CH 25 HISTORY

  • KKK is formed

    KKK is formed
    colonel simmons and 34 followers created the modern day Klu Klux Klan.
  • literacy test

    literacy test
    limited the immigration from europe.
  • 18th ammendment

    18th ammendment
    prohibits the creation and sale of recreation alcohol.
  • volstead act

    volstead act
    prohibited sale of all drinks containing more than %.5 of alcohol.
  • 19th ammendment

    19th ammendment
    the 19th ammendment giving women the rights to vote goes into effect.
  • italian arrest

    italian arrest
    Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are arrested on charges of murder and robbery.
  • revolutionary play

    revolutionary play
    The Jazz Singer debuts as the first talking picturethis is the end for silent movies.
  • seceret model A

    seceret model A
    production of the model A, the model t's successor, is started.
  • einstein

    einstein
    Albert Einstein lectures in New York about his theory of relativity.
  • Sheppard-Towner Act

    Sheppard-Towner Act
    provided aid to set up maternal and child care.
  • harding dies

    harding dies
    President Harding dies of an embolism after suffering ptomaine poisoning followed by pneumonia
  • coolidge sworn in

    coolidge sworn in
    calvin coolidge sworn in as president due to hardings death.
  • National Origins Quota Act

    National Origins Quota Act
    restricts immigration and prohibits all immigration from asia.
  • great gatsby

    great gatsby
    F scott fitzgerald writes the all time popular the great gatsby.
  • scopes trial

    scopes trial
    john t. scopes was put on trisl for teaching the theories of evolution which violated the butler act.
  • lindberghs flight

    lindberghs flight
    charles lindbeg arrives in paris from new york.
  • executions

    executions
    nicola sacco and batolomeo vamzetti were exectued in the chair for a robbery and murder.
  • massacre

    massacre
    In the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre," six gangsters from the "Bugs" Moran mob and another man are gunned down in a Chicago garage
  • enforcment

    enforcment
    Enforcement of the the Immigration Act of 1924 begins
  • Prohibition repealed

    Prohibition repealed
    uprisings and protests called for the end of prohibition.