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Ku Klux Klun recruits.
The Ku Klux Klan decides to use recruitment campaign using marketing techniques; they recruited up to 85,700 people. -
Nineteenth Amendment- Women's right to vote.
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. It was not until 1848 that the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level with a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, organized by abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) and Lucretia Mott (1793-1880). Following the convent -
Harding Landslide
Republican Warren G. Harding is elected to the presidency by a landslide. Harding wins 60% of the popular vote and 75% of the electoral vote; Democrat James Cox wins only a handful of states in the South. Socialist Eugene Debs garners more than 900,000 votes despite campaigning from prison, where he is incarcerated for violating the wartime Espionage Act by giving an antiwar speech in 1918. -
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
The Sacco-Vanzetti trial begins; immigrant Italian radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will eventually be convicted of murder and executed. -
World Series on radio
Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time; the New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three. -
Louis Armstrong
Nicknamed "Satchmo" or "Pops"
Jazz trumpeter ans singer form New Orleans
One of the first famous African American entertainers to "cross Over." -
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford Created the assembly line.
Did not allow workers to drink alcohol.
Sent immigrants to school to learn to be american.The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billion. -
Charlie Chaplin in Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin's popular silent comedy The Gold Rush premieres before enthusiastic audiences. -
Babe Ruth 60
New York Yankees star Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season, breaking his own record of 59. Ruth's record will stand for more than thirty years. -
The Jazz Singer
Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, the first "talking" motion picture, premieres, marking the beginning of the end of the silent film era. -
Mickey Mouse
Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie premieres, introducing the world to a new animated character—Mickey Mouse. -
Stock-Market Crash
The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaks in September 1929 at 381.17—a level that it will not reach again until 1954. The Dow will bottom out at a Depression-era low of just 41.22 in 1932.
