Dance History & U.S History 1920's-1940's By RamseyShobe 1920 Tap Become Popular 1920 Womens Suffrage Movement 1921 Tap Musical "Shuffle Along" 1923 "The Art of Stage Dancing" 1924 Slash on Tax Incomes, National Origins Acts, The Great Gatsby 1925 Scopes Trial 1926 Special Jazz Band Plays in New Dunbar Theater 1926 Florence Mills Dies 1928 Blues Singer Bessie Smith Performs 1929 Stock / Wall Street Crash 1930 Musical "Desires" 1930 3.2 Million Unemployed 1931 Reed and Bryant Perform in NYC 1932 Kurt Joss - "The Green Table" 1932 FDR Elected / Bonus Army 1933 20/21 Amendment , New Deal , NRA 1933 Hitler Gains Power 1934 Gold Standard Terminated 1935 Social Security Act, Hoover Dam Constructed 1936 Doris Humphrey Trilogy 1939 FDR Elected 1939 WWII 1940 Broadway Musical - "Cabin in the Sky"