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the New KKK
One sign of growing racism was the rebirth of the KKK, whih had officially dissolved during Reconstruction. The new kk was estblished in 1915 at stone moutain, georgia by a preacher named William Joseph Simmons. -
riots kill
25 race riots had erupted around the country, In June 1921 at least 30 people died during a race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma. -
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A Turbulent decade
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The palmer raids
The Palmer Raids were a series of raids in late 1919 and early 1920 by the United States Department of Justice intended to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. -
Boston Police Strike
In September 1919 another strike, the Boston police strike, further inflamed antilabor sentiments. The Boston Police offericers had recently formed a union to seek beter pay and working conditions -
The Steel strike
2 weeks after the Boston strike, some 365,000 steelworkers in western Pennsylvania-many of them immigrants- walked off the job. -
United mine Workers strike
This was the last major strike. Some 400,000 coal miners walked out of the mines. -
Election of 1920
Harding ran for president and won it unamiously. He received 16 million votes, more than 60 percent of the popular vote, and 404 electoral votes. -
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AFRICAN AMERICANS COMING TO AMERICA
During the 1920s some 800,000 African Americans joined the hundres of thousands of AFrican Americans who had moved to the North during World War I. By 1930 the North African American population had reached almost 2.5 million, more than double tis size in 1910 -
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TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1924, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding -
Charles Daws
Charles Daws, head of the Bureau of the Budget, turns the federal government's annual deficit into a surplus -
New directions for women
Alice Paul of the National Woman's party, proposed to congress a constitutional amendment that proposed equal rights for women. -
SCIENCE BABY
Thomas Hunt Morgan proves a theory of heredity and locates genes in the chromosomes of fruit flies
