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18th Amendment
The manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages is prohibitated. -
U.S didnt join League of Nations
President Wilson made that and was for joining but it was up to the congress if they wanted to join or not. The league of Nations had many problems with its "constitution" that not everyone agreed upon it. -
19th Amendment
It allows everyone including women thier right to vote -
Time Magazine
It was a newsmagazine which summerizes and organizes news so that "busy men" could stay informed with all the news. -
KKK Marches on Washington
This was the second out of three movements the Ku Klux klan had for white supremecy. Had the strongest chapters in Klan history. Organized series of massive rallies ranging from 20,000 to 70,000 people. They weren't publicly violent but participated in violent intimidation campaigns. -
Calvin Coolridge
He was vice-president, but the president was shot. So he became President. During his presidency he isolated the country in foreign policy, was for tax cuts, and restricted aid to farmers. -
Al Capome
Capone becomes the powerful leader of Chicago, running gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging dirty buisness and expanding his territories by the gunning down of rivals and rival gangs. -
The Great Gatsby
A novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald of trimph and tragedy about American society. -
Locke Publishes The New Negro
Alain Locke wrote to his perspective. He wrote about Harlem and what it ment to be african american during those times. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
This trial is against the governent and scopes trying to unban the ablility to teach and talk about evolution. -
The Weary Blues
This was a book of poems written by Langston Hughes writting about personal experiances to go with jazz and blues music -
The "Talkie" Movie the Jazz Singer is released
The Jazz Singer was the first full length movie that included dialogue and music itself. Before movies where silent which were on;y accompimned by music, usually by live orchestras. -
Charles Lindbergh Solo Transatlantic Flight
A prize of $25,000 was offered for the first person to fly non-stop from New-York to Paris. Many attempts were tried, people got injured, died or went missing. But the prize was still on so Lindbergh convinced 9 St. Louis buisness men to fund him. Many doubted him but on May 20 he lifted into the sky and later landed in Paris 33 & 1/2 hours later being the first to fly the transatlantic. -
Babe Ruth hits 60 homeruns in one season
George Herman Ruth hit his 60th homerun that held record for 34 years. He started out young so that is how he got the name babe short for baby.Stareted out with the Bosten Red Sox then was sold to the NY Yankees. During the time Babe Ruth was there the Yankees won four World Series and seven American League pennants. Babe Ruth later died of throat cancer. -
Duke Ellington played at The Cotton Club
Duke Ellington is the most celebrated and critically acclaimed jazz composer.The Cotton Club was the most famous of the city's nightclubs in the 1920s and 1930s, alluring an audience that often included the finest of New York society. -
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to prohibit war. It is also called the Pact of Paris because that is were it was signed at. The pact was one of many international efforts to prevent another World War, yet it had a small effect in stopping the emerging militarism of the 1930s or avoiding World War II. -
Herbert Hoover's Election
He went against Alfred E. Smith of New York and it was an easy win because he was a Catholic and most Americans at that point of time were protestant. Hoover didnt have much of a challenge. -
First Mickey Mouse Cartoon
The episode "Steamboat Willie" became a debut of Mickey Mouse and Minnie. This black and white episode was the the 3rd of Mickeys' films but was the first to be distributed. It was also the first to have sound in the film. -
Black Tuesday Stock Market Crash
Altough the stock market was a risky thing to do during that period of time it did not seem so. At first things were going great. Stock prices were peaking. Altough there were small signs of a crash it was ignored and the people were reassured. But that morning of Tuesday, October 29 prices dropped starteing the Great Depression -
First Woman to fly Solo Transatlantic Flight
Amelia Earhart was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She had preiously flown in an airplane across the Atlantic before but she wasn't the pilot. But after that she wanted to experiance it herself and did it. After that she set a few more records before she disappeared while trying to fly across the whole world.
