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Prohibition begins which is when the sale, manufacturer, and transportation of alcohol was banned (18th amendment) -
The US fails to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and joins the UN -
The 19th amendment was passed and no US citizen can be denied to vote -
Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act of 1921 provided federally financed instruction in maternal and infant health care -
Secretary of state Charles Evans Hughes initiated talks on naval disarmament, hoping to stabilize the size of the US navy -
Representative Joseph W Fordney and senator Porter J McCumber guided this legislation through congress. Tariffs raised above the level set in 1913 and also authorized the president to raise or lower a given tariff rate by 50% in order to even out production costs. -
Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the US concluded an agreement that intended to slow the Naval arms race and reduce the chance for future wars. -
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the US through a national origins quota. -
Dawes Plan was an attempt to collect war reparations from Germany .After five years it showed to be unsuccessful and pointless. -
John Scopes challenged the states ban on teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools. -
The march in Washington DC 35,000 KKK members preached Americanism based on racism, anti-catholicism, anti-communism, nativism, and anti-semitism. -
The trial of Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti was a highly politicized dispute -
The General Treaty for the Renunciation of war focused on trying to outlaw war between Italy, Japan, Germany, UK, France, and the US. This is also known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact. -
Four men (supposedly part of Al Capone's gang) went into a warehouse, where they then open fired on the Morans and killed seven. -
Increased use of buying stocks "on margin" caused the stock market crash, which devastated the economy and is one of the leading factors into the Great Depression.