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Woodrow WIlson is inaugurated as president.
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The Panama Canal opens
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Jeanette Rsnkin is the first woman to ever be elected into the House of Represenatives.
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An armistice is signed, ceasing the fighting and ending World War I, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month on the eleventh hour.
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League of nations holds their first meeting. the US is not represented.
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The 18th amendment prohibited the sale, transportation, and manufactuing of alcohol.
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The 19th amendment to the constitution is ratified and women now have the right to vote.
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The Palmer raids were a search for communists driven by the red scare.
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Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as president.
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Established the maximum number of people that could enter the US from each foreign country.
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Two immigrants convicted of robbery and murder. They were eletricuted.
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President Harding dies in office and his VP, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th president of the US.
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"The House that Babe Ruth built"
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F. Scott Fitzgerald published the Great Gatsby.
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24 year old John Scopes was convited of teaching evolution in school.
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First person to fly solo across the atlantic ocean.
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Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as President.
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Walt Disney creates the animated character Mickey Mouse
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The stock market crashes.
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Al Capone's gang murder 7 Bugs Moran gang members in Chicago.
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43,000 marchers with 17,000 World War I veterans. Marches for a bonus for veterans.
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Franklin Roosevelt is inagurated as President
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Repeals prohibition stated in the 18th amendment.