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1920's Timeline
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18th Amendment
This amendment was followed by the Volstead act which prohibited alcohol. This amendment helped to start Prohibition of the United States. -
Volstead Act
Following this act was the 18th amendment. It established prohibition in the United States. -
Palmer Raids
These raids were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radicals, especially anarchists, from the United States. More than 500 foreign citizens were deported. -
Teapot Dome Affair
This scandal was a simple act of bribery. A former senator, a friend of Warren G. Harding's, and a secretary were all accused of accepting bribes from oil executives. The scandal got its name because these people recieved their bribes in order for the oil executives to obtain leases to drill for oil at Teapot Dome, Wyoming. -
19th Amendment
This amendment allowed women the right to vote. It doubled the voting population. -
Red Scare
The red scare followed world war one and some anarchists bombings. It was Americas fear of communists, socialists, and anarchists. Innocent people were jailed for expressing their views, civil liberties were ignored, and many Americans feared that a Bolshevik-style revolution was at hand. -
National Origins Act
Passed in 1924, this law placed a limit on immigration. Americans were becoming outraged at the amount of jobs they were losing to immigrants and there was also a wide-spread panic of potential spies amongst the immigrants. -
Scopes Trial
A high school biology teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating the state's Butler Act that made it unlawful to teach evolution. Scopes was found guilty but released on a technicality. -
Sacco and Vanzetti Sentenced to Death
Two young Italian immigrants were tried and prosecuted for the killing of two men in a payroll robbery. The men were executed even though the evidence proved that they couldn't have done it. -
Lindbergh Crosses the Atlantic
Charles Lindbergh was a 25-year old U.S. air mail pilot. He was the first person to fly across the Atlantic ocean. He did this successfully and alone. -
The Jazz Singer
This was the first movie released with dialouge that you could hear. It was produced by Warner Brothers. -
Herbert Hoover
Hoover was the 31st president of the United States. Hoover easily won the Republican nomination. He promoted government intervention. -
Stock Market Crash
Starting a couple months ahead of time the stock market started to decend at a rapidly growing rate until it finally hit rock bottom. The crash began a twelve year slump that affected all the Western industrialized countries and that did not end in the United States until the onset of American mobilization for World War II at the end of 1941.