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Woodrow - Franklin
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Woodrow Wilson
4.A Serbian nationalist assassinates Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Serbia. (leading to start of WW1)
5.On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal opened to trans-oceanic traffic. Due to the outbreak of World War I earlier in the month, however, there was only modest commemoration and no official visit from President Woodrow -
Woodrow Wilson
1.The Ford Motor Company institutes the first automobile Assembly line to produce the Model T. Company founder Henry Ford breaks precedence and pays his line workers $5 a day, believing that higher wages would lead to greater worker productivity and loyalty
2.The Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is enacted, providing for the direct popular election of U.S. senators.
3. Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act, considerably reducing rates set by previous Republican administrations. -
Warren G. Harding
1.Harding signs the Emergency Quota Act into law, limiting the number of immigrants from any given country to 3 percent of that nationality already in the United States by 1910.
2.The Supreme Court unanimously finds the Nineteenth Amendment, providing for women's suffrage, constitutional.
3.Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall leases the Teapot Dome oil reserves to Harry Sinclair, setting in motion what comes to be known over the next two years as the Teapot Dome scandal -
Warren G. Harding
- Harding signs into law the creation of the Federal Narcotics Control Board. 5.On August 2, 1923, President Warren Harding died in San Francisco, California, while on a speaking tour. His death was most likely due to a heart attack.
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Calvin Coolidge
1.The Dawes Plan is signed by the United States, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Belgium to solve the German reparations problem
2.John T. Scopes, a public school teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, is arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. His trial in July captures national attention as William Jennings Bryan is called on behalf of the prosecution. -
Calvin Coolidge
3.The Ku Klux Klan holds a massive political demonstration in Washington, D.C. Possibly the largest Klan parade in history, around 40,000 men and women march down Pennsylvania Avenue decked out in their white Klan robes.
4. Coolidge signs the Revenue Act into law, as Harding's policy of “normalcy” morphs into keeping “cool with Coolidge.” With the goal of cutting the size of the Federal government, the Act reduces income taxes as well as other duties.
5.The Air Commerce Act is passed by Congress -
Herbert Hoover
4.Construction of the Hoover Dam begins in Las Vegas, Nevada; the dam will be completed in 1936.
5.Frank B. Kellogg is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in drafting the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact while secretary of state during the Coolidge administration -
Herbert Hoover
1.The construction contract for the Empire State Building is awarded. It will be completed in 1931
2.On “Black Thursday,” the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) experiences a collapse in stock prices as 13 million shares are sold.
3.A major bootlegging operation in Chicago is shut down with the arrest of 158 people from 31 organizations. Together, these groups were estimated to have distributed more than seven million gallons of whiskey nationwide with an estimated worth of around $50 million. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1.With unemployment hovering at around 14 million, Congress passes the Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA). It provides immediate grants to states for relief project, unlike Hoover's earlier proposals, which only provided loans.
2.FDR signs the Home Owners Loan Act, a bill designed to promote home construction
3.FDR signs the Social Security Act, which establishes the Social Security Board (SSB), one of the most far-reaching pieces of legislation in the country's history. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
4.Hindenburg exploded over New Jersey, killing 36.
5.President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans.
