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Harlem Renaissance Began
a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. The Movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States -
Red Scare
promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. -
Volstead Act
This act was created and intended to carry out the prohibition that wsa established the 18th amendment in the united states. -
Palmer Raids
attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. -
18th Amendment
effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport and sale of (though not the consumption or private possession of) alcohol illegal. -
Treaty of Versailles Rejected
the United States Senate rejected for the second time the Treaty of Versailles, by a vote of 49-35, falling seven votes short of a two-thirds majority needed for approval. -
19th Amendment
prohibits any US citizen from being denied the right to vote because of their sex. -
Warren G. Harding Elected President
was the 29th President of the United States (1921–1923), a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the United States Senate, where he protected alcohol interests and moderately supported women's suffrage. He was the first incumbent U.S. senator and the first newspaper publisher to be elected U.S. president. -
Washington Disarmament Conference
Conducted outside the auspices of the League of Nations, it was attended by nine nations—the United States, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal[1]—regarding interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
a law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods in order to protect factories and farms. -
Calvin Coolidge Became President
30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His conduct during the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. Soon after, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. -
J. Edgar Hoover Appointed Director of the Bureau of Investigation
first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at age 77. -
Immigration Act Basic Law
federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the US -
Scopes Trial
was a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
NBC Founded
is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network. -
Charles Lindberg Made First Trans-Atlantic Flight
the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris and the first solo flight across the Atlantic, taking off from Roosevelt Field in New York in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis. -
Sacco and Vanzetti Executed
were Italian-born anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States in 1920.
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The Jazz Singer Released
American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, the movie stars Al Jolson, who performs six songs. The film is based on The Day of Atonement, a play by Samson Raphaelson. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
An international agreement in which the nations that signed it promised to resolve all disputes that may come about -
Herbert Hoovers Elected President
was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover, born to a Quaker family, was a professional mining engineer. He achieved American and international prominence in humanitarian relief efforts in war-time Belgium and served as head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I.[1] As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, -
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
the murder murder of seven mob associates of North side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran during the Prohibition Era. -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States and signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. -
Great Depression Began
was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II
