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September 10 – September 15: The Florida Keys Hurricane kills 600 in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and Texas. September 22 – The Steel strike of 1919 begins across the United States. September 28 – Omaha Riot: A lynch mob besieges the police station and courthouse in Omaha, Nebraska, and lynches alleged rapist Will Brown.
World War I was over, and most Americans were eager for peace and security, but 1919 would prove to be anything but. Revolution and unrest ran rampant across Europe and North America; the Flu Pandemic continued from the prior year with a third brutal wave in the Spring; terrorist bombings rocked seven U.S. cities in June, the first of a series of “Red Scares” began when the government ...
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USA 1919. The USA in 1919 was a nation in transition. It faced economic, social and racial changes as it made the change from the politics of World War One to the ‘normalcy’ of the 1920s. World War One had left Americans with a sense of disillusionment. Young people questioned the heroic ideals that had sent them into the trenches.
In 1919, Dwight Eisenhower set off to examine the state of America’s roads — and showed that cars were the future. By Brian C. Black Was the Treaty of Versailles a Victory for Democracy?
Nov 25, 2019 · The Great Migration of African Americans out of the agrarian South and into the industrial North began in 1919. World War I veterans returned home to communities—including Omaha, Charleston, Chicago—that would be shook by race riots. The artistic and cultural explosion that would become known as the Harlem Renaissance began that year.
Apr 14, 2010 · The Roaring Twenties was a period in American history of dramatic social, economic and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation’s total ...
May 15, 2019 · In this January 15, 1919, file photo, the ruins of tanks containing 2.5 million gallons of molasses lie in a heap after an eruption that hurled trucks against buildings and crumpled houses in the ...
