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18th amendment
banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. -
Red Scare
The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government -
palmer raids
Attorney General Alexander Palmer's house is damaged in anarchist bombing. November 7, 1919. First series of raids launched, 200 radicals arrested. -
Volstead Act
an act of Congress, introduced in 1919 by Andrew J. Volstead to implement the Eighteenth Amendment of the constitution, which forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages. -
harlem renaissance
An African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem, that celebrated black traditions, the black voice, and black ways of life. -
treaty of versailles rejection
There is a certain irony that the League of Nations was the addition
that the legislatures disliked, as it was the only part of Wilson's 14 points to
make it onto the Treaty. -
19th amendment
an amendment to the U.S. constitution, ratified in 1920, guaranteeing women the right to vote. -
warren g harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the United States Senate where he protected alcohol interests and moderately supported women's suffrage -
teapot dome scandal
government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921 -
washington disarmament conference
an attempt to prevent a destabilizing naval armaments race among the US
GB and Japan. -
fordney mccumber tariff
The Fordney–McCumber Tariff of 1922 was a law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods in order to protect factories and farms. -
Calvin Coolidge
the 30th U.S. president, led the nation through most of the Roaring Twenties, a decade of dynamic social and cultural change, materialism and excess. -
j edgar hoover
appointed director of the bureau of investigations' -
immigration act basic law
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota -
Scopes Trial
A highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school. Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed. -
Nbc
Nbc was created -
sacco and vanzetti executed
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian-born anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, -
charles lindbergh
made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean -
Jazz singer
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. -
Amelia Earhart
first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and the first person to make a solo flight across both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. -
Kellogg Briand Pact
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. -
Herbert hoover
elected president -
st valentines massacre
The shooting on 14th February 1929 of seven members of the rival ‘Bugsy’ Moran’s gang by some of Al Capone’s men disguised as policemen. -
great depression
the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash -
stock market crash black tuesday
Economic event in the U.S. that precipitated the Great Depression. The U.S. stock market expanded rapidly in the late 1920s and reached a peak in August 1929, when prices began to decline while speculation increased.
