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Emergency Quota Act
Americas first limitation on how many immigrants are allowed into the country. (https://www.nps.gov/articles/closing-the-door-on-immigration.htm) -
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President: Warren G. Harding
"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality." https://www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/warren-g-harding -
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President: Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge was "distinguished for character more than for heroic achievement," wrote one Democratic admirer, Alfred E. Smith. "His great task was to restore the dignity and prestige of the presidency when it had reached the lowest ebb in our history . . . in a time of extravagance and waste. . . ." (https://www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/calvin-coolidge) -
Immigration Act of 1924
Restricted and limited even more immigrants from the Emergency Quota Act. This reduced the percentage from 3% to 2% of each nation to be admitted. In addition, this act excluded all asian countries. (https://www.thepostemail.com/2011/08/06/how-stupidity-destroyed-us/pres-calvin-coolidge-signing-immigration-act-of-1924/) -
The Spirit of St. Louis
Charles Lindberg completes the first ever non stop transatlantic flight from Long Island, NY to Paris, France (https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/spirit-of-st-louis-anniversary/) -
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President: Herbert Hoover
Son of a Quaker blacksmith, President Hoover brought to the presidency a luminous reputation as an engineer, administrator, and humanitarian. (https://www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/herbert-hoover) -
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The Great Depression
A Worldwide economic depression. Starting with the stock market crash of 1929, escalated with the Dust Bowl during the 1930s. -
Stock Market Crash
the stock market had crashed and in four days DOW Jones had dropped a whopping 25%. This created a series of loss for many businesses and people to lose savings. Leads to the Great Depression. (https://www.businessinsider.com/the-stock-market-crash-of-1929-what-you-need-to-know-2018-4) -
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem of United States of America. (https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100000010/) -
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President: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Assuming the presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (https://www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/franklin-roosevelt) -
Social Security Act
"established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped." (https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=68) -
WWII: Germany invades Poland
Adolf Hitler led Nazis invade Poland. France and Britain soon come to aid Poland and other nations nearby get involved soon after. (https://www.history.com/news/the-nazis-developed-sarin-gas-but-hitler-was-afraid-to-use-it) -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
a surprise attack by the Japanese was made on a U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This attack was one of the reasons that brought the U.S. out of neutrality and in to the War. (https://www.britannica.com/event/Pearl-Harbor-attack)
