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A fear of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution
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Prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
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Attorney Alexander Palmer's house is damaged in anarchist bombing
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The Volstead Act banned the consumptiong and selling of alcohol.
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Senate rejects it for the second time
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Executed for murder
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An African American movement that embraces literacy, musical, theatrical, and visual arts.
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Became president after Hoover
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Gave women the right to vote.
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The world’s largest naval powers gathered in Washington for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in East Asia.
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A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921.
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Raised American tariffs in order to protect factories and farms
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Coolige becomes president after Harding
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Appointed director of the bureau of Investigations.
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Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
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John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for teaching evolution in his Dayton, Tennessee.
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The oldest broadcasting network in the United States
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Made first trans-atlantic flight
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First successful feature film with sound
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A treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and urging peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes, originally signed in 1928 by 15 nations, later joined by 49 others.
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First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
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Hoover won the election, but a few months later, the stock market crashed.
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One of the most notorious ganster killings in the prohibition era
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One of the largests drops in stock market history.
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Placed millions of Americans out of work
