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18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, along with the Volstead Act, which defined "intoxicating liquors" excluding those used for religious purposes and sales throughout the U.S., established Prohibition in the United States. This started a large underground business. Between gangs selling alcohol and bars open it started a historical event. -
Lenin and the Communist State/ Red Scare
The term Red Scare denotes two distinct periods of strong Anti-Communism in the United States: the First Red Scare, from 1919 to 1920. The government was intentially bombing cities in the U.S, harming their own people. -
Palmer Raids
Was alson known as the Red Scare.The Palmer Raids were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport left-wing radicals, especially anarchists, from the United States.Though more than 500 foreign citizens were deported, including a number of prominent leftist leaders, Palmer's efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the US Department of Labor who had responsibility for deportations and who objected to Palmer's methods and disrespect for the legal process. -
Volstead Act
The Volstead Act, formally the National Prohibition Act, was the enabling legislation for the Eighteenth Amendment which established prohibition in the United States. This was the same thing as the 18 amenmend and made alcohol illegal in the U.S. -
19th Amendment Ratified
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's sex. This gave women the right to vote. This made a large change. The voting population basiclly doubled and people had more of a say. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was an unprecedented bribery scandal and investigation during the White House administration of United States President Warren G. Harding.Teapot Dome is an oil field on public land in the U.S. state of Wyoming.In 1921, by executive order of President Harding, control of U.S. Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and at Elk Hills and Buena Vista in California, were transferred from the U.S. Navy Department to the Department of the Interior. -
National Origins Act
Was a United States 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 United States in 1890. Part of The Immigration Act of 1924. -
Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial formally known as The State of Tennessee v. Scopes and informally known as the Scopes Monkey Trial—was an American legal case in 1925 in which a high school biology teacher John Scopes was accused of violating the state's Butler Act that made it unlawful to teach evolution. He was found guilty , but they later found a fault in the trial. He was never brought back to jury. -
Charles Lindbergh Crosses the Atlantic
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 1902, but spent most of his childhood in Little Falls, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C. Was the first ever to cross the Atlantic on a a plane. When aviation was just starting off many people didn't believe in it ,but he changed all ideas. -
Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the two Italian immigrants were executed on August 23, 1927. This trial was questioned for how fair and just it was. -
The Jazz Singer
The first talking movie of the time. A 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. -
Herbert Hoover Elected President
Herbert Clark Hoove was the 31st President of the United States. Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. Term lasted 1929-1933. Won the Republican nomination. -
Stock Market Crash
It was also known as The Great Crash, and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States of America. This stock market crash sent the roaring twenties into a haulting stop. This eventually led to The Great Depression which was the worst economic downpoint of the U.S.
