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1920's
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African American Baseball
First African American baseball league was organized and was represented by black communities. This was called the Negro National League, and was founded by Rube Foster. -
18th Ammendment
Prohibition came into effect - the United States went dry; breweries, distilleries, and saloons were forced to close their doors. -
Woman's Suffrage Amendment
The 19th Amendment is passed, granting women the right to vote. -
Immigration
Congress institutes a quota system that limits immigration to 3 percent of a nationality's number in the 1910 Census. -
Motion Pictures
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Sound motion pictures were developed; meaning images now could use sound technology instead of silent films. The first commercial screening of motion pictures using sound technology took place at this time. In April, the first sound on film motion picture "Phonofilm" is show in the Rivoli Theatre in New York City by Lee de Forest. -
Monkey Trial
At the "Monkey" Trial in Dayton, Tenn., schoolteacher John Scopes is tried for violating a Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of evolution. Scope's defense attorney Clarence Darrow called prosecuting attorney William Jennings Bryan to the stand, and ridiculed Bryan's fundamentalist religious beliefs. Scopes was found guilty of violating the law and fined $100. The sentence was later overturned. -
Airplanes
Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly solo in across the Atlantic. The airplane was called, “Spirit of St. Louis” and he travelled from Long Island to Paris. This flight took 33 hours and 30 minutes. -
Our Dancing Daughters - Joan Crawford
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This classic portrayal of the flapper who defies sexual convention and dances the Charleston till dawn was the film that made Joan Crawford a star. It also reveals the ambivalence that many Americans felt about the “revolution in morals and manners.” Crawford’s character’s flirting and drinking flapper masks her more conservative attitude toward love and sex. -
Herbert Hoover
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"We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. We shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation." - Herbert Hoover's Inaugeration -
Black Tuesday
The bull market of the late 1920s comes to a crashing end. Between September 3 and December 1, stocks declined $26 billion in value.