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Babe Ruth breaking baseball records
Ruth won 23 games in a season as a pitcher, a member of 3 World Series championship teams with the Red Sox. He broke the recorded in 1919. -
The Volstead Act
The Volstead Act enforced the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol beverages. It took effect in 1920. -
The Palmer Raids
The Palmer Raids were a series of government raids in the U.S. led by the U.S. Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer. They were highly unsuccessful in find radical communists. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, and politics. -
The Lost Generation
The Lost Generation showed the effects war has on people. “Lost" in this context refers to the "disoriented, wandering, directionless" of war survivors. -
American Red Scare
The first American Red Scare happened right after WW1. It was the deportation of several hundred immigrants by the federal government. -
Women get the vote
In 1918 the Representation of the People Act (19th Amendment) was ratified which allowed women over the age of 30 the rights to vote. -
Warren G. Harding
The 29th President of the U.S. and was a member of the Republican Party. He signed the Budget and Accounting Act, which established the country’s first budgeting process. It also created the Bureau of the Budget. -
Emergency Quota Act
The Emergency Quota Act established the nation's numerical limits on the number of immigrants who could enter the U.S. -
First Winter Olympic Games
The first Winter Olympics Game were held on January 25, 1924 at Chamonix in the French Alps. -
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Nellie Tayloe Ross was one of the first women to be a governor of a the Wyoming U.S. state. She remains as the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming. -
The Butler Act
The Butler Act was a Tennessee law prohibiting public schools teachers from denying the Biblical account of mankind's origin. -
Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial was an American legal case in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act. -
The Great Mississippi Flood
The Great Mississippi Flood was the most destructive river flood in the U.S. Hundreds of thousands of people were displace and about 250 died. -
First Transatlantic Flight
Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first, nonstop transatlantic flight in history. -
Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone, also known as “Scarface,” was an American gangster and a businessman. He was the leader of the Chicago Outfit before being sent to prison and was suspected for the Valentines’s Day Massacre. -
Valentine’s Day Massacre
The massacre was the murder of 7 members and associated of Chicago’s North Side Gang. They were gathered at a Lincoln Park garage on the morning of feast day. -
Black Thursday
Black Thursday happened when investors sent Dow Jones Industrial Avenge plunging 11% in very heavy volume. It also began the Wall Street crash. -
Wall Street Crash
The Wall Street Crash was a sharp decline in the U.S. stock market values. It left stocks in great excess of their real value.
