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Henry Ford (Notable Person)
-Founder of Motor Company
-Revolutionized assembly line-modes of production for the automobile. -
18th Ammendment (Law, Legal case or Political Event)
Established the Prohibition
-Production, transportation,or sale was ILLEGAL -
Senate Rejects League (Political Event)
-Senate would not ratify the Versailles Treaty. -
Womens Suffrage/19th Ammendment (Law, Political Event, Legal Case)
-Granted American women the right to vote.
-went national with the Seneca Falls Convention -
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial (Legal Case)
- Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted and put to death for murdering a guard and pay master during an armed robbery of Slater and Morrill Shoe Company
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Presidential Elections (Political Event)
-Warren G. Harding
-First election since the ratification of the 19th Ammendment. -
Palmer Raids (Event)
-Raids due to the Red Scare.
-a series of raids by the United States Department of Justice used to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists. -
Margaret Sanger (Notable Person)
-Birth control advocate
-Founder of American Birth Control League -
World Series (Event)
-Baseball World Series is broadcasted on the radio for the first time
-New York Giants against New York Yankees -
President Harding dies (Event)
-Harding dies of a stroke in and San Francisco hotel room.
-Experienced possible food poisoning
-Seemed to be getting better but later died due to a sudden stroke/heart attack
-wife never allowed autopsy. -
Ftisgerald Gatsby (Event)
F. Scott Fitzgerald published the Great Gatsby
-he died thinking his book was a failure due to its lack of sales when it came out.
-After war, book sales boomed and became apart of high school curriculum. -
Babe Ruth (Notable Person)
On September 30, 1927, Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run. This broke his own record of 59 home runs. -
Stock Market Collapse (Event)
Stock Market crashed and started the beginning of the Great Depression -
Marcus Garvey (Notable Person)
Most popular black nationalist leader. He was the founder or the U.S Nergro Improvement Association. -
Sinclair Lewis (Notable Person)
American novelist and playwright
First American to win Nobel Prize in literature