1921-1941

By AudreyGalindo

  • 1921 Presidency Election

    Warren G. Harding elected as 29th president.

  • Emergency Quota Act

    Immigration act that was formed to prevent Jewish citizens from coming into the United States.

  • Coolidge Presidency

    Vice President Coolidge becomes the 30th President.

  • Presidency Election

    Calvin Coolidge elected president for a full term, Charles G. Dawes elected vice president

  • Scopes Trial

    whose outcome found that the teaching of evolution in the classroom "does not violate church and state or state religion laws but instead, merely prohibits the teaching of evolution on the grounds of intellectual disagreement"

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

    signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts.

  • 1928 Presidency

    U.S. presidential election, 1928: Herbert C. Hoover elected president and Charles Curtis vice president

  • Amelia Earhart

    Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • 1929 Presidency

    Herbert C. Hoover becomes the 31st President, Charles Curtis becomes the Vice President

  • Immigration Act

    Prohibits illegal immigration.

  • Great Depression

    Great Depression begins.

  • Stock Market Crashes

    Wall Street crashes.

  • New Deal

    Roosevelt's beginning to creating a new role in the federal government.

  • Bank Holiday

    National bank holiday created by Roosevelt in the Great Depression era.

  • SEC

    SEC created.

  • Social Security Act

    Social Security Act granted to help the unemployed.

  • Roosevelt's Re-election

    Roosevelt is reelected.

  • End of Great Depression

    Relief from Great Depression is in America's grasp

  • Roosevelt's 3rd Term

    Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected president to a record third term, Henry A. Wallace is elected vice president

  • World War 2

    United States enters World War 2

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, US responds.