US History

By zeuss43
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    The Roaring 20s

  • The League of Nations holds its first meeting

    accomplishes the rafitification of the Treaty of Versailles, ending the hostilities of the first World War. Nine days later the United States Senate votes against joining the League.

  • 18th amendment prohibits the sale and use of alcohol

    The 18th amendment banned drinking, but was repealed in the 1930s

  • 19th amendment: Women are given the right to vote

  • Warren G. Harding wins the presidency.

    First election women had the right to vote in. He is a Republican

  • 1920 census showed over 100 million population

    For the first time, the 1920 census indicated a population in the United States over 100 million people. The 15% increase since the last census now showed a count of 106,021,537. The geographic center of the United States population still remained in Indiana, eight miles south-southeast of Spencer, in Owen County.

  • national quota system on amount of immigrants established

    A national quota system on the amount of incoming immigrants was established by the United States Congress in the Emergency Quota Act, curbing legal immigration.

  • proposal for a trail along the Allegheny Mountain ridges

    The proposal for a trail along the Allegheny Mountain ridges is put forward by regional planner Benton MacKaye. The trail stretches from Maine to Georgia.

  • First Miss America

    The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It is won by Margaret Gorman for the title of the Golden Mermaid trophy, later dubbed Miss America.

  • The Limitation on Armaments Congress convened

    The Limitation on Armaments Congress convened in Washington, D.C.

  • Reader's digest is founded

    February 5: Reader's Digest is founded and the first issue published by Dewitt and Lila Wallace.

  • The Armaments Congress ends

    The Armaments Congress ends. It would lead to an agreement, the Five Power Disarmament Treaty, between the major world powers of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States, to limit naval construction, outlaw poison gas, restrict submarine attacks on merchant fleets and respect China's sovereignty.

  • Teapot Dome scandal begins

    The Teapot Dome scandal begins when the U.S. Secretary of the Interior leases the Teapot Oil Reserves in Wyoming.

  • Time Magazine is published

    Time Magazine is published for the first time.

  • first sound on film motion picture is shown

    The first sound on film motion picture "Phonofilm" is shown in the Rivoli Theatre in New York City by Lee de Forest.

  • President Warren G. Harding dies in office

    President Warren G. Harding dies in office after becoming ill following a trip to Alaska, and is succeeded by his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge.

  • First Winter Olympic Games

    The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France with sixteen nations sending athletes to participate

  • Indians designated at citizens

    All Indians are designated citizens by legislation passed in the U.S. Congress and signed by President Calvin Coolidge. The Indian Citizenship Act granted this right to all Native Americans that had been born within the territory of the United States.

  • Calvin Coolidge wins his first election as President

  • Nellie Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor

    January 5- Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming.

  • Radiovision is born.

    June 13- Radiovision is born. The precursor to television is demonstrated by Charles Francis Jenkins when he transmits at 10 minute film of synchronized pictures and sound for five miles from Anacostia to Washington, D.C. to representatives of the United States government.

  • Monkey Trial begins

    July 10- The Scopes Trial or "Monkey Trial" begins and would later convict John T. Scopes of teaching Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory at a Dayton, Tennessee high school, which violated Tennessee law. He is fined $100 for the charge.

  • Robert Goddard demonstrated first liquid fueled rockets

    March 16, 1926 - Robert H. Goddard demonstrated the viability of the first liquid fueled rockets with his test in Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket flew one hundred and eighty-four feet over 2.5 seconds.

  • first flight to the North Pole and back occurs

    The first flight to the North Pole and back occurs when pilot Floyd Bennett, with Richard Evelyn Byrd as his navigator, guided a three-engine monoplane. They were awarded the Medal of Honor for their achievement.

  • NBC Radio Network is formed

    November 15, 1926 - The NBC Radio Network is formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, opening with twenty-four stations.

  • Television becomes successful

    Television begins to emerge when American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented a complete electronic television system, its first success in 1927. The system would be patented three years later on August 26, 1930.

  • gigantic sculpture at Mount Rushmore began

    Work on the gigantic sculpture at Mount Rushmore began. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum would complete the task of chiseling the busts of four presidents; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, fourteen years later.

  • talking pictures emerge

    The advent of talking pictures emerges. Al Jolson in the Jazz Singer debuts in New York City.

  • irst appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse on film

    May 15, 1928 - The first appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse on film occurs with the release of the animated short film, "Plane Crazy".

  • Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly over Atlantic

    June 17, 1928 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Herbert Hoover wins presidential election

    November 6, 1928 - Herbert Hoover wins election as President of the United States with an Electoral College victory, 444 to 87 over Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith, the Catholic governor of New York.

  • Martin Luther King is born

    January 15, 1929 - Future Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is born in his grandfather's house in Atlanta, Georgia.

  • Stock Market Crash

    October 29, 1929 - Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash. The plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history. (Photo below) On the New York City docks, out of work men during the Great Depression, an outcome of the Stock Market crash of 1929 after the prosperous decade of the 1920's. Photo: Federal Works Agency, circa 1934.

  • Teapot Dome Scanda ends

    November 1, 1929 - The Teapot Dome scandal comes to a close when Albert B. Fall, the former Secretary of the Interior, is convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe for leasing the Elk Hills naval oil reserve. He is sentenced to one year in jail and a $100,000 fine.