1919-1929 Timeline

By Rachel Nicholson :)

  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment
    Amendment that outlawed the selling, buying and manuracturing of and liquor drink in the United States.

  • Lenin and the Communist State/Red Scare

    Lenin and the Communist State/Red Scare
    A period of time in the 1920's where everyone was afraid of communism.

  • Palmer Raids

    Palmer Raids
    The jailing and deportation of communists, socialists and anarchistic foreign-borns.

  • Volstead Act

    Volstead Act
    Act that enforced the 18th ammendment and established prohibition in the United States

  • Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

    Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
    Two forign-born men accused of killing factory workers who were found guilty and sentenced to death.

  • 19th Ammendment

    19th Ammendment
    Gave women the right to vote

  • Teapot Dome Affair

    Teapot Dome Affair
    Oil in the U.S. was being set aside for the U.S. navy

  • National Origins Act

    National Origins Act
    Excluded all Asain Americans and made it even more difficult for foreigners to get into the U.S.

  • Scopes Trial

    Scopes Trial
    Went to jail for teaching students about evolution

  • Charles Lindbergh Crosses the Atlantic

    Charles Lindbergh Crosses the Atlantic
    made the first nonstop, solo air plane flight across the Atlantic

  • 1st Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer, is Released

    1st Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer, is Released
    first feature-lenght motion picture to be released in the silent film era

  • Herbert Hoover is Elected President

    Herbert Hoover is Elected President
    31st president, easily won the republican vote

  • Stock Mardet Crash

    Stock Mardet Crash
    After WWI the key factor of the great depression