Roaring 20's Barron

By Tgunobx16

  • Harlem Renaissance Began

    This was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s

  • 18th amendment

    This established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport and sale of (though not the consumption or private possession of) alcohol illegal.

  • Red scare

    This was a promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States

  • Palmer Raids

    They were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists

  • volstead act

    This was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition.

  • Treaty of Versailles Rejected

    This ended up by a vote of 49-35, falling seven votes short of a two-thirds majority needed for approval.

  • 19th amendment

    guaranteed women the right to vote.

  • Warren G. Harding Elected President

    He was the 29th President of the United States

  • Washington Disarmament Conference

    This had regarding interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia.

  • Fordney-McCumber Tariff

    This was a law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods in order to protect factories and farms.

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    This was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923.

  • Calvin Coolidge became president

    He was the 30th President of the United States

  • J.Edgar Hoover Appointed director of the bureau of investigastion

  • Immigration act basic law

    This was a 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

    This was a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act.

  • NBC founded

    This is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network.

  • charles lindberg made 1st trans-atlantic flight

    Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight

  • Sacco and Vanzetti Executed

    Both adhered to a strain of anarchism that advocated relentless warfare against a violent and oppressive government.

  • Jazz singer released

    american musical film

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

    This was a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them".

  • St. Valentine's day massacre

    This was a murder of seven mob associates of North side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran during the Prohibition Era.

  • Herbert Hoovers Elected President

    He was the 31st President of the United States

  • Stock Market Crash (black tuesday)

    the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States.

  • Great Depression began

    This was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.

  • Amelia Earhart Flew solo across the atlantic ocean

    Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.