The 20s

By christalyn Smithline

  • League of Nations Created

  • 18th Amendment prohibits alcohol

  • 19th Amendment allows women to vote

  • Warring Harding is elected president

    Harding won by a landslide, This was the first election women were able to vote in.

  • The Emergency Tariff

    Increased rates on wheat, sugar, meat, wool and other agricultural products brought into the United States from foreign nations

  • Peace in World War 1

    A congressional resolution by both houses signed by president Warren G. this declared peace in World War 1 hostilities with Germany, Australia, and Hungary. The treaties would be executed 1 month later.

  • Fordney-McCumber Tariff

    A law that raised American Tariffs on imported goods in order to protect factories and farms.

  • Warner Brothers Pictures is incorporated

  • Ford Motor Company is Created

  • The Great Mississippi Flood

    The Great Mississippi Flood affected over 700,000 lives.

  • The Creation of Hoover Dam

    The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder, later named Hoover Dam

  • MLK is born

    Future civil rights leader. Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta Georgia in his grandfathers house.

  • Stock Market Crash Of 1929

    Postwar Prosperity ends in the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Stock prices led to the losses between 1929-1931 with an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history.

  • First issue of Time Magazine Published