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18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment of the Constitution prohibited the sale of alcohol in America.The United States was then "dry" from coast to coast.The advocates of Prohibition had waged a 50-year campaign to ban alcohol and had high hopes for it to be gone. people hoped that alcohol's banishment would lead to the eradication of poverty. -
Palmer Raids
The Palmer Raids were attempts to arrest and deport left-wing radicals, especially anarchists, from the United States. Under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, many raids took place. The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the Red Scare. -
Lenin and the Communist State/Red Scare
The Red Scared occured after athe Czarist was overthrown in Russi. And a communist party was formed. The government bombed cities in the U.S, harming its people. -
Volsted Act
The Volsted Act is the National Prohibitaion Act. Just like the 18th amendment; alcohol can not be manufactured, sold, or transported. -
Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
Sacco and Vanzetti were thought to be murders. These immigrants were found guilty. They were then executed and many were upset about it. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment granted voting rights for women. many generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve the right to vote. -
Teapot Dome Affair
The teapot Dome affair was a scandal by the government involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921. It became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration. -
National Origins Act
The National Origins Act was a federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the U.S. It was a part of The Immigration Act of 1924. -
Scopes Trial
A high-school teacher was charged with teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Evolution violated a state law prohibiting the teaching of anything that denied the divine creation of humans. -
Charles Lindbergh Crosses the Atlantic
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was the first ever to cross the Atlantic on an airplane. When aviation was just starting off many people didn't believe in it but Charles made them. -
1st Talking Movie, "The Jazz Singer" is released
It was the first talking movie to be invented. The Jazz Singer was a musical. It was based on Samson Raphaelson's 1921 short story "The Day of Atonement". -
Herbet Hoover elected President
Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. He was a professional mining engineer and author. He promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic modernization". -
Stock Market Crash
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was also known as the Great Crash. It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States of America. It eventually led into America's Great Depression.