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1920s and Prohibition

By yasminesanchez8
  • 1920

    1920

    19th Amendment = gave women the right to vote
  • 1921

    1921

    Warren Harding, President, 1921-1923
  • 1922

    1922

    Teapot Dome Scandal (government corruption
  • 1923

    1923

    Calvin Coolidge, President, 1923-1929
  • 1924

    1924

    National Origins Act limits immigration to U.S
  • 1925

    1925

    Scopes Trial in TN: Science and Religion
  • 1926

    1926

    the federal government increased the amount of methanol, a poisonous alcohol-based substance, required in industrial alcohols,
  • 1927

    1927

    The jazz singer, first talking movie
  • 1929

    1929

    Herbert Hoover enter the White House
  • 1933

    1933

    Nationwide Prohibition lasted from 1920 until 1933. The Eighteenth Amendment, which illegalized the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol, was passed by the U.S.