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18th Admendment
Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. -
Harlem Renaissance
Cultural movement known as the Negro Movement, literary and intellectual flowering that fostered a new black cultural -
Red Scare
The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents -
Volstead Act
To carry out prohibition in the U.S -
Palmer Raids
Attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists -
Treaty of Versaillies Rejected
Based on objections to the League of Nations, U.S. would never ratify the treaty or join the League of Nations. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Bribery incident that took place in the U.S from 1920 to 1923 under president G.Harding -
19th Admendment
Guaranted American women the right to vote -
Warren G Harding Elected President
Harding became president in 1920 after Roosevelt died -
Washington Disarmament Conference
Military conference held, regrading interest in Pacific Ocean and East Ais -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
A law that raised American tariffs on imported goods to protect factories and farms -
Calvin Coolidge Became President
After the death of President Warren Harding, Coolidge became president -
J Edgar Hoover Director of the Bureau of Investigation
Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed Hoover director of the Bureau -
Immigration Act Basic Law
U>S federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country -
Scopes Trail
John Scopes a high school teacher, accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act -
Sacco and Vanzeti Executed
Italian-born anarchists executed by electrocution for murder -
NBC Founded
American broadcasting and radio network -
Charles Lindberg First Trans-Atlantic Flight
Completed the first nonstopo transatlatic flight -
The Jazz Singer
The first feature length film with synchronized dialogue sequences -
Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across the Atlantic Ocean
The first woman to fly across the Atlantic -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Agreement to outlaw war -
Herbert Hoovers President
Herbert Hoovers won the election agaist Alfred. E Smith -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Murder of seven mob associates of North side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran during the Prohibition -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
The Wall Street Crash, most devastating stock market crash signaling the 10-yr Great Dpression -
Great Depression Begans
Worldwide economic depression in the decade leading to WWII
