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Prohibition- 18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
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21st Amendment
The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on. The Twenty-first Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933. -
19th amendment
The 19th amendment is a very important amendment to the constitution as it gave women the right to vote in 1920. -
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. -
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Warren G. Harding's presidency
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923. -
Sacco and Vanzetti
sacco and vanzetti in Culture Expand. Sacco and Vanzetti were Two anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were convicted of a robbery and two murders in Massachusetts in the early 1920s and sentenced to death. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; however, in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. -
quota system
a system, determined by legislation in 1921, of limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year. 2. a policy of limiting the number of minority group members in a business firm, school, etc. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. -
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Calvin Coolidge's presidency
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. -
Route 66 Completed
U.S. Route 66, also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways within the U.S. Highway System. -
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Herbert Hoover's presidency
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday refers to October 29, 1929, when panicked sellers traded nearly 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange , and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell -12%. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon. -
bonus army
The Bonus Army was the assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. -
Hitler takes power in Germany
After months of negotiations, the president of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg, will appoint Hitler chancellor of Germany in a government seemingly dominated by conservatives on January 30, 1933. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. -
1st Fireside Chat
Fireside chats is the term used to describe a series of 30 evening radio conversations (chats) given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944. -
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The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of social liberal programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. -
The 2nd New Deal
The first major legislation that Roosevelt and Congress passed in the Second New Deal,l in response to the critics, was the Works Progress Administration (WPA). -
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Red Scare & Communist Hunt
The Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism.
