America After WWI

By breanne.jacks

  • 18th Amendment estabilishes prohibition

    Prohibiton was supported by women, preachers, and many other people in the communities of America. The 18th Amendment was part of the Volstead Act issued later in 1919. However this wasn't an Amendment that everyone agreed openly about, the result of this was bootlegging to get illegal drinks in some places.
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    America After WWI

    American life during the Roaring Twenties; the politics of Boom and Bust; the Great Depression; and the New Deal.

  • Black Sox Scandal

    Black Sox Scandal
    This scandal came about by eight players from the BlackSox being accused of trying to blow the game in orderfor the opposing team to win the World Series.

  • Treaty of Versailles ends World War I

    In the Treaty of Versailles President Wilson issued fourteen points that he felt was important to include in the treaty. A few of these points included "open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, the creation of an international organization to preserve the peace and security of its members,.."("AP US HISTORY CRASH COURSE")
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    The Roaring Twenties

    During this time period things began to take a turn for the better. Home improvement and improvements in the way of living made this time period better for all who lived through it.

  • United States Rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations

    The United State rejects the League of Nations because they feel this will lead to more World Wars and President Wilson refused to make any changes to how strictly America would follow the charter.

  • 19th Amendment

    Almost 80 years after the first fight for womens sufferage began the right for women to vote was granted in the 19th Amendment.

  • Esch-Cummins Act

    "Encouraged private consolidation of the railroads and pledge the Interstate Commerce Commission to guarantee their profitability. The new philosophy was not to save the country from the railroads, ..., but to save the railroads for the country"(David M.Kennedy, Lizabeth Choen, Thomas A Bailey) The whole goal of this was to protect and save the railroad from being owned by someone other then the people in the United States.

  • Sacco and Vanzetti arrested

    Arrested for the murder of a Massachusettes paymaster and his guard. The trail was unfair because of the fact that both the jury selected and the judge were prejudice against them both.

  • Warren G. Harding Inaugurated

  • Washington Disarmament Confrence of 1921

  • Emergency Qouta Act

  • Forney-McCumber tariff

  • Warren G. Harding Dies

  • Calvin Coolidge becomes President

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

  • Immigration Act Basic Law

  • Scopes Trail

  • Sacco and Vanzetti executed

    Six years after the trail with an unfair jury and judge began both men were executed for killing 2 men in Massachusetts. They were killed by electrocution.

  • First Trans-Atlantic flight

  • First talikng movie

  • First Solo female flight across Atlantic Ocean

  • Steamboat Willie

    Steamboat Willie
    This is the first movie made featuring Mickey Mouse. The point of the show for Mickey at least was to impress the lady (Minnie Mouse) and have some fun while doing it.

  • Herbert Hoover becomes President

  • St. Valentine's Day Massacre

  • Immigration Act

  • DOW Jones Plummets

  • Empire State Building Opens

  • Stimson Doctorine

  • Norris-La Guardia Act

  • Bonus Army March

    This march was carried out by members of the army during World War I who were promised a bonus check and they hadn't recieved it and the government refused to give it to them so these men and a few women took it as a chance to use their 1st Amendment right and protest.

  • Model B Introduced

  • Franklin D. Rossevelt becomes president

  • 20th Amendment

  • The New Deal

    Part of the New Deal craeted by Rossevelt had many different acronyms and became to be known as Alphabet Soup. The New deal focused mainly on relief, recovery, and reform. All of 3 R's were in so part a piece of the Alphabet Soup.

  • 21st Amendment

  • Dust Bowl Begins

    The Dust Bowl was a huge sand storm that took over parts of the US. This was caused by no rain for weeks, wind, and over cultivation of the land. This in turn caused families to move west and leave their homes in order to escape the dangerous and all consuming dust.

  • Johnson Act

  • Tydings-McDuffie Act

  • Neutrality Act

  • Social Security Act

    This act "created a federal pension system funded by taxes on a worker's wages and by an equivalent contribution by employers" (AP US HISTORY CRASH COURSE"). This act is still in use today and the age is somewhere around 65 years of age in order to draw.

  • Revenue Act

  • Robinson-Patman Act

  • Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    This was Walt Disney's first full length animated production. This is still a favorite among young children and even a few adults. The movie might have been remade or changed a little since Walt first release the movie but end the end she always gets the Prince.

  • Wheeler-Lea Act

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

  • Invasion of Poland