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19th amendment ratified
On August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment was ratified. This amendment officially allowed women the right to vote! The ratification took place in August, the first state to ratify this amendment was Wisconsin, and Tennessee was the last. -
Immigration Quotas
After WWI, the increase of immigration in the United States was at an all time high. Many Americans started to resent immigrants and wanted them out of the country. Americans did not want the spread of religion, culture, and did not want any immigrants taking their jobs. The government started to create quotas in order to limit the intake of immigrants. -
Flapper Culture
In 1922, women started to break away from the stereotype that was placed upon them. Women wanted to express their new founded freedom and become more independent from men. During the flapper revolution many women decided they wanted more out of their lives than being housewives and having children. -
Yankee Stadium Opens
April 18, 1923 the Yankee Stadium officially opened with the Yankee's first game against the Boston Red Sox. It took 11 months and $2.5 million dollars to build the stadium, it is said that approximately 99,200 fans showed up the opening day! Babe Ruth hit the fist home run in the stadium, and the Yankees won 4-1 against the Red Sox. -
Macy's FIRST Thanksgiving parade
The first Macy’s Thanksgiving parade took place on Thanksgiving day in 1924, the parade is a well known event in today’s time. The parade is now displayed in New York City every Thanksgiving, but it began in Newark, New Jersey by a man named Louis Bamberger. Before the floats became the staple for the parade, zoo animals were used as the decorations for the crowd. -
Scopes "Monkey Trial"
The Scopes "Monkey Trial" was a court case in July of 1925 against the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scope. Scopes was a science teacher that was accused of teaching evolution in his class, violating the Tennessee state law. The law stated that no science teachers were allowed to teacher evolution, as it has no correlation to the bible. The trial came to a verdict and decided Scopes was found gulity. -
Rudolph Valentino dies
America’s heartthrob Rudolph Valentino died on August 23, 1926. Valentino was a well know actor and starred in many silent movies, he was known as “Latin Lover”. Whenever he passed away, women were hired to show up at his funeral to sob and cause a scene to add a more dramatic effect about his death. -
Babe Ruth's 60th homerun
On September, 30 1927 Babe Ruth hit his 60th homerun, which would be the highest record for 39 years. It was the last game of the season and Ruth was up against Tom Zachery of the Washington Senators during the eighth inning of the game. Ruth hit more homeruns than the entire Red Sox team in the next 10 of the 12 seasons. During Ruth's career with the Yankees the team won four world series and seven American League pennants. -
Hoover wins Pres.
In November of 1928, Herbert Hoover won the presidential election. Hoover was a republican candidate, winning at 444 electoral votes. He served as the 31st president in the United States during the Great Depression, before he became president he was a engineer, businessman and politician. -
Wall Street Crash
The Wall Street Crash, also known as the Stock Market Crash took place on October 29,1929. It lasted 5 days, shared prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. American's freaked out about the events that happened and the crash eventually began the start of the Great Depression.
