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Warren Harding won the presidential election for the Republican party in 1921 but died a short two years into his term. -
Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote, however, was governed by state law. Some states even barred Native Americans from voting until 1957. -
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles inundated in depths of up to 30 feet. The uninflated cost of the damage has been estimated to be between 246 million and 1 billion dollars. As a result of the flood, many joined the Great Migration from the south to northern and midwestern industrial cities rather than returning to rural agricultural labor. -
Female aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, landing her plane in Ireland after flying across the North Atlantic. Earhart traveled over 2,000 miles from Newfoundland in just under 15 hours. -
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in September and ended late in October when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. Some of the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 were low wages, the proliferation of debt, a struggling agricultural sector and an excess of large bank loans that could not be liquidated -
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent President Herbert Hoover in a landslide, with Hoover winning only six Northeastern states. Roosevelt's victory was the first by a Democratic candidate since Woodrow Wilson won re-election in 1916. -
The 21at Amendment of the United States Constitution repealed the 18th amendment from United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol. -
Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. -
World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on September 3. The war between the U.S.S.R. and Germany began on June 22, 1941, with the German invasion of the Soviet Union. -
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941.