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The Steel Strike Ends
The Great Steel Strike of 1919 ends with capitulation by the steelworkers -
Prohabition
On January 16, 1920 Prohibition went into effect. It was now illegal to sell produce, or import liquor into the United States. -
Production of too much Cotton
Cotton prices at New Orleans peak at 42 cents a pound, prompting Southern farmers to plant the largest crop in history. The resulting overproduction causes a collapse in prices, with cotton falling to less than 10 cents a pound by early 1921. Cotton farmers will toil in near-depression conditions throughout most of the 1920s and 30s. -
13th Amendment
The 19th Amendment is ratified, granting women the right to vote. -
Wall Street Bombing
On September 16, 1920, a bomb went off on Wall Street in front of the building of JP Morgan. A total of 38 people were killed and 143 severely wounded. The perpetrators of the bombing were never found, it is believed that Italian anarchists carried out the attack. -
28th and 29th Presidents
Woodrow Wilson: (1913 to 1921)
Warren G. Hardin: (1921 to 1923) -
Missouri Governor
Arthur M. Hyde: (1921 to 1925) -
Budget and Accounting Act of 1921
In 1921, President Harding signed the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. It established the Bureau of the Budget. The bureau, for the first time, placed formal restrictions on the spending of government funds. The Bureau of the Budget later became the Office of Management and Budget. -
Emergency Quota Act is passed
The act limited the number of immigrants that were allowed to come to the United States. The yearly limits that were created restricted the number of immigrants from any country to three percent of the number of people from a country already living in the USA as of the 1910 census. This did not restrict immigration from Latin America and professionals were also excluded from the limits, no matter their nationality. -
Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act
The Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act becomes law, marking one of the first times the United States ventured into social security. -
Arms Limitation
US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation -
The Great Railroad Strike
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922, commonly known as the Railway Shopmen's Strike, was a nationwide strike of railroad workers in the United States. -
Tarrifs Up
Congress passes the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, sharply raising tariff duties to protect the American market for American manufactures. The tariff boosts the domestic economy of the Roaring '20s, but it also worsens the crisis for struggling European economies like Germany's, helping to enable Adolf Hitler's rise to power there on a platform of economic grievance. -
30th President
Calvin Coolidge: (1923 to 1929)
President Warren G. Harding dies of stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascends to presidency. -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Misuses of power for private gain had been rampant in the Harding Administration. The extent of these infractions only became clear with the public disclosure of the "Teapot Dome Scandal." A naval oil reserve was leased to private individuals by the Secretary of the Interior. He was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison. -
Olympics
The summer olympics hosted in France -
Ford Motor Company
The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billion. -
Indian Citizenship
The Indian Citizenship Act passed on June 2nd which confers citizenship on all Native Americans born within the United States. -
Great White Fleet
A United States Navy fleet visited New Zealand for the first time since 1908, when the ‘Great White Fleet’ had toured the world. -
U.S. Diphtheria
A major epidemic of Diphtheria breaks out on February 2nd in Alaska -
Nicaragua
After 13 years of occupancy, the U.S. Marines finally leave Nicaragua. -
First SAT College Admission Test
The first SAT college admissions test is given to high school students. -
Wall Street and Broadway
Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch -
First successful liquid fuel rocket
Robert Goddard launches the first successful liquid fuel rocket -
Great Miami Hurricane
Miami went through a huge boom in the early 1920s and at the time of the storm the population of the city was over 100,000 people. Many people in the rapidly expanding population were new to the region and did not know much about hurricanes so there was a lot of uncertainty on how to prepare for and react to large storms.