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Anti-Immigration in the United States started even before the 1900’s. Nativists and special interest groups pressured the federal government to “exclude unwelcome immigrants". Many of the immigrants that these groups wanted to keep out of the United

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When the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, now called Black Tuesday, billions of dollars were lost and many people that were rich “on paper” lost a lot of money because that day. It effected the Europe tourism because didn’t have the money to

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Assigned Blog #3 Al Capone

                         In the 1920’s was the time of Prohibition. A time when gangsters emerged and created businesses selling illegal alcohol.  They also set up places to gamble, and speakeasies, bars selling their illegal alcohol. Gangsters made

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         The car industry was very good in the 1920's. Many soldiers brought cars home from WWI and everybody started to figure out that having a car makes transportation so much easier. Ford was the big car maker. Model T’s were very big back than t

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Blog 12-1-13

On September 11th at around 8:46 terrorists took over planes American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 was crashed into the other side of the world trade center within a half hour later and the terrorists crashed them into the World

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Osama bin Laden was born on March 10, 1957, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His full name was Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. Bin Laden attended primary, secondary, and his college education in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His father was Mohammed Awad bin L

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Warren G. Harding Accomplishments/Scandals

Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States. In his campaign he promised America a return to normalcy. He didn’t agree with the former president Woodrow Wilson on joining the League of Natio

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John Calvin Coolidge Jr.  was and is the only president born on the fourth of July. He had one younger sister. Coolidge’s mother died when he was twelve years and old, and his sister died several years later. He attended Amherst College in Massachuse

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Everybody has heard of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, but do you know what they actually did to people?
In Fall of 1929, many problems in the stock market began coming together, resulting in declining stock prices. On October

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Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937 in Tikrit, Iraq. His father disappeared before he was born. Then soon after he was born his older brother died of cancer. His mom decided that she could not raise him and at age three she sent h

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Harding Background and Election

Warren Gamaliel. Harding- (Nov. 2, 1865-Aug. 2, 1923) 29th U.S. president

Background: oldest of eight children. When he was 10 yrs. old his family moved and became the owners of the Argus(a local newspaper) Went to Ohio

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Assigned Blog #3- Gangs Due to Prohabition

The Prohibition and gangs go hand in hand because it gave the gangs something to traffic illegally. This worked out so well because Alcohol was illegal and that is what everyone wanted. The main gang during this time was Al Capone's Mafia.  He was re

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            There were many great inventions made in the 1920’s. Many of these were based off of the new found use of electricity, and many inventors prospered during this time. This era was also known as the Booming, or Roaring, twenties. The making

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Barack Obama's Highlights and Lowlights in Afghanistan

Because of different views, some of these topics may be viewed as either highlights or lowlights to different people.

In January of 2009, the first wave of a large increase of troops in Afghanistan

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