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18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of the United States Constitution effectively 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
A Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. -
Palmer raids
bombs were droped in america -
Volstead Act
Made all alchol illegal. -
Harlem Renaissance Began
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. -
Treaty of Versailles Rejected
The treaty of versailles was rejcted by the US senate -
19th Amendment
Prohibits United States citizens from the right to vote baised on sex. -
Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding was elected president. -
Washington Disarmament Conference
Between 1921 and 1922, 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. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
On the previous day, the Wall Street Journal had reported an unprecedented secret arrangement in which the secretary of the Interior, without competitive bidding, had leased the U.S. naval petroleum reserve at Wyoming's Teapot Dome to a private oil company. -
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
Calvin Coolidge became president. -
J. Edgar Hoover Director of Bureau
Appointed the director of the FBI -
Immigration Act Basic Law
The Immigration Act made permanent the basic limitations on immigration into the United States established in 1921 and modified the National Origins Formula established then. -
Scopes Trial
The trial was about challenging a newly passed Tennessee state law against teaching evolution or any other theory denying the biblical account of the creation of man. -
NBC Founded
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network. It is headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center, with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago. -
Charles Lindberg
Made first trans-atlantic flight -
Sacco and Vanzetti Executed
Executed for killing two men during an armed robbery of a shoe factory. -
The Jazz singer released
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 -
Amelia Earhart
Flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
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 Valentines Day Massacre
Seven members of the North side gang plus gang collabrators Schwimmer and May were lined up and executed. -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. -
Stock Market Crash
Black Tuesday was a day of chaos. Forced to liquidate their stocks because of margin calls, overextended investors flooded the exchange with sell orders. -
Great Depression Begins
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II
