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Siteseen: American Historama: Famous Flappers

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a summary and list of interesting facts about the famous flappers of the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Women in the 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview with detailed facts about the changing role of women in society. Provides lists of famous women of the 1920s.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Economic Boom 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a summary and list of interesting facts about the reasons for the economic boom and the causes of the economic bust of the 1920s.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Dawes Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview with interesting facts about the Dawes Plan, a war reparations payment plan for Germany following WWI.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Charles Lindbergh

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive summary with interesting facts about Charles Lindbergh and the first Transatlantic Solo Flight.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Immigration Act of 1924

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive summary with interesting facts about the Immigration Act of 1924 that used national origin quotas as a permanent basis for U.S. immigration policy.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Teapot Dome Scandal

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive summary with interesting facts and information on the Teapot Dome Scandal that involved national security, oil companies, and corruption.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Isolationism

For Students 9th - 10th
Facts, definitions, and the reasons for the resumption of Isolationism, the foreign policy adopted by Republican governments in the 1920s.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Ohio Gang

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive summary with interesting facts and information on the Ohio Gang, a group of close friends favored by President Harding were involved in bribery and corruption.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Calvin Coolidge

For Students 9th - 10th
Facts, accomplishments, and biography of the life of Calvin Coolidge and summaries of important events during his presidency.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Jazz Age

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information on the Jazz Age, a period in U.S. history associated with exuberance and the introduction of jazz music.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Mellon Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
The strategy behind the Mellon Plan, introduced by the Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, was to lower taxes to free up money that could be then be invested in business to create jobs and improve the economy ensuring financial...
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Al Capone Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information on Al "Scarface" Capone, the most famous of all the Prohibition Era gangsters.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Chicago Mafia

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information on the Chicago Mafia who were part of the organized crime wave led by Al Capone during the Prohibition Era.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Volstead Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive summary provides facts and information that relates how the Volstead Act, or National Prohibition Act, was enacted to enforce the 18th amendment on Prohibition.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: First Talking Movie

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information about the first talking motion picture, the movie studios, and movie stars.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Great Migration of Ww1

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information about the movement of African Americans from the southern farmlands to the northern cities.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Ww1 Armistice

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive summary provides facts and information that relates how the WWI Armistice (cessation of hostilities) ended the fighting on the Western Front in Europe.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Westward Expansion

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive overview of the expansion across the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the west from 1841-1850. Provides a summary, list of interesting facts and a timeline.
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Website
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Siteseen: American Historama: Federal Reserve Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a summary and detailed facts about the Federal Reserve Act that set up a regional Federal Reserve System to restore the confidence of Americans in banks.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: 1789 Judiciary Act

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Features a summary and interesting facts about the 1789 Judiciary Act that established the U.S. court system.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

For Students 9th - 10th
Interest facts about John Brown, the militant anti-slavery activist who tried to seize ammunition from an armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: Woodrow Wilson

For Students 9th - 10th
Facts, biography, and accomplishments of the life of Woodrow Wilson and summaries of important events during his presidency.
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Article
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Siteseen: American Historama: New Freedom

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a summary and interesting facts about Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom that attacked the Triple Wall of Privilege and passed social reforms.