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Modern Ku Klux Klan formed
On Stone Mountain in Georgia, Colonel Simmons and 34 followers founded the Klan. They only allowed white, native born, gentile Americans to join. The group opposed Jews, Catholics, blacks, and aliens. They were mostly Anglo-Saxon Protestant men. -
Literacy Test Enacted
Over Wilson's veto, Congress enacted a literacy test that reduced the number of immigrants allowed into the United States. -
Eighteenth Amendment Passed
Congress passes the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. -
Roundups Begin
Federal Agents directed by Attorney General Palmer seized suspected anarchists and communists. They held them for deportation and with no regard for the due process of the law. -
Red Scare
The first and most extreme outbreak of national alarm was known as the Red Scare. it was a wave of anticommunist, antiforeign, and antilabor hysteria that had traveled over America at the end of WWI. The Red Scare resulted in the deportation of many alien residents and the violation of the civil liberties of many of its victims. -
Volstead Act
The Volstead Act was effective as of 1920 and banned most commercial production and distribution of beverages containing more than one-half percent of alcohol. -
Nineteenth Amendment passed
Women gained the right to vote through the 19th amendment which stated it illegal to deny someone the right to vote on the basis of gender. -
Warren Harding of Ohio Becomes President
Republicans regained the White House once the election of 1920 resulted in Warren Harding behing president. -
Sports on the rise
As people found more free time in their day, sports grew. Golf boomed, boxing grew along with baseball and football. More than 20 million spectators attended games in 1927. -
Emergency Immigration Act
Congress passes the act to restrict immigration from Europe to 3% of the number of nationals from each country living in the United States in 1910. The act failed to satisfy the nativists. -
Sheppard-Towner Act Enacted
Social Feminists won support for the enactment of the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921. The Act provided for federal aid to establish state programs for maternal and infant health care. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was when two oil promoters gave Albert Fall nearly $400,000 in loans and bribes. In return, he helped them secure leases on naval reserves in California and Wyoming. Fall served a year in jail and the reputation of Harding's administration never recovered. -
Equal Rights Amendment introduced to Congress
The National Women's Party succeeded in having an Equal Rights Amendment introduced to Congress in 1923. The amendment stated that men and women should have equal rights. -
National Convention In New York
Held in Madison Square garden, the convention was where the split within the Democratic party occured. It was a roughhouse where fighting continued for hours and nine days later, the delegates divided between Alfred Smith and William McAdoo. -
National Origins Quota Act adopted
Congress adopted the NOQ Act which limited immigration from Europe to 150,000 a year, it also allocated available slots to immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia. it banned all Asian immigrans as well. -
Election on 1924
Calvin Coolidge wins the election of 1924, he was a Republican who won with over 15 million votes compared to Davis's 8 million and La Follette's 4 million. -
Scopes Trial
When high school biology teacher John Scopes was accused of violatingTennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution, the Scopes Trial begun. Clarence Darrow supported Scopes while William Jennings Bryan called for the prosecution of him. -
Charles Lindbergh Completes Flight
Charles Lindbargh made the first nonstop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris -
Election of 1928
The nomination of Al Smith for the Democratic candidate indicated the growing power of the city. The Republican choice was Herbert Hoover who won the election with 21 million votes. -
Prohibition Repealed
Urban resistance towards the banning of alcohol led to the repeal of prohibition. There were more illegal operations occuring because of the ban so it was time for it to end.
