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The Red Scare
The Red Scare was a distinct period of anticommunism in America, after the Bolshevik Revolution created a small communist party in the United States. -
“Main Street” is Published
Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. -
Fitzgerald publishes “This Side of Paradise”
This book life at Princeton among the post–World War I lost generation. -
Radio Broadcasting Begins
The first radio broadcast was by KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pa. -
Harlem Renaissance Begins
The Harlem Renaissance was a time when a group of talented African-American writers and muscians became prominent. -
Prohibition Begins in the U.S.
Prohibition was the period in United States history in which the manufacture, sale , and transportation of liquor was outlawed. -
Emergency Quota Act
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 -
Bureau of the Budget Created
Harding established the Bureau of the Budget during the Great Depression -
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
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 -
Lewis Published Babbitt
Babbitt is a novel by Sinclair Lewis that satires American culture, society, behavior, and critiques the nothingness of middle-class. -
Eliot publishes “The Waste Land”
The Waste Land is a more than 400 line poem by T.S. Eliot -
ERA Proposed
In 1923 the Equal Rights Amendment was proposed. -
Talking Movies Invented
Also known as "talkies", talking movies were the first films to incorporate dialouge. -
Immigration Act of 1924
This Act was designed to limit the entry of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. -
Flapper Dress Style
Women dressed in the flapper style wore short hemmed dressed, rolled their stocking, rouged their cheeks and cut their hair short. -
Scopes Trial
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). -
Lindbergh Crosses the Atlantic
Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic Solo. -
Kellogg-Briand Treaty
This treaty attempted to outlaw war at the close of World War I. -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
The massacre, orchestrated by Al Capone, left seven unarmed men of a rival gang killed in cold blood. -
Stock Market Crashes
The 1929 Stock Market Crash is well known as the most devastating crash in United States history. -
Election of 1932
Roosevelt defeats Hoover for the presidency. -
Emergency Banking Relief Act
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. -
Beer and WIne Revenue Act
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. -
HUndred Days Congress
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. -
Federal Securities Act
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" -
Glass-Stegall Banking Reform Act
The Glass-STegall Banking Reform Act was a law that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and created some banking reform against speculation. -
CWA Established
The CIvil Works Administration was established during the New Dealand gave temporary manual labor jobs to the unemployed. -
20th Amendment Passed
The 20th Amendment changed the calender of congressional sessions and date of presidential inauguration. -
21st Amendment Passed
21st Amendment repealed prohibition. -
Bank Holiday
FDR closed all banks in the United States for four days and these banks could only reopen after being inspected by the federal government.
