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Red Scare
Fears of Bolshevism permeated the United States and led to alarmist attitudes, deportations of immigrants, vigilante violence against suspected radicals, and the ousting of Socialists from government.
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Nineteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, granting suffrage to women.
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Warren G. Harding elected president
Republican Warren G. Harding, with Calvin Coolidge as his running mate, was elected president over the Democratic nominee, James M. Cox.
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Emergency Quota Act
The Emergency Quota Act ended most immigration from outside the Americas and created an ethnic quota system for admitting immigrants to the United States.
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Washington Naval Conference
During the Washington Naval Conference called by President Woodrow Wilson, several significant treaties and agreements were created and signed among the world's major powers. Major treaties of the conference included: Five-Power Treaty (between the US, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan), concerning naval disarmament; the Four-Power Treaty (between the US, France, Great Britain, and Japan), concerning conflict resolution in Asia; and the Nine-Power Treaty (between the US, Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands,...
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The Waste Land
Poet T.S. Eliot published The Waste Land, a sprawling, difficult, and influential 434-line Modernist poem.
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Nine-Power Pact
At the Washington Naval Conference, the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, China, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Belgium signed an agreement recognizing China’s sovereignty and maintaining the Open Door policy.
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff
The Fordney-McCumber Tariff instituted the highest ever rates on many imported products to protect domestic industrial production.
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Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
In Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, the Supreme Court invalidated a minimum-wage law for women and children.
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Harding died; Coolidge became president
Upon the sudden death of President Warren G. Harding, Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascended to the presidency.