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Sacco and Vanzetti Aressted
Sacco and Vanzetti were accused and arrested for armed robbery and murder. Though they weren't proved to be guilty they were soon sentenced to death. In 1977, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis stated that they had been treated unjustly. -
KDKA Goes on the Air From Pittsburg
The KDKA is a radio station in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania owned by CBS radio. KDKA was considered the first commercail radio in the world. -
1st Miss American Pageant
Miss America is now a Scholarship Pageant that is held yearly and is open to women from the United States. In the 1920's the Newspaper was looking for more ways to increase their circulation so they held a photographis popularity contest which leads to Miss America Pageant we know today. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place between 1921 and 1922. Albert B. Fall, who was the secretary of the interior in President Warren G. Harding’s cabinet, is found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office for the oil under the "teapot rock" that was already owned by the U.S Navy. Fall was the first individual to be convicted of a crime committed while a presidential cabinet member. -
1st Winter Olympics Held
The Winter Olympics was also called the Winter Olympic games, which was a multi-sport event held in Chamonix, France in 1924. This event was so popular among the 16 nations that participated they decided to keep the Winter Olympics, returning every four years from January 25, 1924. -
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby was a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. This novel was known as Fitzgerald's best written novel which created a portrait of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a warning, regarding the American Dream. The American economy rose, bringing unknown levels of success to the nation. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Monkey Trial, or also known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes was a legal case in which a substitute teacher, John Scopes, was accused of teacher human evolution in public schools. This began a big controversy between modernists fundamentalists. Should evolution be taught in schools? -
Charles Lindberg Completes Solo Flight Across the Atlantic
Charles Lindberg was an American pilot. He was the first person to complete a trip across the Atlantic ocean by himself, nonstop. Others completed the trip, but not alone or nonstop. -
The Jazz Singer Debuts
The Jazz Singer was a mostly silent movie, but it represented the technology that was now available to them and generations to come. The Jazz Singer, was released as a feature-length movie on October 6, 1927, it was the first movie that included dialogue and music on the filmstrip itself. -
St. Valentines Day Massacre
Valentine's Day in 1929 was one of the bloodiest days in mob history when 7 men were gunned down in Chicago. Al Capone rose to power after a rival gang was broken as a result of the killings. -
Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)
Black Tuesday was the biggest stock market crash in American history. Wall Street investors traded about 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange one day. Things didn't work as planned and billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. This was one of the reasons that the United States went into the Great Depression.
