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Employees at a shoe factory were shot and killed in Massachusetts, and two Italian immigrants were charged with the crime. The case grew to anti-immigrant views and made many fearful of other Italian immigrants. They were electrocuted in 1927. -
This was the first-ever radio station. They chose an election day to broadcast, which proved the radio was a monumental invention because people got election news quicker than in a newspaper. -
This was a great political scandal. It was a bribery scandal involving the administration of Warren G. Hardening. They secretly gave two private oil companies the right to drill on a government oil field. -
At the time, this was just an event to attract tourists on Labor Day weekend. Thousands of people came to watch it on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. -
This was held in France and included many different events. There were many challenges and this was the first competition of its scale and type. This was the birth of the Winter Olympics we see today. -
This novel tells the author's story through the main characters during the Jazz Age. This book was later banned because of the language used, the violence, and the adultery present. The main idea of the novel is the American Dream. -
This occurred when a high school teacher was prosecuted for teaching about Darwin's theory of evolution. This was a part of Tennessee's Butler Act - which prohibited evolution from being taught in public schools. He was found guilty, but the case was later appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court. -
This was the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history in his plane, "Spirit of St. Louis". He went from New York to Paris. It took him around 33.5 hours to do. -
This movie was only shown in two theatres. It was the first movie with sound because sound effects and music were covering the largely silent parts. While many other movies also achieved this, it was the first one with a synchronized soundtrack. -
Seven men were shot and killed in Chicago's North Side. These men were a part of George Moran's gang. Nobody was ever prosecuted for the crime. -
This began a strand of events that would eventually lead to the Great Depression. The Monday before, the fear had begun when the market slightly declined. However, that next day the stock market plummeted, pointing toward the Great Depression.