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18th Amendment
Prohibited manufacturing, selling, or transportating intoxicated liquors. -
Volstead Act
established a Prohibition Bureau in the Treasury Department. It turned out the agency was underfunded. -
Palmer Raids
Anti-Communist panic that swept the nation. U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and president Herbert Hoover hunted down suspected communists, socialists and anarchists. -
Red Scare
(mostly) Bolsheviks waved a flag symbolizing their communism. They sent the government bombbs and abolished slavery everywhere. -
19th Amendment Ratified
This Amendment gave woman the right to vote. Enforced on August 18, 1920. -
Charles Lindbergh Crosses the Atlantic
Nade the first trans-Atlantic flight in the "Spirit of St. Louis" -
Teapot Dome Affair
Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall's secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land. -
National Origins Act
Established immigration quotas that discriminated people from outside western Europe. This Act set a quota of about 150,000 people. -
Scopes Trial
Tennessee passed a law making evolution, illegal to teach. John T. Scpes fought this law/ -
1st Talking movie, The Jazz Singer is released
The Jazz Singer is the first movie with sound. The first animated movie with sound is Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie. -
Herbert Hoover elected president
Favored government policies that would keep taxes down and business profits up. Elected in 1928 and blamed for the Great Depression. -
Stock Market Crash
16.4 million dollars was lost in the stock market. Now the folks that had stock were in huge debts.