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Prohibition
This is when the 18th Amendment went into affect. This was the prohibition of alcohol, which meant alcohol couldn't be manufactured, sold, or transported. This was to reduce deaths and domestic violence -
Invention of the Band-Aid
Earle Dickinson invented the Band-Aid in 1921. His wife often cut her hands when working in the kitchen, and Dickenson wanted her to have a more effective way of bandaging her hands than the traditional method using gauze and tape. His employer, James Johnson was impressed with the invention and decided to manucature it. Dickinson became vice president of Johnson & Johnson. The sucess of the Band-Aid is part of the reason why Johnson & Johnson is still around today. -
19th Amendment
On August 18th, 1920, women finally won the right to vote. They showed that during WWI they could do the same jobs as men by running the factories and the businesses -
KDKA Radio
Very first radio station to ever broadcast in the United States. Started in Pittsburgh. It is also known as the first comercially licensed radio station in the United States. -
The Boll Weevil
In the 1920's, an insect started to emerge in the Southern United States. This insect was called the Boll Weevil. The Boll Weevil would eat and destroy all of the cotton crops inthe South,especially in the State of Georgia. -
Emergency Quota Act
The Emergency Quota Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of the U.S. Census of 1910.Based on that formula, the number of new immigrants admitted fell from 805,228 in 1920 to 309,556 in 1921-22. -
National Origins Act
The Act replaced the Emergency Quota Act and limited the intake of immigrants to 2 % of the number of immigrants from that country already living in U.S. -
Scopes Trial
The Scopes trial was about John Scopes was fined 100 dollars for teaching evolution. This trial brought up a dispute between modern and tradional values. The case was originally called The State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes -
KKK March in Washington
Founded in 1915 and inspired by the Reconstruction-era organization of the same name, the second Ku Klux Klan shared with its nineteenth-century namesake a deep racism, a fascination with mystical regalia, and a willingness to use violence to silence its foes. It also professed anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism as strongly as it affirmed racism. The “secret” society had 3 million members during its heyday in the early 1920s; -
The Bath School Disaster
Andrew Kehoe, a school board member upset by a property tax, set off three bombs at Bath Consolidated School in Bath Township, Michigan. He injured 58 people and killed 45, making it the deadliest mass murder in any school in the U.S. -
Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic
At 7:52 A.M., May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh gunned the engine of the "Spirit of St Louis" and aimed her down the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Heavily laden with fuel, the plane bounced down the muddy field, gradually became airborne and barely cleared the telephone wires at the field's edge. The crowd of 500 thought they had witnessed a miracle. Thirty-three and one half-hours and 3,500 miles later he landed in Paris, the first to fly the Atlantic alone. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are Executed
Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted after killing 2 men in a shoe factory robbery. They were excuted and later after their death they were ruler unfairly excuted and the case was reopened. -
Sliced Bread
In 1928, Fredrick Rohwedder created the first bread slicer. It was used for the first time on July 7th by the Chillicothe Baking Company. The availablility of sliced bread, along with the growing popularity of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, would change the American lunchbox forever. -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. President
President Hoover turned the economy aroud and got out of the Great Depression. He did this with economic experence and ridded ineffiency and waste.
