The 1920s and Prohibition

By DeLurme
  • Revolution in morals and manners

    During the 1920s sexual mores, gender roles, hair styles, and dress all changed profoundly
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    Jazz Age

    During the "roaring 20s" many different types of music were presented like: prosperity and dissipation, jazz bands, bootleggers, raccoon coats, bathtub gin, flappers, flagpole sitters, bootleggers, and marathon dancers.
  • Palmer Raids

    The Palmer Raids begin, launching a period of intense government persecution of radical political dissidents in response to the postwar Red Scare sweeping the nation.
  • Nineteenth Amendment

    After decades of agitation and protest on the 18th of August, women were finally given the right to vote.
  • The Emergency Quota Act

    The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 established the nation's first numerical limits on the number of immigrants who could enter the United States
  • World Series Broadcast on the Radio

    Baseball's World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time. The New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three.
  • First Macy's day parade

    Macy's held its first parade but instead of focusing on Thanksgiving it was called Macy's Christmas Parade
  • John Logie Baird conducts the first public demonstration of a television

    a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a true television system in London, launching a revolution in communication and entertainment.
  • Charles Lindbergh flies The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic

    The first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France.
  • The Wall Street Crash of 1929 started the period of The Great Depression

    "Black Tuesday" hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day.