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18th Amendment
Prohibits production, sal, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.
Consumption reduced -
Red Scare
a nation-wide anti-radical hysteria provoked by a mounting fear and anxiety that a Bolshevik revolution in America was imminent — a revolution that would change Church, home, marriage, civility, and the American way of Life. -
19th Amendment
prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's sex. -
WWJ
First Radio Commercial radio Program -
Transcontinental airmail
The Transcontinental airmail service was inaugurated in September -
Henry Luce
He begins writing Time Magazine -
KKK
Murders, and torture exposed in Newspapers -
Bonus Bill
Veteran's World War I bonus bill was passed -
Teapot Dome
an unprecedented bribery scandal and investigation during the White House administration of United States President Warren G. Harding. -
National Origins Act
Quotas were set for the number of immigrants that were allowed to come in -
Democratic Split
Urban-rual split weakened the Democrats
this was a major shift in political loyalties -
Scopes Trial
Discredited fundamentalism amoung intellectuals.
"Modernists" gained mainline churches, -
KKK
Membership hits 5 million -
Dance
First Martha Graham Dance recital -
Sacco and Vanzetti
Sacco and Vanzetti were executed -
Jazz
"The Jazz Singer" comes out with the first singing-talking soundtrack -
Charles Lindbergh
First flight completed over the atlantic to Paris -
Babe Ruth
He hit 60 homeruns -
Election of 1928
Hoover raigned over Smith.
Religion was the campaign's decisive issue -
18th Amendment Repealed
The 18th Amemndment was reapealed because it didnt work
