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The Roaring Twenties
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Ratification of 19th Amendment
The nineteenth amendment gave women the right to vote. This act helped give women more rights and privileges. It also gave them more freedom and encouraged women to decide for themselves. -
Harding elected President
Warren G. Harding was the presidential election of 1920 in blowout fashion. He became the 29th president of the United States of America. He defeated his opponent, James Cox, by a landslide, nearyly 7 million votes. He promised the American people "a return to normalcy." -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
This law raised rates on industrial goods and set higher levies on farm goods compared to the Emergency Tariff Act of 1921. It raised U.S. tariffs in order to protect American factories and farms. The bill was named after Joseph Fordney and Porter McCumber and it was signed by President Harding. -
President Harding Dies
On the night of August 2nd, 1920, Warren G. Harding passed away in his hotel room. The circumstances surrounding his death were mysterious and many conspiracies arose. He was buried in his home state of Ohio. President Harding was succeeded by his vice president, Calvin Coolidge. -
J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover graduated from college and immediatley got a job in the Justice Department. He then worked his way up the ladder over a span of a few years. He became the director of the Bureau of Investigation at age twenty-nine. He is credited with shaping and building the FBI into a efficient crime-fighting agency. He remained FBI director til his death in 1972. -
Scopes Trial
John T. Scopes was a teacher in Tennessee who was in a legal dispute involving the teaching of evolution. Scopes was found guilty and fined. However, the case verdict was later overturned due to a technicality. It revealed the aruments between religious groups and scientists. It is a conflict that still appears today. -
NBC is founded.
The company was founded by David Sarnoff and was owned by the RCA. It was first used as a radio network, but later became a commercial broadcasting television network. Later on, it would become one of the largest and most broadcasting networks in the United States. -
Lindbergh makes 1st trans-Atlantic flight.
At 7:52 a.m. Charles A. Lindbergh departed Roosevelt Field pilotting "the Spirit of Saint Louis." After thirty-three and one half ours had passed, he had covered a distance of thirty-five hundred miles. Lindbergh landed in Paris, France and was the first man to ever fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone in a nonstop flight. -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
On Valentine's Day of 1929 a massacre of seven mobsters took place in Chicago. The executioners were believed to be under the command of the notorious Italian mob boss, Al Capone. Capone was not arrested and the massacre will forever live in infamy. -
Wall Street Crash of 1929
The Great Crash of the stock market in 1929 was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. The crash signaled the beginning of the ten year Great Depression.
