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Time Magazine First Published
Time Magazine offers Americans news weekly. We can now all see the magazine on the internet today but back then it was mainly for men to get the news. -
18th Amendment Passed
The 18th Amendment outlawed alcohol throughout the nation. Many people pushed for this especially women who suffered from attacks by drunk men. After this amendment was passed, the sales of alcohol did not stop. This amendment was later repelled. -
US Opts Not to Join the League of Nations
After the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations was founded. It was an intergovernmental organization that wanted to keep peace. The League was made based on Wilson's fourteen points but Americans did not want to join. They didn't want to be the police of the world or give up money. -
Alcapone is an active bootlegger
Al Capone was a notorious American gangster. He was a bootlegger which is a person who illegally smuggles alcohol. Al capone was never arrested for his crimes but was arrested for not paying taxes. -
19th Amendment Passed
The nineteenth Amendment allowed American women to vote. After many women fought for seventy years to get their rights, they finally achieved it nationwide. Elizabeth Cady Staton, Susan B. Anthony were two of the many women who made it possible. -
Calvin Coolidge Elected
Calvin Coolidge took presideny after the prior president died. For the rest of Harding's term, Coolidge did whatever Harding would have done. -
Langston Hughes Published The Weary Blues
The weary blues was a poem and later put in a book of poems that was given the same name. The poem had many influences from personal experiences to jazz which was big during the Harlem Renaissance -
F. Scott Fitzgerald Published The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a novel that is set in the roaring twenties. The book got the real setting of the 20s and involved many things that average people experienced. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Monkey Trail was very well known. A teacher began teaching evolution to his high school class and was caught. William Jennings Bryan was the prosecuter and John Thomas Scope was the teacher. -
Locke publishes The New Negro sparking the Harlem Renaissance
Alain Locke, a professor at Howard University, wrote "The New Negro". The book contains writing on African and African American works, like art and literature. This sparked The Harlem Renaissance which was a cultural movement. -
Charles Lindbergh Solo Transatlantic Flight
Charles Lindbergh was the first person to have a nonstop flight across the Atlantic alone. This made him very popular. -
Babe Ruth hits 60 homeruns in one season.
Babe Ruth made a record when he hit 60 home runs in one season. This record was beat in 1961. -
The “Talkie” Movie The Jazz Singer is released
The Jazz Singer is a musical film. I showed that the silent film era will no longer be needed. The Jazz Singer made silent films sound lame. -
Duke Ellington played at The Cotton Club
The Cotton Club was a segregated club. The audience was white while the entertainment and workers were African Americans. Duke Ellington was a jazz player and booked a gig with The Cotton Club. He was not the owner's, a bootleger, first choice but the first choice died and the second one did not agree with the money offered. Duke Ellington became a very popular musician. -
KKK Marches on Washington
The KKK is a group that believed in white supremity and wants to keep the nation pure. Now they aren't so hateful but back then they'd attack the first colored person they saw. The march was a protest. -
US Signs the Kellog-Briand Pact
The Kellog-Briand Pact was a pact to not use wars as a way to resolve something. It was signed in Paris by many. -
The First Mickey Mouse Cartoon “Steamboat Willie” Premiers
Steamboat Willie was the first Mickey Mouse Cartoon. This was the first cartoon to contain synchronized sound. I was also very popular. -
Herbert Hoover Elected
Herbert Hoover ran for presidency in 1928. He wad chosen for his policies. -
Black Tuesday Stock Market Crash
On a Tuesday, the stock market crashed. Sales were plummeting and so was the economy. This was seen as the reason as to why we had the Great Depression. -
Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Transatlantic Flight
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic alone. She was young when she did this.
