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Volstead Act
Enforced the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol. -
Lenin & the Communist State/Red Scare
Vladimir Lenin & his followers(bolsheviks) created a new communist state. They waved their symbolic red flag and cried out for a revolution that would abolish capitilism everywhere. 70,000 radicals joined the communist party that was formed in the United States. -
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1919-1929 Timeline
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Palmer Raids
Palmer, Hoover, and their agents hunted down suspected communists, socialists, and anarchists. They raided their homes and offices. -
18th Amendment
Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. The beginning of Prohibition. -
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts. They were both sentenced to death and found guilty. -
19th Amendment ratified
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. It was ratified 72 years after women had first convened and demanded the vote at the Seneca falls convention in 1848. -
Teapot Dome Affair
Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Falls secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land. -
National Origins Act
The National Origins Act established immigration quitas that discriminated strongly against people from outside Western Europe. The Act also discriminated against Southern and Eastern Europeans and barred Asians completely. -
Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools/American Society, -
Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic.
Charles decided to travel across the Atlantic so he could win the prize of $25,000. It took him 33 hours and 29 minutes to complete the journey. He traveled 3,61 miles nonstop. -
1st Talking Movie, "The Jazz Singer", is released.
First major movie with sound. Premiered at the Tower Theater in Los Angeles, California on October 6th, 1927. -
Herbert Hoover elected President
Mining engineer from Iowa. Never ran for office before. Told Americans, "We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty that ever before." which caused a lot of Americans to vote for him during the election. -
Stock Market Crash
Stock prices peaked and then fell. It only got worse after that. Helped lead into the Great Depression.
