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Treaty of Versailles (End of WWI)
On January 18, 1918, the Patrice Peace Conference was healed. The Big Four debated for 6 months. The treaty became more harsh than Wilson wanted. Wilson had to give up many of his points to keep the League of Nations. The Treaty of Versailles was a punishment to Germany and was forced to repay the “Reparations”. All of the Central Powers had to surrender their nations and 9 new countries were created. -
Red Scare: anti communist hysteria
The Red Scare was a widespread of fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state that occurred in the 1920s. This scare occurred immediately after WWI which revolved around the American labor movement, anarchist revolution, and political radicalism. Many enraged people caused bombings and raids. It was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the US after the Russian Revolution. -
Boston Police Strike
The Boston Police Strike of 1919 was the result of police officers trying to unionize for better working conditions and higher wages. The police went on strike and the cities quickly experienced robberies and riots. -
Steel Workers Strike
The Steel Strike of 119 was an attempt by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin workers to organize the US steel industry in the wake of WWI. The steel industry ground to a half and the workers walked off the job. This strike was a major disruption to the industry. -
Volstead Act
The Volstead Act was a law enacted in 1919 to provide enforcement for the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. -
Palmer Raids
The Palmer Raids in November 1919 and January 1920 occurred during the First Red Scare to capture and arrest suspect immigrants. The United States Department of Justice to arrest the anarchists and leftists from the raids from the Red Scare. -
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth is most recognized for his many record breaking accomplishments and for being a role model for any sports fanatic in the 1920s. He played for the Boston Red Sox’s in 1919 and set a record for the most scoreless innings in the World Series. -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment was added to the United States Constitution that prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes,” is ratified in a number of states on January 16, 1919. It began one year after it was ratified. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion in the 1920s that took place in Harlem between the end of WWI and the middle of the 1930s. The Great Migration was a factor that contributed to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance. It was a movement that kindled a new black cultural identity. It brought Black experience clearly within the “corpus” of American cultural history. -
The Birth of Women’s Liberation tradition
The Women’s Liberation Movement in the United States during the 1920’s was a movement where women rebelled against their traditional les as daughters and mothers. Women wanted to be seen as individuals outside their family roles. Jazz provided that outlet for women. -
Revival of KKK
The KKK, Ku Klux Klan, was founded in 1866 by ex-Confederate soldiers and other Southerners opposed to the Reconstruction after the Civil War. Colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the Klan in 1915. The membership of this secret organization ranged from three million to eight million in the 1920s. It was a US hate organization that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of around six million African Americans from areas of the Southern states in the US to areas in the Northern states. This was caused by the poor and economic conditions of racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern States. -
Election of 1920
The Election of 1920 was the presidential election of Republican Warren G. Harding from Ohio against Democratic James M. Cox of Ohio. Harding won in a landslide, taking every state outside the South and dominating the popular vote. -
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 was established as the nations first numerical limits on the number of immigrants who could enter the United States. It was a law restricting immigrants into the United States. It was rooted in social movements, political fears, and economical reasons. -
National Origins Act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924 made the quotas stricter and permanent for limits specifically designed to keep out ethnic groups in the United States and maintain American’s character as nation of northern and Western European stock. -
The Butler Act
The Butler Act was declared as an act to be unlawful of the teaching of any doctrine denying the creation of man as taught by the Bible and teaches evolution. -
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby was a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man who orders his life around one desire, to be reunited with the love he lost five years earlier. The book has a quest that leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death. -
Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial charged a high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, with violating state laws by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. He violated the Butler Act. He was found guilty. -
Sacco and Vanzetti
Sacco and Vanzetti, the Italian-born political radicals, were accused and convicted of murder in the United States in 1921. It was a controversial trial and both men were executed in 1921. Fifty years later, their names were cleared of any crimes. They were charged with committing robbery and murder at the Slater and Morris shoe factory. It was controversial because it was believed taht the evidence against the men was flimsy. -
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Valentine’s Day Massacre was a mass murder of a group of unarmed gang members in Chicago. The incident dramatized the intense rivalry for control of the illegal liquor traffic. It was a gang war between arch rivals Al Capone and Bugs Moran. -
Black Thursday
Black Thursday is the name given to Thursday, October 24 in 1929 when panicked investors sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average plugging 11% at the open in very heavy volume. On this day, nearly 13 million shares of stock were trades and the market crashed the American economy because not only had individual investors but businesses also put their money into stocks. F -
21st Amendment
The 21st Amendment of the United States Constitution was ratified and reopened the 18th Amendment, bringing an end to the real of national prohibition of alcohol in American. Several states outlawed the manufacture or sale of alcohol within their borders.
