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The Roaring 20s

  • Volstead Act

    Volstead Act

    It was the enforcement for the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
  • Women Getting Voting Rights

    Women Getting Voting Rights

    The 19th Amendment allowed millions more of women to get the right to vote.
  • Harding Winning Presidency

    Harding Winning Presidency

    He won on promise of return to “normalcy”. The first Republican since the end of Reconstruction to win a former state of the Confederacy.
  • Warren G Harding

    Warren G Harding

    The 29th president , serving from March 4, 1921 until his death.
  • Emergency Quota Act

    Emergency Quota Act

    An Act to limit the immigration of aliens into the United States. It established the nation's first limits on the number of immigrants who could enter the United States.
  • First Winter Olympic Games

    First Winter Olympic Games

    The Chamonix Games were recognised as the first Olympic Winter Games.
  • The National Origins Act of 1924

    The National Origins Act of 1924

    It made the quotas stricter and permanent. Made to keep out certain ethnic groups.
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    He was a famous American short-story writer and novelist. Best known for “The Great Gatsby”.
  • The Butler Act

    The Butler Act

    A Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of mankind's origin.
  • Scopes Trail

    Scopes Trail

    The prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school.
  • The Great Mississippi Flood

    The Great Mississippi Flood

    The most destructive river flood in the history of the United States.
  • The First Transatlantic Flight

    The First Transatlantic Flight

    Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history,
  • Babe Ruth Breaking Baseball Records

    Babe Ruth Breaking Baseball Records

    He set a record for the most scoreless innings in the World Series. First batter to hit 50 home runs in a season. First batter to hit 60 homers in a season.
  • Al Capone

    Al Capone

    An American gangster and businessman. He was the leader of the Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era
  • Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

    Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

    The murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang
  • Black Friday and the Great Crash

    Black Friday and the Great Crash

    When panicked sellers traded nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange , causing investors $5 billion in losses.