Roaring 20s Diaz

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  • Red Scare

    It is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.

  • Palmer Raids

    Were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States.

  • Volstead Act

    The National Prohibition Act of 1919 (commonly called the Volstead Act) was enabling legislation enacted to provide for the implementation of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which established National Prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

  • 18th Amendment

    It banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.

  • Harlem Renaissance Began

    It was a cultural movement. Also known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.

  • 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

    Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex.

  • Warren G. Harding Elected President

    The Republicans nominated newspaper publisher and Senator Warren G. Harding, while the Democrats chose newspaper publisher and Governor James M. Cox.

  • Sacco and Vanzetti Executed

    Were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States in 1920.

  • Washington Disarmament Conference

    Conducted outside the auspices of the League of Nations, it was attended by nine nations—the United States, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal—regarding interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. Soviet Russia was not invited to the conference.

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    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.

  • Fordney-McCumber Tariff

    A law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods in order to protect factories and farms.

  • Calvin Coolidge Became President

    President Harding died unexpectedly while in office, so the vice president, Calvin Coolidge, stepped up. Coolidge succeeded to the presidency. He went on to win the next election and therefore served as president of the U.S. for six years.

  • J. Edgar Hoover Appointed Director of the Bureau of Investigation

    Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.

  • Immigration Act Basic Law

    was a United States federal law that 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, according to the Census of 1890. It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act.

  • Scopes Trial

    A sensational court case in which the biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution.

  • NBC Founded

    Is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network.

  • Charles Lindberg Made First Trans-Atlantic Flight

    Charles was the first person to successfully make a flight across the Trans-Atlantic Ocean.

  • The Jazz Singer Released

    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.

  • Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across the Atlantic Ocean

    Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record.

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

    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 Hoovers Elected President

    Herbert Hoover was nominated as the Republican candidate, as incumbent President Calvin Coolidge chose not to run for a second full term.

  • St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder of seven mob associates of North side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran during the Prohibition Era.This resulted from the struggle to take control of organized crime in Chicago between the Irish American gang and the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone Former members of the Egan's Rats gang were also suspected of having played a significant role in the incident, assisting Capone.

  • Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)

    It began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.

  • Great Depression Began

    A severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.