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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. -
Newland Reclamation Act
United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West. -
The Great Migration
African-Americans move out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between (1915-1960) -
Ratification of The 18th Amendment
The amendment that banned the sale and drinking of alcohol -
Warren Gamaliel Harding Becomes President
Was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923. At the time of his death, he was one of the most popular presidents, but the subsequent exposure of scandals that took place under his administration, such as Teapot Dome, eroded his popular regard, as did revelations of an affair by Nan Britton, one of his mistresses. In historical rankings of the U.S. presidents, Harding is often rated among the worst. -
Emergency Quota Act
This legislation restricted new immigration to 3 percent of the number of residents per year from their country of origin already living in the United States. -
The Washington Naval Conference
A military conference called by U.S. President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington, D.C., from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922. -
Claud McKay's Harlem Shadow is published
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Teapot Dome Scandal Erupts
After Pres. Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921, Fall secretly granted to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome (Wyoming) reserves (April 7, 1922). -
Calvin Coolidge Becomes President
30th president of the United States that was a Republican lawyer from Vermont. Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. Soon after, he was elected as the 29th vice president in 1920 and succeeded to the presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. -
Congress Passes National Origins Act
A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s. -
Scope Trials Begin
Was an American legal case in May 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
Lindbergh Completes First Solo Transatlantic Flight
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Kellogg-Briand Pact Signed
A 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them. -
Herbert Clark Hoover Becomes President
Was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.