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Freud Publishes his "Interpretation of Dreams"
Sigmund Freud was a German philosiphy student whose main work was studying the unconcious mind, psycoanalysis and the mechanism of repression. He influenced the 1920s in that people began reading, understanding, and appreciating his works for the deep insight that they provided to the human mind. -
Model T First Produced
The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile became popular. The first production Model T was produced on August 12, 1908 and left the factory on September 27, 1908, at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan. -
Charlie Chaplin Prime
Charlie Chaplin brought comedy to a world that was still horrified by the first world war. Chaplin was a gigantic success for over 25 years, right throuh the second world war. -
Marcus Garvey First Public Adress
Marcus Garvey was an African-American journalist, publisher and entrepreneur who strongley advocated for black rights and nationalism. -
Adkins v. Children's Hospital
In 1918, Congress passed a law setting minimum wages for women and children in the District of Columbia. As in other cases, the question was one of balancing the police power of Congress to regulate health and safety with the right of individuals to conduct their own affairs without legislative interference. Children's Hospital and a female elevator operator at a hotel brought this case to prevent enforcement of the act by Jesse C. Adkins and the two other members of a wage board. -
Volstead Act
Act passed by Congress to enable states to enforce National Prohibition and the 18th amendment banning alcohol. Repealed in 1932 by Franklin Delanor Roosevelt. -
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Washington Naval Conference
Conference held which invited world powers.
The Five-Power Treaty: England, US, Japan, France, and Italy signed to reduce naval powers to ratio 5:5:3.
The Four-Power Treaty: US, England, France, Japan agreed to respect each others rights in China and no alliances were obligated.
The Nine-Power Treaty: Officially recognized Open-Door Policy, Japan's influence in Manchuria, and China's territorial rights. -
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Duke Ellington and the Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a movement that took place during the 1920s, from which jazz music and dance emerged with the introduction of mainstream radio and the end of the war. Ellington was a huge part of the Jazz Age, writing over 1000 compositions. -
Palmer Raids
The Palmer Raids were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. They spoke to the sense of nationalism of the time and they relaate to The Red Scare. -
Warren G. Harding Elected President
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Emergency Quota Act of 1921
The resumption of immigration and the widespread unemployment that followed the end of World War I lent strength to the anti-immigration movement.The act, was passed without a recorded vote in the U.S. House of Representatives and by a vote of 78-1 in the U.S. Senate. -
Flappers
Mostly single women who stayed in the workforce and lived a social life by night. Big change for women as they now lived independently. Went to jazz clubs and dressed with flashy clothes rather than conservative looking housewife. -
Fordney–McCumber Tariff
The Fordney–McCumber Tariff of 1922 raised American tariffs in order to protect factories and farms. -
The Era of Calvin Coolidge
Elected first under Waren G. Harding as vice president, Coolidge successfully repealed the short-comings from the previous administration. Also, he passed the Immigrant Act of 1924 which favored Northern Europe and prevented any Japanese immigration. In addition, he repealed World War 1 taxes which led to the Great Depression. -
Immigration Act of 1924
Signed by Calvin Coolidge that allowed only 2% of immigrants from each country to slow and immigration.It barred all asian immigants which sparked great controversy. -
Dawes Plan
Separate peace agreement between America and Germany after World War I that required Germany to pay war reparations and allowed Germany to borrow money to repay European debts. -
Ku-Klux-Klan
A white supremacist group formed after the Civil War that, in the 20's, lynched immigrants African Americans, Jews, Catholics etc. to perform "ethnic cleansing". -
The Lost Generation,The Great Gatsby Published
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby has become an American classic and a staple in high schools all over the World. The Great Gatsby is one of many Lost Generation books that were produced in the 1920s. The Lost Generation was made up by writers and philosiphers who had seen so much hardship in their life that they could do nothing but write novels about the meaninglesness and hopelesness of life. -
Scopes Trial
Landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school. William Jennings Bryan was involved in the case. -
Harlem Renaissance
Period of African American and other black cultural evolution in literature, art and music. Jazz and blues branched from the period and a new worldwide perspective was gained on the black community. -
Gertrude Ederle
American, first woman to swim across English Channel. -
Sacco and Vanzetti and the Red Scare
The country, communist-fearing America watched as a biased jury and racist judge convicted the Italian immigrants readily. After a seven year trial the two were sentenced to death in attempt to "cleanse" America of all communists after the two were suspected of a bombing in Massachussetts. -
Charles Lindbergh's Famous Flight
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lindbergh used his fame to promote the development of both commercial aviation and Air Mail services in the United States. Charles Lindbergh was somewhat of a rockstar in the twenties and the world was devistated when his infant child was kidnapped and murdered in what was named the "Crime of the Century." -
Kellogg-Braind Pact
The 1928 Kellogg–Briand Pact was concluded outside the League of Nations, and remains a binding treaty under international law. As a practical matter, the Kellogg–Briand Pact did not live up to its aim of ending war, and in this sense it made no immediate contribution to international peace and proved to be ineffective in the years to come. -
Al "Scarface" Capone
Infamous gangster Al Capone, part of a lucrative bootlegging scheme during prohibition in Chicago was well known for his Valentine's Day massacre of seven unarmed enemies. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
The Tariff Act of 1930, otherwise known as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff or Hawley-Smoot Tariff, was an act, sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley, and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. -
Hoover-Stimson Doctrine
This said that the United States would not recognize any territorial acquisitions that were taken over by force. -
Bonus Army
The Bonus Army was the name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers,17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups, who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Company set up to give loans duing the Great Depression initially only for financial, industrial, and agriculture but expanded under FDR.
