Chapter 25

  • Palmer Raids

    Palmer Raids

  • Eighteenth Amendment ratified

    Eighteenth Amendment ratified

  • U.S. agents arrest 1,700 people in Red Scare raids

    U.S. agents arrest 1,700 people in Red Scare raids

  • Nineteenth Amendment passed

    Nineteenth Amendment passed

  • WWJ-Detroit broadcasts first commercial radio program

    WWJ-Detroit broadcasts first commercial radio program

  • Transcontinental airmail service inaugurated

    Transcontinental airmail service inaugurated

  • Budget Bureau set up to oversee federal spending

    Budget Bureau set up to oversee federal spending

  • Sheppard-Towner Act enacted

    Sheppard-Towner Act enacted

  • Newspapers expose Ku Klux Klan

    Newspapers expose Ku Klux Klan

  • Henry Luce publishes Time magazine

    Henry Luce publishes Time magazine

  • Senate probes Teapot Dome scandal

    Senate probes Teapot Dome scandal

  • National Origins Quota Act

    National Origins Quota Act

  • Verteran's WWI bonus bill passed

    Verteran's WWI bonus bill passed

  • Scopes Trial

    Scopes Trial

  • First Martha Graham modern dance recital

    First Martha Graham modern dance recital

  • First nonstop flight from New York to Paris

    First nonstop flight from New York to Paris

  • Sacco and Vanzetti executed

    Sacco and Vanzetti executed

  • Coolidge vetoes farm price-control bill

    Coolidge vetoes farm price-control bill

  • The Jazz Singer, features singing-talking soundtrack

    The Jazz Singer, features singing-talking soundtrack

  • Herbert Hoover wins election

    Herbert Hoover wins election