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The Red Scare was a distinct period of anticommunism in America, after the Bolshevik Revolution created a small communist party in the United States.
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Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920.
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This book life at Princeton among the post–World War I lost generation.
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The first radio broadcast was by KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pa.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a time when a group of talented African-American writers and muscians became prominent.
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Prohibition was the period in United States history in which the manufacture, sale , and transportation of liquor was outlawed.
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The Emergency Quota Act limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 3% of the number of immigrants currently in the United States
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Harding established the Bureau of the Budget during the Great Depression
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These immigrants and anarchists were tried and found guilty of robbery and murder of a paymaster and a guard at a shoe factory, but many believe they were convicted for their anarchist beliefs
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Babbitt is a novel by Sinclair Lewis that satires American culture, society, behavior, and critiques the nothingness of middle-class.
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The Waste Land is a more than 400 line poem by T.S. Eliot
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In 1923 the Equal Rights Amendment was proposed.
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Also known as "talkies", talking movies were the first films to incorporate dialouge.
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This Act was designed to limit the entry of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe.
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Women dressed in the flapper style wore short hemmed dressed, rolled their stocking, rouged their cheeks and cut their hair short.
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The Scopes Trial was a landmark case in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of vteaching evoulution in the class room (against Tennessee law).
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Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic Solo.
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This treaty attempted to outlaw war at the close of World War I.
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The massacre, orchestrated by Al Capone, left seven unarmed men of a rival gang killed in cold blood.
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The 1929 Stock Market Crash is well known as the most devastating crash in United States history.
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Roosevelt defeats Hoover for the presidency.
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This Act was designed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. This act allows only Federal Reserve-approved banks to operate in the United States of America.
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The act permitted the sale of beer and wine with an alcohol content of less than 3.2% by volume. This was a relaxation of prohibition during the Great Depresssion.
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During the first hundred days of FDR's presidency, he and congress passed several acts and created many programs in effort to pull the US out of the great depression.
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This Act requires that "any offer or sale of securities using the means and instrumentalities of interstate commerce be registered with the SEC pursuant to the 1933 Act, unless an exemption from registration exists under the law"
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The Glass-STegall Banking Reform Act was a law that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and created some banking reform against speculation.
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The CIvil Works Administration was established during the New Dealand gave temporary manual labor jobs to the unemployed.
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The 20th Amendment changed the calender of congressional sessions and date of presidential inauguration.
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21st Amendment repealed prohibition.
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FDR closed all banks in the United States for four days and these banks could only reopen after being inspected by the federal government.
