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Warren G. Harding Elected President
Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States. -
Calvin Coolidge Became President
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States -
Herbert Hoovers Elected President
Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States. -
Sacco and Vanzetti Executed
Two men who were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory. -
Red Scare
The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. -
Volstead Act
Was enacted to carry out the intent of the eightheenth amendment . -
Palmer Raids
Were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. -
Harlem Renaissance Began
Was 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 affected by the Great Migration (African American), of which Harlem was the largest. -
18th Amendment
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 Versialles 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 United States citizen from being denied the right to vote. -
Fordney-Mccumber Tariff
A law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods in order to protect factories and farms. -
Washington Disarmament Conference
was a military conference called by President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922. It was attended by nine nations—the United States, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal, regarding interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. -
Tea Pot Dome Scadal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
J. Edgar Hoover appointed director Of the Federal Bureau Of Investigation
Edgar Hoover was chosen to lead the Bureau of Investigation, beginning a legendary 48-year tenure marked by innovation, eccentricity and controversy. -
Immigration act Basic Law
was a United States 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 United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap -
Scopes Trial
A Tennessee high school teacher was accused of violatig the Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funded school. -
NBC Founded
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network. It is headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center, with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago. -
Charles Lindberg Made First Trans-Atlantic Flight
At 7:52 A.M., May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh gunned the engine of the "Spirit of St Louis" and aimed her down the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. -
The Jazz Singer Realeased
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 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. -
Kellogg-Brian Pact
was a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them. -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
The murder of seven mob associaties of North side irish gang led by Bugs Moran during the prohibition era. -
Great Depression Begins
Was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. -
Stock Market Crash ( Black tuesday)
was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. -
Amelia Earhart Flew Across the Atlantic Ocean
first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and the first person to make a solo flight across both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. She also set several height and speed records in an airplane.
