Transcription: In 1924, Congress put the brakes on immigration, a restrictive bill that imposed the harshest quotas on people of color. Two states elected women governors. Flappers, Mary Pickford, 23 Skidoo, Rhapsody and Blue. In 1925, Henry Ford announced his Model T, hitherto available only in black, would be offered in green and maroon as well. And Florida offered 20 million lots, lots of them underwater. Leopold and Loeb, the cat's meow, Ku Klux Klan, the monkey trial. In 1926, the Ford Motor Company, in response to the widespread depression in the auto industry, introduced the eight-hour day, five-day w ...
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