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Mitchell Palmer, the US attorney general, ordered the First Red Scare and arrested 6,000 communists, radicals, and anarchists.
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Result of Paris Peace Conference that ended World War One. The idea came from Woodrow Wilson.
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The 18th amendment prohibited alcohol. The amendment was passed in 1919, but did not go into effect until 1920. Th 18th amendment did not prohibit the ocnsumption of alcohol, but the sale, manufacture and tarnsportanton of such.
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The 19th Amendment gives the right to vote to women.
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Harding was a compromise candidtae of the progressive and conservative parties. Harding ignored Cox in the race and essentially campaigned against Wilson by calling for a "return to normalcy".
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KDKA recieved the first federal license to air commercials on radio.
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Sacco and Vanzetti were both found guilty for 1st degree murder dealing with a case of payroll robbery.
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Reader's Digest, a magazine company was founded in 1922 as an American Family interest magazine. The Wallaces started the company in Chappaqua, New York.
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The event happened after Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the Naval base.
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The Yankees First home Game against the Boston Red Sox
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A previous Massachussetts governor was elected president after the sudden death of Harding.
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Hitler attempted to overthrow the government by building his own army. He failed and was taken to jail and there he wrote a book about how he was going to take over.
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The first winter olympics was held in France which included bobsleigh, skiing, curling, figure skating, and more.
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"Rhapsody in Blue" combines classical music and Jazz music. It was made for a solo piano or jazz band.
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The Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company all combined to make to make CTR, then in 1924, they changed to IBM. In 1911, CTR started as a unch card tabulating machinery company. Then in 1953, it made its first computer, teh 701.
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The National Origins Act of 1924, also known as the Immigration Act, made immigration restriction a permanant US Policy and have preferance to "Old Immigrants"
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12 Million immigrants would pass through ellis island.
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Nick Carraway's story about living next to Gatsby told in 1922. Fitzgerald wrote the story taking place when Nick moved in planning on being a salesman.
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Mein Kampf was published when Adolf Hitler was in jail after attempting overthrow the governmeent. The book explains how Hitler would take over.
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A biology teacher in TN disobeyed the law by teaching evolution. Tennessee's Butler Act made it unlawful to teach evolution. Scopes was found guilty.
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The Weary Blues are a set of poems set in an era before the Civil Rights movement.
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It took 10 hours and 34 minutes for her to swim across the channel.
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Henry Ford was the first to make a five day work week of 40 hours and stable wages. This was to make workers to expend their full potential.
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23,000 square miles of Mississppi was flooded which resulted in 250 deaths.
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Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris, France. He helped make Missouri a leading developer in the world of aviation.
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In the Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx, Babe Ruth hit his 60th homerun. The World Record that no one was able to beat until 1999.
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It is about a girl named Jakie who loves jazz and ragtime and wants to become a performer.
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Under the Hudsen River, the Holland Tunnel connected Manhattan and New Jersey. The Holland Tunnel is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New jersey. It is also 93 ft below grown.
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Penicillin is a drug that fights off infections for you. Pencillin was founded in 1928, but wasn't prodcued until the 1940's.
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She was the first person to fly across the Atlantic.
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Republican Secretary of Commerce was elected for president. He outnumbered Governor Al Smith of NY.
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Walt Disney released his first movie with Mickey Mouse and the story is about Mickey navigating his way down a river with Minnie.
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In the Chicago St. Valentine's Day Massacre, seven people of the Moran Gang were shot and killed. They were made to stand against the wall and shot by four unknown assailants.
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Share prices on the NY Wall Street Stock Market crashed. It did not cause the Great Depression, but did accelerate the global economic collapse. It was caused by the new method of buuying stocks; buying on margin. Buying on margin was a way for investors to buy huge stocks with only 10 or 20 percent downs.
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Warren G. Harding dies of a heart attack while in San Francisco on a speaking tour.
