to vote‚ it made women equal to men in the political eyes. This happened after Tennessee legalized women’s rights as the 35th state. Since‚ it was the 35th state that passed this law making the two-thirds law kick in as majority rules. Women’s rights marches - This was marches that women suffragist did to spread the word about women’s oppressment. The biggest march was in 1913 started by

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    Prohibition In The 1920s The 1920s were a time of great change in the United States. Changes‚ however‚ provoked resistance to change and longing for the “good old days.” On January 16‚ 1920‚ a major change took place in the United States. This was the beginning of the “Noble Experiment”‚ or what is better known in this country as Prohibition. The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed prohibiting all importing‚ exporting‚ transporting‚ selling‚ and manufacturing

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    The Roaring Twenties The 1920s were an age of change and innovation. New technologies like the radio and refrigerators changed the way Americans lived. It saw dramatic social changes that would pit the past against the future. It would shape our nation decades to come. The Great War had ended‚ leaving Europe in ruins but America had been spared physically from the damage the war had caused allowing America’s economy to boom like never-before. Between 1923 and 1929 the average income rose 11 percent

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    In Germany around the 1920s‚ a psychiatrist by the name Hans Berger‚ Created a tool that would help researchers study and measure the rhythmic electrical activity in the brain. This tool would pick up the brain waves and create an EEG or electroencephalogram. This device has played an important role in the studying of our sleeping patterns. There are two different brain waves that occur when entering sleep. There is the beta brain waves that generate fast while preparing for you slumber and then

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    Born in Manassa‚ Colorado on June 24‚ 1895‚ Jack Dempsey rose to boxing stardom in the 1920s. Dempsey started his boxing career at Young Peter Jackson’s Gym in Salt Lake City at the age of 16. He began his professional career in 1914‚ fighting in small mining towns in Colorado under the name "Kid Blackie". Dempsey emerged from numerous small saloon-floor boxing matches to victory in over 80 professional fights by the age of 24. Dempsey was a hard-nosed‚ fearless boxer‚ perhaps best known for

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    farmers‚ minorities and labor‚ were the 1920s the “Golden Twenties” as often portrayed? BY: ROBERT TANNER U.S. History 101.5 Jim Blackwood 11/25/2009 Bibliography Allen‚ Frederick L. Only Yesterday: An informal history of the 1920s. New York: Harper and Brothers‚ 1931. Drowne‚ Kathleen‚ and Huber‚ Patrick. The 1920s. Connecticut: Greenwood Press‚ 2004. Irving L. Bernstein. The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker 1920-1933. Boston: Houghton Mifflin

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    During the 1920s in the United States‚ the time period more commonly known as the “Roaring 20s”. It is regarded as an energetic era of prosperity where pop culture was developing‚ Hemlines got shorter and nights grew longer with the opening of speakeasy to join in the defiance of prohibition. During an age of dramatic social change‚ pop culture during the 1920s was characterized by the flapper‚ automobiles‚ speakeasies‚ and jazz. The twenties was the introduction of large scale use of electricity

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