End of WWI - The Great Depression

By ashleymd

  • Formation of the NAACP

  • 18th amendment ratified

    Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages
    Prohibition led to the creation of "speakeasies", made intoxication fashionable, and created a new form of criminal activity -- "bootlegging"
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    Race riots in the US

  • 19th Amendment to the Constitution ratified

  • Wilson suffers severe stroke

  • Senate rejects the Versailles Treaty

  • Postal service intercepts nearly 40 bombs addressed to prominent citizens

  • Mass immigration resumes in the US

  • "Main Street" - Sinclair Lewis

  • Senate rejects the Versailles Treaty again

  • Fordney-McCumber Tariff

  • "The Beautiful and the Damned" - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • "Babbitt" - Sinclair Lewis

  • Period: to

    The US enjoys the strongest economy in its history

  • Calvin Coolidge takes office

  • Coolidge elected to office

  • Johnson-Reed National Origins Act

    Established national quotas for immigration

  • "The Great Gatsby" - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • John Scopes charged with violating anti-evolution laws in Tennessee

  • "The Sun Also Rises" - Ernest Hemingway

  • "A Farewell to Arms" - Ernest Hemingway

  • Wall Street Crash of 1929

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    The Great Depression

  • Hawley-Smoot Tariff

  • FDR wins presidential campaign

  • 21st amendment ratified - 18th amendment repealed