Roaring

The Roaring Twenties

By mattferguson

  • Palmer Raids

  • Volstead Act is enacted

  • Period: to

    Warren G. Harding is president

  • Immigration Restriction Act

  • Babe Ruth sets Most Home Run record

  • Period: to

    Calvin Coolidge is president

  • National Origins Quota Act

  • "Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is Published

  • Charlie Chaplin stars in the movie "The Gold Rush"

  • Scopes Trial

  • Ku Klux Klan marches on D.C.

  • Jack Dempsey finally loses his Heavyweight Title

  • "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway is Published

  • Clara Bow's "It" is released

  • Ford Model T reaches 15 million sold

  • Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti

  • Louis Armstrong releases "Muggles" (a recording of several pieces of his music)

  • St. Valentines Day Massacre

  • Period: to

    Herbert Hoover is president