Late Teens and Roaring 20s

  • 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.
  • 18th amendment

    established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages
  • Red Scare

    the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States,
  • Volstead Act

    to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States. The Anti-Saloon League's Wayne Wheeler conceived and drafted the bill, which was named for Andrew Volstead,
  • Palmer Raids

    were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States
  • Treaty of Versailles Rejected

    United States Senate rejected for the second time the Treaty of Versailles, by a vote of 49-35, falling seven votes short
  • Harlem Renaissance Began

    period from the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s Depression,
  • 19th Amendment

    prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of 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.
  • Washington Disarmament Conference

    a military conference called by President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington
  • Fordney-McCumber Tariff

    was a law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods in order to protect factories and farms
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.
  • Calvin Coolidge Became President

    was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont
  • Act Immigration Basic Law

    permanent the basic limitations on immigration
  • Scopes Trail

    a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act,
  • NBC Founded

    National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network
  • Charles Lindberg Made First Trans-Atlantic Flight

    Charles Lindbergh's First Solo Flight & First Plane
  • The Jazz Singer Released

    the first feature-length film (89 minutes long) to include dialogue on the filmstrip itself.
  • Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across the Atlantic Ocean

    Amelia Earhart flew in a plane named Friendship with co-pilots Wilmer.
  • Kellogg–Briand Pact

    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

    is the name given to the 1929 murder of seven mob associates of North side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran during the Prohibition Era
  • Great Depression Began

    The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929
  • Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)

    most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States
  • 13. J. Edgar Hoover Appointed Director of the Bureau of Investigation

    was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation
  • 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.