The Great Gatsby

By SB3548

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Women have the right to vote

  • Volstead Act

    Volstead Act
    The Volstead Act, popular name for the National Prohibition Enforcement Act, had been passed on October 28, 1919. Enacted to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, which was ratified on January 16, 1919, the Volstead Act superceded existing prohibition legislation in 33 states.

  • Presidency

    Presidency
    President Warren G. Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge succeeds him

  • FBI

    FBI
    J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation — predecessor to the FBI.

  • Scopes Trial

    Scopes Trial
    Scopes Trial, whose outcome found that the teaching of evolution in the classroom "does not violate church and state or state religion laws but instead, merely prohibits the teaching of evolution on the grounds of intellectual disagreement"

  • First motion picture movie

    First motion picture movie
    The Jazz Singer, the first "talkie" (motion picture with sound) is released

  • Amelia Earhart.

    Amelia Earhart.
    Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

  • The Great Deppression started

    The Great Deppression started

  • Valentines Day Massacre

    Valentines Day Massacre
    The Valentine's Day Massacre, when Al Capone has seven of Bugs Moran's men murdered in Chicago

  • Stock Market Crashed

    Stock Market Crashed