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18th Amendment
The 18th amendment along with the Volstead Act made it difficult to obtain alochol legally.It was not banned though. -
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Volstead Act
This Act was enabling legislation for the 18th Amenment which established prohibition in the United States.The reason this was called the Volstead Act was called that was because the Anti-Saloon leagues's Wayne Wheeler wrote and drafted the bill which was named after Andrew Volstead, chairman of the house of Judiciary comittee -
Palmer Raids
The Palmer Raids were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arret and deport left wing radicals especially anarchists from the US. These raids and arrests were under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. -
Teapot Dome affair
The Teapot Dome Affair was an unexpected bribery scandal and investigation during the White House administration of United States President Warren G. Harding. The teapot dome is an oil field on public land in Wyoming. Before the Watergate scandal, it was known as the greatest scandal in the history of American Politics. -
19th Amendment ratified
This amendment prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on their sex. This raised the numbers of voters but most women just voted for who there husband did. -
Lenin and the Communist State/Red Scare
This was an overreaction by many people. The first Red Scare was about a worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. This followed the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917. -
National Origins Act
This law put a restriction on immigrants. This established a system of national quotas that put a limt on immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe and basically excluded Asians. This was a law stayed until the 1960s. -
Scopes Trial
John Scopes was a high school biology teacher and was acccused of violating the state's Butler Act. This Act made it unlawful to teach evolution. He was found guilty but then realeased on a technicality. -
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Ferdinando Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were anarchist who were convicted of murdering two men in a 1920 armed robbery. They were executed even though the evidence they had wasnt very strong. -
Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic Ocean
Charles Linderbergh, nicknamed Lucky Lindy and the Lone Eagle was an American aviator,author,inventor,explorer, and social activist. At the time of his trip across the ocean he was 25 years old. He went from Garden City, New York to Le Bourget Field,Paris,France a distance of nearly 3,600 miles. This was in a single seat single engine monoplane. -
1st Talking movie, The Jazz Singer is realesed
The Jazz Singer is an American Musical film. This is the first movie that you could hear the talking. It was produced by Warner Bros. -
Herbert Hoover elected President
Herbert Hoover was elected as the 31st President of the United States. He was a author and a professional mining engineer. He easily won the Republican vote, even though having no former office experience. Also was blamed for the Stock Market Crash. -
Stock Market Crash
A Stock Market Crash is a huge decline of stock prices across a important cross-section of a stock market ending with a big loss of paper wealth. There is now a day known as Black Tuesday when the stock market started crashing.
