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Prohibition Of Alcohol
This law was enfoced to prevent people from selling and drinking it. At first people did not care for it, by the end, and they just wanted aaalcohol even more. There were more speakeasies, mobs, and more of sneaking alcohol. It all ended in 1933, becasue of people not liking it, and the frustration of the enforcement. -
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Important Events and Inventions of the 1920's
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Yankees Purchase Some Land For Yankee Stadium
The Yankees baseball team bought ten acres worth of land, so that they could have a place to play. It is now, known as Yankee Stadium. The land was sold to the Yankees for $675,000. -
Insulin Was Discovered
Frederick Banting thought he could find a cure for diabetes, so he tested it on dogs who had diabetes, which was in 1921. But it wasn't until later, on January 11, 1922, that it was used on a boy for the fist time because he had diabetes. Thank goodness for this discovery, because having diabetes today, is quite a common thing. Therefore, insulin is used so much to help diabetics. -
The Teapot Dome Scandal
The secretarty of interior was Albert Fall, and he was charged with taking bribes from higher paid oil workers. A man named Olman Harry Sinclair was able to drill to get oil at Teapot Dome, and a man named Edward Doheny was able to drill at Elk Hills. The secretary got $400,000 and gifts from these men, because he let them get the oil. The contract given to the men for th oil, came out in 1922. -
The Charleston Dance
There was a musical called "Runnin' Wild" back in 1923 that was shown on broadway. This is where the dance "The Charleston" started it's popularity. The dance was shown with the actual song called "Charleston". When looking at this dance, mainly the arms and feet would be used when moving. -
The First Olympic Winter Games
The winter games started on January 25th and went to February 5th of 1924. The games started in France. There were only 11 women, but there were 247 men. They were known as the International Winter Sports Week. -
The Monkey Trial
A man named John T. Scopes was a teacher, and he ended up talking about and teaching evolution in school. Back then it was illegal, so Scopes went to court. An attourney named Clarence Darrow was on his side. In the end, Scopes did have to pay a fine that came to $100. -
The Flapper Dress
Flapper dresses were what the women called "Flappers", would wear. They were a daring kind of women, they wore their clothes differently then other women. The dresses they wore were short to everyone, even though they just came a little above the knee. The waistline of their dresses ended at the hip. -
First Woman To Swim English Channel
A woman named Gertrude Ederle, swam the English Channel. She was the first woman to do this also. She had to swim 21 miles. She was also already the first woman to swim the New York Bay. She already tryed to swim the channel, but she never finished because the coach she had, thought she was taking in too much water. She ended up firing that coach, and hiring a new one. -
A.A. Milne Publishes Winnie The Pooh
The book "Winnie The Pooh" was first published in 1926 by a man named Alan Alexander Milne. What made him want to write these books, was seeing his boy and his boy's toy animals. A.A Milnes son is named Christopher Robin, and that's where he got the name for the little boy in Winnie The Pooh. All of the books of Winnie The Pooh are in more than 20 different languages. -
Sacco and Vanzetti Were Executed
Both Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrants, and they were against the government. So when a hold up at a factory came, a person watching mentioned that two people looked like they were Italian. So they were arrested. Later on, it was said that Sacco might have been guilty, and Vanzetti not. But yet they both died. -
First Talking Movie- The Jazz Singer
The first talking movie was "The Jazz Singer". The first showing of the movie was on October 6, 1927. The voice in the movie that was the only one to speak first, was a man named Al Jolson. His first words were, "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You aint heard nothin' yet!" -
Invention Of Double Bubble Bubble Gum
A man named Walter Diemer was the one who came out with the brand Double Bubble gum. This was not the first bubble gum to be invented, but it was made better by Walter. -
The Discovery Of Penicillin
Penicillin was discovered by a man named Alexander Fleming, through the process of accidentally finding it on a petri dish. He had some dishes soaking in lysol and he took some out to show someone. He saw that one looked different. He found out that the mold on the dish got rid of the bacteria on it. He then named the substance Penicillin, because it was a mold called Penicillium Mold. -
First Academy Awards
There were 250 people who attended these awards at a hotel. It was a quiet program. The guests who went to the awards weren't nervouse of curious as to who was going to win, because the winners were told 3 months before the awards. -
Stock Market Crashes- Black Tuesday
On this day, there apparently were alot of stocks to sell. Something called the "ticker", was now behind because of so much to sell. So, no one could sell off their stocks because so many people were selling stocks and not many people were even buying. So the prices went downhill. More then 16.4 million stocks had been sold.
