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The Anti-Saloon League, organization lobbying for prohibition, is formed.
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The 18th Admendment was passed which established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the U.S, including illegal transport, sale, and consumption of alcohol.
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The Treaty of Versailles was rejected by a group of senators, the Irreconcilables.
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The Seattle Strikes takes place which halts economic activity for five consecutive days.
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A new breed of women known as "Flappers" emerged; they were women who challenged gender stereotypes by dressing provactively, cutting their hair, and listening to jazz music. They believed that they could do whateven men could do.
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The Jazz Age emerges as "jazz" music and damces becomes popular.
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The Harlems Renaissance,a literary, social, and artistic movement, begins and will last a decade.
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The Palmer Raids, raids that were intended to capture, arrest, and deport racist leftists in the United States, began.
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The Steel Strike Ends by catipulation of steelworkers.
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The National Negro League is formed (Baseball).
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The overproduction of cotton leads to inflation of the prices; inflation will eventually lead to near-depression conditions for most farmers.
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The Garvey Conference was held; the first international Convention of African Americans of New York.
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Sinclair Lewis publishes "MainStreet."
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The Emergency Qouta Act of 1921 restricted the number of immigrants in the United States.
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"Shuffle Along" becomes the first major African American hit musical.
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The Fordney-McCumber Tarriff,which is a law that raises taxes on imported goods to protect factories and farms, is passed.
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T.S. Eliot publishes poem "The Waste Land."
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President Harding dies, vice president Calvin Coolidge ascends.
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The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds 1 billion, meaning more "common" people were able to and were buying Ford Motor vehicles.
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The National Immigration Act of 1924 limited the annual number of immigrants into the U.S from particular countries; the act set the annual quota of any nationality at 2% of the number of foreign-born people.
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The book entitled "The Man Nobody Knows" is published by Bruce Barton; it tries to portray Jesus as the founder of business.
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The American Negro Labor Congress is founded to promote civil rights and communist policies.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby."
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William Faulkner publishes "Soldier's Pay."
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Ernest Hemingway publishes the "The Sun Also Rises."
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The Harlem Globetrotters (not on Jan.7) are founded and they play their first game. (on Jan.7)
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Silent films were becoming very popular such as Buster Keaton's "The General," which is thought by some to be the greatest silent film ever produced.
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Philio T. Warnswort successfully demonstrates electronic television.
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Herbert Hoover is elected president.
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The Stock Market collapse which will trigger the Great Depression.
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Black Thursday marked the first day of actual panic as billions of dollars were lost and 12,894, 650 shares were traded.
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During Black Tuesday over 16 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange, billions of dollars were lost.
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The Dust Bowl begin as a severe drought hits the Souhern and Midwestern Plains, paving the way for "black blizzards" that will occur for the next 10 years.
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Herbert Hoover refused to provide the citizens with direct aid from the federal government because he believed that it would be ruinous for the country.
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Herbert Hoover founded government agencies, encouraged labor harmony, supported local aid for public works, fostered corporation between government and business in order to stabilize prices.
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The Civilian Conservation Corps sent 250,000 young men to work camps where they performed conservative tasks and reforestation.
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The Agriculrural Adjustment Act provided farmers with crop subsidies to reduce production, lowering crop surplus would essesntially raise the value of the crops.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority built a series of dams to provent flooding and to sell electricity.
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The Federal Emergency Relief Administration distributed millions of dollars of direct aid to unemployed workers.
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The Glass-Steagall Act or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation created federally insured bank deposits to prevent bank failure.
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The Public Works Administration budgeted billions of dollars for public work projects.
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The National Industrial Recovery Act was an attempt to raise prices after deflation and stimulate economic recovery.
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The Civil Works Administration provided public works jobs to four million workers.
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The Securities and Exchange Commision regulated the stock market.
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The Rural Electrification Administration encouraged farmers to bring electricity to their farms.
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The National Youth Administration provided employment to more than two million students, college and high school.
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The National Labor Relations Board allowed workers to join unions and prevented management from stopping them(Unions).
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The Social Security Administration provided pensions and unemployment insurance, and aid to blind, deaf, and disabled children.
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The Dust Bowl comes to an end as rain finally falls.
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President Roosevelt delivered his "Four Freedoms" speech which includes the freedom of religion.
