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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian-Americans, were convicted of robbery and murder it's important because it reflected our fears of immigration, immigrant crime, and anarchy. -
the first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh, which went on the air on the evening of Nov. 2, 1920, with a broadcast of the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election. -
she was designed to encourage visitors to stay in the resort past Labor Day, the traditional end of the season. -
The Teapot Dome scandal unfolded in the 1920s during the presidency of Warren Harding. It remains one of the most shocking stories of government corruption. -
In 1921, the International Olympic Committee gave its patronage to a Winter Sports Week to take place in 1924 in Chamonix, France. it's important because the Winter Olympics is the premier competition for sports that are played on ice or snow. -
the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan. The story shows the societal decadence due to the overall prosperity. -
The Scopes monkey trial was the moniker journalist H. L. Mencken applied to the 1925 prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools. -
Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. -
It was the first feature-length film to include a synchronized recorded music score accompanied by lip-synced singing It was important during the '20s because The Jazz Singer radically hastened the end of silent cinema. -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the mass murder of a group of unarmed bootlegging gang members in Chicago on February 14, 1929. The bloody incident dramatized the intense rivalry for control of illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition era in the United States. -
When stock prices started to slide on October 29, people rushed to sell their stock and get out of the market, which drove prices down even further. The market crash ended the period of economic growth and prosperity and led to the Great Depression. Black Tuesday triggered a chain of catastrophic macroeconomic events in the US and Europe, which included mass bankruptcies and unemployment, and dramatic declines in production and money supply.