The 1920s

  • The Ku Klux Klan

    The Ku Klux Klan
    A group of white supremacists in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, and Indianapolis
  • Period: to

    18th amendment

    banned alcohol, ratified in 1919.
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare
    Widespread labor unrest in 1919, combined with a wave of bombings, Communist in Russia, and the short-lived Communist revolt in Hungary fed a fear that the US was also on the verge of a revolution
  • National Origins act

    limited immigrants to 100,000
  • Monkey Trial

    Monkey Trial
    Monkey Trial, first court trial to ever be broadcasted over the radio. Was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.