The Roaring 20s

By frischj

  • The IBM Corporation is founded

  • The Ford Motor Company announces the creation of a 40 hour work week

  • The Palmer Raids arrest and deport over 6,000 suspected "radicals"

  • The 18th Amendment goes into effect.

    It is important to note that the 18th Amendment did not prohibit the consumption of alcohol, but rather simply the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.

  • The League of Nations is founded

  • Warren G. Harding is elected president

  • Sacco and Vanzetti Trial concludes

    Despite worldwide demonstrations in support of their innocence, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for murder.

  • Readers Digest is founded

  • President Warren G. Harding dies

    He died from a heart attack.

  • President Calvin Coolidge is elected president

  • Adolf Hitler leads a failed attempt to overthrow the German government (Beer Hall Putsch)

  • George Gershwin releases "Rhapsody of Blue"

    A 1924 musical composition by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects.

  • The first winter Olympics are held

  • The National Origins act is passed limiting immigration

    A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s.

  • The Great Gatsby is published by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Scopes Monkey Trial begins in Dayton, TN

  • The Great Mississippi Flood displaces 700,000 people

    The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles inundated up to a depth of 30 feet. To try to prevent future floods, the federal government built the world's longest system of levees and flood ways
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  • Charles Lindbergh makes the first non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight

  • Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs

  • The Holland Tunnel connecting NYC and NJ opens

    The tunnel was built and operated by the New York-New Jersey Bridge and Tunnel Commission. Comprising two tubes, each large enough for two lanes of traffic, the Holland was the first underwater vehicular tunnel built in the United States.

  • Alexander Flemming discovers Penicillin

  • Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in the short film "Steamboat Willie"

    Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney. It was produced in black-and-white by Walt Disney Studios and was released by Celebrity Productions.

  • Herbert Hoover is elected president

  • Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre

  • Stock Market crashes on 'Black Tuesday'

  • Amelia Earhart attempts to fly around the world

  • Ellis Island closes as an immigration point to the United States