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18th Amendment ratified
The 18th amendment started prohibition, but it wasn't enforced until a year later. Prohibition stopped the country from becoming full of drunks. Also, prohibition helped many criminals, like Al Capone, sell "giggle water" to people who needed to drink. -
Palmer Raids Launched
A. Mitchell Palmer led raids against leftists, people opposing social hierarchy and inequality, and anarchists. This happened during the Red Scare, a time when people feared political radicals. People were scared of other views, like socialism, but really America is supposed to welcome new views. People were xenophobic and did not welcome the new immigrants to our society. -
19th Amendment ratified
The 19th amendment stated that the United States prohibits any US citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of gender. This gave women a sense of confidence, and they felt like they could do everything men could. This is where flappers got there sense of confidence from. -
Sacco and Vanzetti found Guilty
The 6 week trial was over, and Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty of robbery and murder. There was little strong evidence against them that they were guilty, but, some believe, they were eventually found guilty because they were immigrants. This showed that people then were xenophobic, even though their parents, or themselves, were, in fact, immigrants! -
President Warren G. Harding dies
Present Warren G. Harding dies of a stroke in a San Fransico hotel room. Calvin Coolidge then takes over as president. Coolidge believed in laissez-faire government, and may have been a reason we started downhill into the Great Depression. Coolidge served until March 4, 1929. -
The Immigration Act of 1924 enacted
The Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act, limited the amount of immigrants allowed into the United States from a country to 2% of the immigrants from that country in the United States. The purpose of it was to "preserve the ideal of American homogenity." This restricted immigration greatly, and caused jobs to open up for Americans migrating from the south. This made black culture spread throughout the north. -
Sear's Shopping Department Store Open
Department stores were not new, but Sear's had a department store where you can shop at the store, rather than have to order from a catalog. This changed how effecient shopping was, and made it easier for people to shop for the next years. -
Great Gasby Published
The Great Gasby was Published by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This changed how people viewed the 1920s and showed the American Dream for the people. It "created a portrait" of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. -
Scopes Trial Ends
John Scopes was found guilty for teaching evolution in his class, and had to pay a $100 fine. The trial revealed the difference between modernists, people who believed in the truth of science and wanted change, and tradionalists, people who wanted to stick with the truth of the bible and wanted to stay the same. -
Amela Earhart flies across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart was the first women to fly across the Atlantic. She flew with two other co-pilots, but later she flew a solo flight across the Atlantic. This gave women even more confidence then they already had, and showed that women can do just as well as men can. -
Herbert Hoover was elected President
Herbert Hoover was elected president. He thought to stay out of things and let them happen themselves, which is what caused the Great Depression. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was the day when the stock market started to crash. The Roaring Twenties came to a halt and, in its place, was the Great Depression.
