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The 1920's
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Event 1
The german allies ended world war one. -
Eighteenth amendment
This was the prohibition which kept people from creating and distributing alcohol. -
Woodrow Wilson
The great leader of our country suffered a stroke leaving him largely incapacitated for the final 18 months of his term. -
Red scare
Caused the palmer raids which caused fear in the public even more. The government would search homes for signs of communism. -
Volstead Act
On January 16, 1920 it was made illegal to sell, make, or transport any drink that contained more than one half of one percent alcohol by volume. Many people brewed “bathtub gin” in the homes to circumvent the law. However, the extremely high alcohol content made the brew very potent. Canada became important in the smuggling of alcohol to the US. -
Sacco and Vanzetti
Arrested in May 1920, Sacco & Vanszetti were charged with executing a robbery and murder in exchange for money. While there was little evidence against the two, the pair were vocal about their anarchist views. Mixed with their ethnic background, Italian, the public had already convicted them based on those two factors. They were sentenced to death. This case is a prime example of the widespread racism -
Babe Ruth
He was born on February, 6, 1895. He had the record for the most home runs and was the most famous baseball player of the time -
Al Capone
He was a famous gangster in the 1920's but was taken down for tax evasion. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was born in 1863 and had invented the assembly line after creating the Ford motor company and shortly after introduced the model T. -
KKK came into the picture
White supremacy groups such as the Ku Klux Klan gained in popularity by the middle of the 1910s. Hatred toward immigrants as well as African Americans, American Jews, and Catholics were all boasted by Klan. As the years past attacks by the Clan became increasingly violent. African Americans lived in fear of being in the wrong place at the wrong time which resulted often times in violent lynchings. *Unfortunately congress did little to protect people from meeting such a violent end at the hand -
albert einstein
He was a famous scientist who was responsible for inventing the atom bomb in the manhattan project -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Self-proclaimed "Flapper King" & Author of The Great Gatsby. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
July 1925—Teacher John T. Scopes goes to trial in Dayton, TN, for teaching evolution over creationism in a public school. Just months before the Butler Act made it illegal to teach evolution in Tennessee schools. Scopes was found guilty as charged. -
KKK
The klansmen march at the whitehouse 45,000 of the white hooded procession filling Pennsylvania Avenue
