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The beginning of Prohibition. This amendment prohibited the sale, consumption, production, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
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Was the first film to use the term and image of flappers in the US.
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Prohibited any US citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. Allowed women to vote for the first time in the 1920 election.
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29th President of the United States. Republican. Won in a landslide victory with 60.3% of the popular vote.
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Station KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was the first US licensed commercial broadcasting station to initiate regular broadcasts.
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Restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of the U.S. Census of 1910.
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Was a bribery scandal that involved leasing Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome and two other locations to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. Teapot Dome was regarded as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics" and contributed to further ruining the reputation of the Harding administration.
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Harding suffered what was believed to be an apoplexy (later scholars believed he succumbed to congestive heart failure) in San Francisco while on a speaking tour.
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Coolidge was on vacation at his family home in Vermont (which had no electricity or telephone) when he receieved the message of Hardin'g death. He was sworn in as president at 2:47 am by his father. He was re-sworn in by a Justice of the Supreme Court in Washington DC the next day.
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The Harlem Renaissance began to reach its zenith years in 1924, the year that Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life hosted a party for black writers where many white publishers were in attendance.
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Limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Emergency Quota Act. Also prohibited the immigration of Middle Easterners, East Asians, and Asian Indians.
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30th President of the United States. Republican. Won the 1924 election with 54% of the popular vote. He was given credit for a booming economy at home and no visible crises abroad. He also restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of Harding's administration and left office with considerable popularity at the end of his term.
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Taking place in the height of the Roaring 20s, it tells the story of Nick Carraway, a less-than-well-to-do man who finds himself caught up in a blossoming relationship between his married cousin, Daisy, and his enigmatic neighbor, Jay Gatsby. The setting of the novel contributed greatly to its popularity following its early release, but the book did not receive widespread attention until after Fitzgerald's death in 1940.
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Commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, it was a landmark American legal case in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school.
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First solo non-stop flight made from New York to Paris (3,600 statute miles) in a single-seat, single-engine monoplane called Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh was also awarded the nation’s highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his historic exploit.
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Two Italian immigrant anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals they were executed, still protesting their innocence.
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The world's first talking motion picture or "Talkie"
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The second huge success for the Ford Motor Company, after its predecessor, the Model T. It replaced the venerable Model T, which had been produced for 18 years.
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31st President of the United States. Republican. Won the election with a landslide victory of 58% of the popular vote due to the booming economy being associated with the Republican party.
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The murder of 7 mob associates as part of a prohibition era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran.
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The first Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927/1928 film season.
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Also known as Black Tuesday, it was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries.
