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Harlem Renaissance Began
African-American literature, art, music, and dance began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. This African-American cultural movement became known as "The New Negro Movement" -
Volstead Acts
Also known as The National Prohibtion Act, was enacted to carry out the eighteenth amendment which basically established the prohibtion act. -
Palmer Raids
Leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Though more than 500 foreign citizens were deported, including a number of prominent leftist leaders, -
Red Scare
The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents,about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. -
18th Amendment
Effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport and sale of alcohol illegal. -
Treaty of Versailles Rejected
Formal peace treaty between the World War I Allies and Germany. The leaders of the “Big Four” Allies Britain, France, Italy and the United States met in Paris in early 1919 to draft the treaty. -
19th Amendment
Guarantees the American woman the right to vote. -
Warren G. Harding
29th president, republican, protected alcohol prohibtion, moderatly supported womans rights, anti bully treaty, august 23rd suddenly collapsed and died. -
Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across the Atlantic Ocean
Received a phone call that would change her life. She was invited to become the first woman passenger to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a plane. -
Washington Disarmament Conference
League of Nations, it was attended by nine nations the United States, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal regarding interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. Soviet Russia not invited. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Bribery scandal, 1920-1923, President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
A tariif commisoned to either raise or lower 50%. Post WW1 effort against european goods. -
Calvin Coolidge
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Immigration Act Basic Law
United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890 -
Scopes Trial
John Scopes was charged with violating the Tennesse Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in state funded schools. -
NBC Founded
American commercial broadcast television and radio network. -
Charles Lindberg Made First Trans-Atlantic Flight
Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.New York hotelier Raymond Orteig announced a $25,000 prize for the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris, or Paris to New York. -
Sacco and Vanzetti executed
Italian-born anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States in 1920. -
The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. -
Kellog-Briand Pact
Also known as The Pact of Paris, agreement basically stated that war was outlawed. Had little effect in stopping the rising militarism of the 1930s or preventing World War II. -
St. Valentines Massacre
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder of seven mob associates of North side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran during the Prohibition Era. -
Herbert Hoover
Stock Market Crash, own sports, first lady graduated from Stanford with geoglgy degree, Hoover Dam -
Stock Market Crash
stock prices plummeted. Vast numbers of people were selling their stocks. On "Black Thursday," 12.9 million shares were sold - double the previous record. -
Great Depression Began
Severe worldwide economic depression,most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. -
J. Edgar Hoover appointed Director
Was the first Director of the FBI of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at age 77.