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Immigrant Fiction: Exploring an American Identity
Strictly speaking, all American novels (with the exception of those written by Native Americans) are in one way or another immigrant fiction. But we usually think of immigrant fiction more...
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Palmer raids
After radicals sent dozens of bombs to prominent government officials and American business men, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer initiated an anti-Red campaign. Appointing J. Edgar Hoover to the Justice Department, Palmer ordered a series of raids on suspected radical individuals and organizations. The raids turned up little evidence of violent intentions, but hundreds of aliens were deported anyway as a result.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
The United States entered into the Kellog-Briand Pact with a number of other countries. The Pact was an agreement to promote peace and eliminate war as a “national policy” for settling international disputes. The Pact failed to provide for a means of enforcing the agreement, however, rendering it useless.
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway’s landmark first novel, The Sun Also Rises, was published.
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Indian Citizenship Act
Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act to grant citizenship to “all non citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States.”
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Railway Labor Act
The Railway Labor Act established the right of collective bargaining for railroad workers.
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Start of Prohibition
Prohibition began when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect.
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Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution forbidding the manufacture, sale, transportation, import, and export of “intoxicating liquors” was ratified, instituting Prohibition nationwide. The amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933.
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Start of Great Migration
The Great Migration, in which about half a million African Americans moved to the urban North from the rural South, began about 1905 and ended around 1930.
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Harlem Renaissance begins
The New York City neighborhood of Harlem became a major cultural center for African Americans. Black artists, musicians, and writers based in Harlem created a social and artistic community, producing major works and challenging barriers created by Jim Crow.