Roaring 20s Amaya

  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    This amendment banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
  • Volstead Act

    Volstead Act

    No person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act.
  • Palmer Raids

    Palmer Raids

    These were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States.
  • Treaty of Versailles Rejected

    Treaty of Versailles Rejected

    The league of Nations had become part of the treaty and the U.S. did not want its foreign policy decide by another body, so they rejected the treaty
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare

    A fear that gripped Americans immediately after the first world war of communists, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents following a series of anarchist bombings.
  • Harlem Renaissance Began

    Harlem Renaissance Began

    A literary and intellectual flowering that fostered a new black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Granted American women the right to vote.
  • Warren G. Harding Elected President

    Warren G. Harding Elected President

    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.
  • Washington Disarmament Conference

    Washington Disarmament Conference

    An international Conference on the limitation of naval fleet construction begins in Washington.
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal

    Involved the influence of oil money on politics in the Republican administration of Warren G. Harding.
  • Fordney-McCumber Tariff

    Fordney-McCumber Tariff

    Raised American tariffs in order to protect factories and farms.
  • Calvin Coolidge

    Calvin Coolidge

    30th president of the U.S. and was known for his quiet demeanor, which earned him the nickname "Silent Cal."
  • J. Edgar Hoover

    J. Edgar Hoover

    Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation.
  • Immigration Act Basic Law

    Immigration Act Basic Law

    This Act limited the number of immigrants allowed entry to the United States through a national origins quota.
  • Scopes trial

    Scopes trial

    A Tennessee legal case involving the teaching of evolution in punblic schools.
  • NBC Founded

    NBC Founded

    Founded in New York City, NY by David Sarnoff.
  • Charles Lindberg

    Charles Lindberg

    Made first Trans-Atlantic Ocean
  • Sacco and Vanzetti Executed

    Sacco and Vanzetti Executed

    Excuted for murder
  • The Jazz Singer Released

    The Jazz Singer Released

    An American musical film.
  • Amelia Earhart

    Amelia Earhart

    Was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

    Kellogg-Briand Pact

    This pact was one of many international to prevent another world war, but it had littel effect in stopping the rising militarism of the 1930s or preventing World War II.
  • St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    One of the Bloodiest days in mod history when 7 men were gunned down in Chicago.
  • Herbt Hoovers Elect4ed President

    Herbt Hoovers Elect4ed President

    31st President who was a millionaire and approved the " Star-Spangled Banner" as our National Anthem.
  • Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)

    Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)

    It was the worst day of the New York Stock exchange that within hours, the stock market lost all the gains of the entire year.
  • Great Depression Began

    Great Depression Began

    This was an immense tragedy that placed millions of Americans out of work, was the beginning of government involvement in the economy and in society as a whole.