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The Red Scare.
The Red Scare was the fear of the spreading of communism after the Russian Revolution in 1917. A nation wide strike where there was a lot of mob violence involved which was for communism in 1919 increased that fear a lot more than it was. The Red Scare lasted until the middle of 1921. -
Creation of the 18th Amendment.
"The Noble Experiment" or Prohibition was the 18th amendment. The 18th amendent was making the selling, making, and transportation of alcohol illegal. After that people began to come up with other ways to get alcohol and it then began to et dangerous. So that is when the 18th amendment was repealed which was called the 21st amendement. -
Creation of the 19th Amendment.
On August 18th, 1920 the 19th Amendment was passed which granted suffrage to women. This amendment is the reason why woman have the right to vote now. Woman now have so many more rights and a lot more freedom just because of this amendment. A flapper was a woman that characterized the changes that woman all over the world were experiencing. -
Ku Klux Klan.
There has been a Klu Klux Klan for about a hundred and fifty years now. The second KKK started in the mid 1920s and went until about 1944. The KKK is a group of people that walk arounf with sheets over their heads murdering and torturing people with different beliefs from their own or even just different raced people. The KKK in the mid 1920s was an anti- communist group and also anti- cathlicism. -
Birth Control.
Margret Sanger argued for legalizing birth control in 1924 as a way for women to have control over their own lives and being able to serve their families better. Nobody had ever come out and spoke openly about birth control or sex to the public so it was a shock when Margret Sanger just came out and spoke to everyone about it. Margret Sanger wrote articles about legalizing birth control and included about nine great reasons to why it made sense in each one. -
John T. Scopes Trail.
John T. Scopes was a 24 year old biology teacher who didn't recall teaching his class about Darwin's Theory of evolution but John T. Scopes did believe in it. At the time that he had been teaching his class about evolution it was illegal to speak of it at school so Scopes was sumensed to appear in court. He had the best attorney in the country which was Clarence Darrow. Darrow won the trail for Scopes and evolution is now tought all over the world. -
Henry Ford; Model T.
Model T was an automobile created by Henry Ford. It was known as the first real affordable automobile in the US. By May 1927 Henry Ford had watched the 15 millionth Model T automobile roll off of the assembly line in one of his factories in Michigan. -
Lucky Lindy and The Spirit of St. Louis.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was a 25 year old pilot who was the first man to fly non-stop over the Atlantic Ocean. Fourteen other people have tried doing such a thing but have failed and died while trying. Lindbergh had then become an international star. -
Sacco and Vanzetti Case.
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed on August 13, 1927 for murdering two men. Sacco and Vanzetti were breaking into a shoe factory and the two men they murdered, Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli, a paymaster and a security guard right at the shoe factory. Sacco and Vanzetti were first convicted for the murders and then later on executed. -
Black Tuesday.
Blsck Tuesday was when about 16 million shares were traded. Alone, that did not cause the depression but it was a huge indicator that something was terribly wrong. Black Tuesday was known as the Great Crash and the Stock Market Crash of 1929. That was the most devestating stock market crash in the history of the United States.