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Henry Ford perfects mass production
Henry Ford offers a new way of manufacturing a large number of vehicles. This method of production was the moving assembly line. -
The Palmer Raids
Palmer Raids, raids conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1919 and 1920 in an attempt to arrest foreign anarchists, communists, and radical leftists -
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Harlem Renaissance begins
Pantheon James Weldon Johnson publishes God's Trombones, a collection of black dialect sermons in poetic form. -
Women gain the right to vote
Women gain the right to vote. Because the 19th amendment was ratified. -
Prohibition begins
Prohibition was enacted to protect individuals and families from the “scourge of drunkenness.” However, it had unintended consequences including: a rise in organized crime associated with the illegal production and sale of alcohol, an increase in smuggling, and a decline in tax revenue. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are convicted
Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and avowed anarchists who advocated the violent overthrow of capitalism. They were accused of armed robbery and murder, they were found guilty and put to death. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
A political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
Scopes trial
John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for teaching evolution in his Dayton, Tenn., classroom. The first highly publicized trial concerning the teaching of evolution, the Scopes trial also represents a dramatic clash between traditional and modern values in America of the 1920s. -
Charles Lindberg Crosses the Atlantic
Charles A. Lindbergh left Long Island's Roosevelt Field in a single-engine plane built by Ryan Airlines. -
Kellogg-Briand pact signed
The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to outlaw war. -
Black Tuesday stock market crash
A crowd of investors gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange on "Black Tuesday"—October 29, when the stock market plummeted and the U.S. plunged into the Great Depression.