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Germany Allies End World War
Germany and the Allies sign an armistice ,end the fighting in World War I. -
Death of Theodore Roosevelt
Leader of the progressive wing of the Republican Party Roosevelt died in 1919, which allowed the return of the old guards -
Business prosperity
We start to see A rise of 64 percent in manufaturing output -
Presidency of Warren Harding
President Harding was elected after the death of Roosevelt his postwar presidency was filled was scandles and corruption . -
Jazz age
Highscools and college youth expressed their rebellion against their elders culture by dancing to jazz music -
Prohibition
Congress passed the 18th amendment to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages many defied the law because of this -
Senate rejects League
The Senate refuses to ratify the Versailles Treaty or authorize United States participation in the League of Nations. -
Garvey conference
Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, convenes the first International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in New York's Madison Square Garden. -
Washington conference
Initiated talks on naval Disarmanet hoping to stabilize the size of the us navy . -
Tariffs
Passed by congress in 1922 the ford ney mc chamber tariff increased the duties on foreign manufactured goods by 25 percent -
German reconstructions
Germany, burdened by reparations payments imposed by Treaty of Versailles, suffers hyperinflation. One American dollar is now worth 7,000 German marks. -
Death of president Harding
President Warren G. Harding dies of stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascends to presidency. -
Election of 1924
Coolidge wins elections as a republican beat his opponent john W.davis -
Ford motor company
The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billion. -
Radicals executed
With all possible avenues of appeal now exhausted, Italian immigrant radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed by electric chair. -
KKK
40,000 Ku Klux Klansmen march on Washington, their white-hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue. -
Money mouse
The introduction to beloved character Mickey Mouse -
Herbert Hoover elected as president
Herbert Hoover, running on a slogan of "A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage," is elected to the presidency, crushing Catholic Democrat Al Smith to maintain Republican dominance of the Oval Office. -
Impact of Automobile
By 1929 a total of 26.5 million automobiles were registered replacing the railroad as for transportation -
The start of the Great Depression
The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaks in September 1929 at 381.17—a level that it won't reach again until 1954. The Dow will bottom out at a Depression-era low of just 41.22 in 1932. -
Harlem renaissance
20 percent of African Americans lived in the north as migration from the south continued although they still faced discrimination