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Development of Jazz
Muscisians in New Orleans start to develop the style of music known today as Jazz. Jazz became the predominant genre of the 1920's. -
Palmer Raids
The U.S. Government attempted to locate, arrest, and deport anyone who was an anarchyst, leftist,or radical during the time of the Red Scare. -
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The Formation of the League of Nations
The Leauge of Nations was created with the radification of the Treaty of Versailes thus ending WW1. The U.S. did not join. -
19th Amendment Ratified
Gave women the right to vote with its passing. This prohibits any state or federal government from denying citizens the riht to vote based on their sex. -
First Radio Broadcast
The presidential election was broadcasted to the public. this alloowed them to be connected to the events going around them and was a way to get news across fater than by print. -
Warren. G. Harding elected President
Initially the senator for the state of Ohio he soon became the Republican presidential candidate. His " Return To normalcy " is what make the public gravitate twords him. -
Amilia Earhart takes first flying lesson
The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo, -
KKK Reemerge
Lawlessness, Hangings, branding, and all the horrible things assosiated with the kk came into reemergence witku klux klan. -
Shepard -Towner Act
Feminists won a triumph in 1921 when they helped secure passage of this act, which provided fedaral funds to states to establish prenatal and child health care- programs.This would encourage states to better care for women and children. -
Lindberg takes his first flight lesson
The first steps in flyng the Atlantic -
Fordney-McCumber
A law that would raise tariffs on imported goods in ordeer to protect farms and small local buisnesses. -
The Teapot Dome Affair
A public oil field in the state of wyoming. By the orders of president Harding the U.S. Navy Department into the new Department of the Interior -
The Model T Ford was made affordable
Though it wasn't created on this date it was markwed down from orignial retail price to appeal to a larger mass market and thus lead to the public getting cars. -
Harding dies and Coolidge becomes President
Coolidge did his best to clean up scandal and was mainly an issolationist concerned with domestic affairs and the public. -
Japanese Crusade
The U.S. votes to bar japanese immigrantes with exception to teachers, ministers, and their families. Later lead to the National Origins act -
The Dawes Plan
In order to gain reparations the Dawes plan was established to stabilitize the German Economy. -
The National Origins Act
Americans became agregious when immagrants started to become a large force in the job market. They distrusted foreigners and were concerned with esiange. -
First Woman Governor
Nellie Tayloe ross became the first women govorner and the 14th governor of wyoming. -
The Scopes Trial
A High Schoo. teacher violated the state law that said it was illegal to teach evolution in class. Though he was guilty it was overuled by a technicallity. -
NBC founded
An American commercial broadcast television and radio network established in the 20's. It's headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center. -
Herbert Hoover is elected president
Herbert Clark Hoover became the 31st President of the U.S. Hoover originated from the state of Iowa and was a Republican. -
The Great Mississippi Flood
The most Powerful natural disaster of the 1920's. created damage, loss, and distruction caused by heavy rain fall and leavee failures. over 27,000 square miles of property were damaged as well as an estimated 350 million dollars in damage. -
Charles Lindberg Crosses the Atlantic Ocean
Charles traveled 3,600 miles which at the time seemed to be impossible. He flew on The Spirit of St. Louis and landed near Paris, France. When he returned all of the country celebrated at the United States victory and the new hero Charles Lindberg. -
Trial of Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Anarchists convicted of murdering two men in an armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts.The trial carried on for a while but eventually both men were executed. Many argue the trial was unfair and biased because the terms of their innocence was jeopardized with unreliable evidence. -
First talking movie
At the time movies were not able to produce sound so when the first " talkie " came out the cinemas were flooded with people awaiting to see the newly released movie, The Jazz Singer. -
Penicillin
Sir Alexander Fleming was the creator of penicillin which is an antibiotic that is the cure to many diseases. this helped prolong life and showed that there was progression in medicine -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
An international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war as a resolution to problems. This agreement ultimatley failed. -
Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie is created
This new cartoon was the debut of the world known Mickey Mouse. -
St. Valentines Day Masaacre
AL Capones Men shoot and kill 7 men due to rivalires in selling illegal alcohol. -
The Stock Market Crash
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 or " Black Tuesday " is was devistating to bothe the american economy as well as the moral of it's people. This was the start of the Great Depression and was caused by the selling of stocks on margin.
