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Warren G. Harding
Elected 29th President of the United States -
Calvin Coolidge
Elected 30th President of the United States -
Herbert Hoover
Elected 31st President of the United States -
J.Edgar Hoover
Appointed director of the bureau of investigation -
Ameilia Earhart
FLew solo across the atlantic ocean -
Palmer Raids
Attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists -
19th Amendment
Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex -
Volstead Act
Enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment -
18th amendment
prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States -
Treaty of Versailles Rejected
United States Senate rejected for the second time the Treaty of Versailles -
Harlem Renaissance Began
Cultural movement that spanned the 1920s -
Charles Lindberg
Made first trans-atlantic flight -
Sacco and Vanzetti
talian-born anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men that were later executed -
Washington Disarmament Conference
Military conference called by President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington -
Teapot Dome scandal
Bribery incident that took place in the United States -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods in order to protect factories and farms -
Immigration Act Basic Law
United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country -
Scopes Trial
Trial started from a high school teacher violating the Butlers Act -
NBC Founded
American commercial broadcast television and radio network began -
The Jazz Singer
first feature-length motion picture released -
St. Valentine/s Day Massacre
Murder of seven mob associates of North side Irish gang -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
International agreement in which states promised not to use war to resolve problems among them -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
Investors trade 16,410,030 shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day -
Great Depression Began
Economic depression in the decade preceding World War II -
Red Scare
Promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism
