the 1920s

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    the 1920s

  • Election of 1920

    Warren Harding is eleceted

  • Election of 1924

    Cooldige is reelected to President after a year in office

  • Death of Harding

    Calvin Cooldige becomes president

  • NBC organized

  • Immigration Restrictions Act

    forbade immigration

  • Quota System

    1% of ethnic group from 1890 can come per year in 1924

  • Dawes Plan

  • Scopes "monkey" Trial

    Clarence Darrow defended schoolteacher, Scope, who taught evolution in schools

  • CBS created

  • execution of Sacco and Venzetti

    Itlaian immigrants who believed in anarchism were acused of robbery and murder... convicted guilty

  • Election of 1928

    Herbert Hoover is elected president

  • Crash of Stock Market