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Harlem Renaissance Began
Known as the "New Negro Movement" African-American cultures began to rise. -
Red Scare
"a nation-wide anti-radical hysteria provoked by a mounting fear and anxiety that a Bolshevik revolution in America was imminent—a revolution that would change Church, home, marriage, civility, and the American way of Life." -
Volstead Act
This was the National Prohibition Act. The three distinct purposes of the Act were:
to prohibit intoxicating beverages,
to regulate the manufacture, sale, or transport of intoxicating liquor (but not consumption), and
to ensure an ample supply of alcohol and promote its use in scientific research and in the development of fuel, dye and other lawful industries and practices, such as religious rituals. -
Palmer Raids
These raids were attempts to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment of the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport and sale 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
The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. -
Warren G. Harding
Harding was elected president in 1921. He was the 29th president of the united states. -
Washington's Disarment Confrence
A military conference regarding interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
This tariff raised American tariffs in order to protect factories and farms. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
This was a bribery incident that Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge became president after Harding died. That made him the 30th president. -
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover appointed director of the bureau of investigation. (FBI) -
Immigration Act Basic Law
This law 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 set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, -
Scopes Trial
This trial was known as the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, -
NBC Founded
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network. -
Charles Lindberg
Lindberg made the first trans-atlantic flight from Long Island. -
Sacco and Vanzetti
Two anrchists who were convicted of muder of killing two men during an armed robbery of a shoe factory in Massachusetts. -
The Jazz Singer Released
The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release talked about the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
This was an 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
During the Prohibition Era The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the name given to the 1929 murder of seven mob associates of North side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was elected president in 1928. He was the 31st preident of the untied states. -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
This crash signaled the start of the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression which affected all western industialized countries. -
Great Depression Began
The start of the Great Depression began because of the sudden devastating collapse of US stock market prices on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday; -
Amelia Earhart
Earhat flew solo across the atlatic ocean. She was the first female to do so,
