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US Opts Not to Join the League of Nations
Opposition in the Senate, particularly from Republican politicians Henry Cabot Lodge and William Borah and especially in regard to Article X of the Covenant, ensured that the United States would not ratify the agreement. -
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Al Capone is an Active Bootlegger
Al Capone was heavily involved in gang activity and moved to Chicago to make more money smuggling and bootlegging liquor during Prohibition. -
18th Amendment Passed
A Law passed that enforced prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States. -
19th Amendment Passed
Amendment that prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. -
Time Magazine First Published
TIME was first published on as a newsmagazine which was summarized and organized so that news was available to "busy men" so they could stay informed. -
Calvin Coolidge Elected
Coolidge was the 30th president of the USA and as President he demonstrated his determination to preserve the old moral and economic precepts amid the material prosperity which many Americans were enjoying. -
Locke publishes The New Negro sparking the Harlem Renaissance
As a central example of the creative efforts coming out of the burgeoning New Negro Movement or Harlem Renaissance, the book is considered by literary scholars and critics to be the definitive text of the movement. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald Published The Great Gatsby
The subject of the American Dream and the themes of success and failure are really why it's such an important novel. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Was a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school. -
KKK Marches on Washington
The Ku Klux Klan or the KKK, is the name of three distinct past and present organizations in the United States, which have advocated white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism, and at the time the measure of the Klan's influence was its march along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC in 1928. -
Langston Hughes Published The Weary Blues
The Weary Blues was a collection of poems that included iconic works such as “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “The Weary Blues”. -
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Babe Ruth hits 60 homeruns in one season
United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs, but made it into history when he hit more than 60 home runs in one season. -
Duke Ellington played at The Cotton Club
What made Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra famous were the weekly broadcasts on radio station WHN. One track in particular, Creole Love Call became a worldwide sensation and gave both Ellington and Hall their first hit record. -
Charles Lindbergh Solo Transatlantic Flight
Lindbergh gained world wide fame throught is triumphant non-stop flight on May 20–21, 1927, made from Roosevelt Field located in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France. -
The “Talkie” Movie The Jazz Singer is released
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. -
US Signs the Kellogg-Briand Pact
A 1928 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". -
Herbert Hoover Elected
Herbert Hoover was elected as the 31st President of the USA, and is known being in office during the onset of the Great Depression. -
The First Mickey Mouse Cartoon “Steamboat Willie” Premieres
Was the ‘premiere’ of Mickey and Minnie and was the first animation to include sound. -
Black Tuesday Stock Market Crash
as the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries and did not end in the United States until the onset of American mobilization for World War II at the end of 1941. -
Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Transatlantic Flight
She intended to fly to Paris in her single engine Lockheed Vega 5B to emulate Charles Lindbergh's solo flight. After a flight lasting 14 hours, 56 minutes during which she contended with strong northerly winds, icy conditions and mechanical problems, Earhart landed in a pasture at Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland.
