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On Stone Mountain in Georgia, Colonel Simmons and 34 followers founded the Klan. They only allowed white, native born, gentile Americans to join. The group opposed Jews, Catholics, blacks, and aliens. They were mostly Anglo-Saxon Protestant men.
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Over Wilson's veto, Congress enacted a literacy test that reduced the number of immigrants allowed into the United States.
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Congress passes the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Federal Agents directed by Attorney General Palmer seized suspected anarchists and communists. They held them for deportation and with no regard for the due process of the law.
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The first and most extreme outbreak of national alarm was known as the Red Scare. it was a wave of anticommunist, antiforeign, and antilabor hysteria that had traveled over America at the end of WWI. The Red Scare resulted in the deportation of many alien residents and the violation of the civil liberties of many of its victims.
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The Volstead Act was effective as of 1920 and banned most commercial production and distribution of beverages containing more than one-half percent of alcohol.
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Women gained the right to vote through the 19th amendment which stated it illegal to deny someone the right to vote on the basis of gender.
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Republicans regained the White House once the election of 1920 resulted in Warren Harding behing president.
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As people found more free time in their day, sports grew. Golf boomed, boxing grew along with baseball and football. More than 20 million spectators attended games in 1927.
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Congress passes the act to restrict immigration from Europe to 3% of the number of nationals from each country living in the United States in 1910. The act failed to satisfy the nativists.
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Social Feminists won support for the enactment of the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921. The Act provided for federal aid to establish state programs for maternal and infant health care.
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The Teapot Dome Scandal was when two oil promoters gave Albert Fall nearly $400,000 in loans and bribes. In return, he helped them secure leases on naval reserves in California and Wyoming. Fall served a year in jail and the reputation of Harding's administration never recovered.
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The National Women's Party succeeded in having an Equal Rights Amendment introduced to Congress in 1923. The amendment stated that men and women should have equal rights.
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Held in Madison Square garden, the convention was where the split within the Democratic party occured. It was a roughhouse where fighting continued for hours and nine days later, the delegates divided between Alfred Smith and William McAdoo.
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Congress adopted the NOQ Act which limited immigration from Europe to 150,000 a year, it also allocated available slots to immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia. it banned all Asian immigrans as well.
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Calvin Coolidge wins the election of 1924, he was a Republican who won with over 15 million votes compared to Davis's 8 million and La Follette's 4 million.
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When high school biology teacher John Scopes was accused of violatingTennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution, the Scopes Trial begun. Clarence Darrow supported Scopes while William Jennings Bryan called for the prosecution of him.
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Charles Lindbargh made the first nonstop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris
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The nomination of Al Smith for the Democratic candidate indicated the growing power of the city. The Republican choice was Herbert Hoover who won the election with 21 million votes.
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Urban resistance towards the banning of alcohol led to the repeal of prohibition. There were more illegal operations occuring because of the ban so it was time for it to end.
