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19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment (1920) to the constitution of the United States provides men and woman with equal voting rights. The amendment states that the right of citizen to vote "Shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. -
President Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923. He died of a heart attack in San Francisco -
Scopes Trail
Scopes commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violting Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach. Scopes was teaching of evolution -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929-1933 during the Great Depression -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution effectively establishment the prohibition of alcohol beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal -
Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism was a movement arose in the United States, starting among conservative Presbyterians theologians at Princeton Theological Seminary in the late 19th century. It soon spread to conservatives among the Baptists and other denominations around 1910 to 1920 -
Red Scare
As the cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940's and early 1950's, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947) Was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the ford motor company, and the sponsor of the development of the development of the assembly line technique of the mass production -
Sacco & Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States -
Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (July 4, 1872 - January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923-1929). A Repblican lawyer from New England, born in Vermont. Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachsetts State politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. -
The KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
The Ku Klux Klan, with its long history of violence, is the most famous and oldest of American hate groups, Although Black Americans have typically been the Klan's primary target, it also has attacked Jews, Immigrants, Gays, and Lesbians and until recently Catholics -
Farmers 1920
While most Americans enjoyed relative prosperity for most of the 1920's, the Great Depression for the American farmers really began after World War 1. Much of the Roaring '20's was a continual cycle of debt for the American farmers, to purchase expensive machinery -
Speakeasy
Speakeasy also called a blind pig or blind tiger is an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishment comes into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933, longer in some states. -
Bootleggers
Rum-running, or Bootlegging, is the illegal business of transporting (smuggling) alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. Smuggling is usually done to circumvent taxation or prohibition laws within a particular jurisdiction -
Bootleggers
Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of transporting (smuggling) alcohol beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. Smuggling is usually done to circumvent taxation or prohibition laws within a particular jurisdiction. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920's -
Inventions---> Cars
Henry Ford innovated mass-production techniques that became standard and Ford, General Motors and Chrysler emerge as the "Big Three" auto companies by the 1920's. It improved transportation an improved economy which made the automobile one of the most important inventions of the 1920's -
Katlyn's Birth
February 22, 2003 Katlyn Marie Burgess was born at Borgess Hospital -
Stock Market Crash
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying econimic factors. they often follow speculative stock market bubbles -
Katlyn's Graduation
In 2021 When Katlyn Burgess Graduates from Delton Kellogg High School -
Flappers
(In the 1920's) A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior -
Somethings that defines me (My Parents)
I've seen some of there mistakes and they taught me not to make the same ones and that I need to know what I wanna do in life -
Prohibition
The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933 -
Immigration
The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country -
Fads --> Pole sitting
Pole sitting is the practice of sitting on top if a pole (Such as a flagpole) for extended lengths of time, generally used as a test of endurance. A small platform is typically placed at the top of the pole for the sitter -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of president Warren G. Harding
