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18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. This amendment was repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933. In the over 200 years of the constitution, the 18th Amendment remains the only one that has ever been repealed. -
Lenin and the Communist State/ Red scare
Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks established a new Communist State. Waving their red flags, they cried out for a worldwide revolution that would end capitalism everywhere. A Communist party formed in the U.S. Several dozen bombs were mailed to government and business leaders, the public grew fearful that the Communistwere taking over U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer took action to combat this "Red Scare." -
19th Amendment ratified
The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Beginning in the 1800s, women organized, petitioned, and picketed to win the right to vote, but it took them decades to accomplish their purpose. This changed the face of the American electorate forever. -
Volstead Act
The Volstead Act enabled the United States government to enforce the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, and is formally known as the National Prohibition Act. The Act made it illegal to produce, import, export, distribute or sell alcoholic beverages. -
Palmer Raids
The Palmer Raids involved mass arrests and deportation of radicals at the height of the post World War I era red scare. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer encouraged the raids in the hope that they would advance his presidential ambitions. -
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Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian men charged for killing two men in a payroll robery. Police didn't have evidence that they did it; in fact, they switched the pistols found at the crime scene to the ones the two men owned just to make them guilty. The two men lied about being anarchists. A Portuguese gangster confessed to the crime, but he was ignored. Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty and executed. -
Teapot Dome Afair
The government set aside oil-rich public lands at Teapot Dome, Washington and Elk Hills, California. Albert B. Fall created private oil companies that he claimed that they were the government's property, but he wound up with $400,000 in "loans, bonds, and cash." Later he was conviceted of a felony because of bribery. -
National Origins Act
This Act restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and practically excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States. This act instituted admission quotas by using the 1890 census to determine the population of a particular nationality group; the government then only allowed 2 percent of that population into the nation. The National Origins Act drastically lowered the annual quota of immigration. Congress abolished this act in the 1960's. -
Scopes Trial
John Thomas Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was arrested for violating an act of the state legislature which prohibited the teaching of evolution in schools. The jury found John Thomas Scopes guilty and the judge fined him $100. This was also known as the monkey trial. -
Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic
At 7:52 A.M., Charles Lindbergh gunned the engine of the "Spirit of St Louis" and aimed it down the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Filled with much fuel, the plane bounced down the muddy field and gradually became airborne. Thirty three and one half-hours and 3,500 miles later he landed in Paris, the first to fly the Atlantic alone. -
1st talking movie, The Jazz Singer is released
Created by the Warner Brothers, The Jazz Singer was the first movie that a person talked in it. This movie was a major step up from the movies that just had synchronized music in them. When the first lines were spoken, the audience stood up and applauded -
Herbert Hoover elected president
Hoover was elected on his promise of continued prosperity for America. Unfortunately, almost immediately upon his arrival in office, Hoover was faced with the stock market crash that began the Great Depression -
Stock Market Crash
On this morning stock prices plummeted. Vast numbers of people were selling their stocks. On "Black Thursday," 12.9 million shares were sold which was double the previous record. Four days later, the stock market fell again.