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American History · The Jazz Age

The Roaring Twenties

America in the 1920s. Prohibition and the speakeasy, women’s suffrage and the flapper, immigration quotas and the Klan, scandal in Washington and Lindbergh over the Atlantic — the decade of boom and excess that ended in the Crash, year by year.

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