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The Roaring Twenties

  • Eighteenth Ammendment

    Eighteenth Ammendment
    Congress Ratifies this ammendment to make prohibition a law, and America goes dry. This also provides an opportunity for more organized crime like rum running and bootlegging.
  • Palmer Raids

    Palmer Raids
    Palmer, who had his home partially bombed, created the begginings of the FBI and threw the nation into a red scare, making communists out of everyone who didn't fully support the gov't.
  • 19th Ammendment

    19th Ammendment
    This ammendment grants women the right to vote for the first time in the U.S.
  • Warren Harding in the White House

    Warren Harding in the White House
    Warren Harding wins the Election by a landslide with the phrase, "Return to Normalcy" The next runner up was Eugene V. Debbs from jail with 900,000 votes.
  • Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

    Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
    Sacco and Venzetti Allegedly committed armed robbery and murder to steal from a payday van. They were italian and well known anarchists, who were most likely not guilty.
  • Harding Dies

    Harding Dies
    President harding, who's presidency was full of scandal and unrest leaves offiice as he passes away in a San Francisco hotel room, leaving Calvin Coolidge in presidency.
  • Scopes Trial

    Scopes Trial
    Scopes, a high school biology teacher, violates the law that bans the theory of evolution in schools as opposed to the theory of creationism.
  • The Sun Also Rises

    The Sun Also Rises
    Ernest Hemmingway publishes his book about the war, the sun also rises.
  • The Jazz Singer

    The Jazz Singer
    This extremely racist film with a white man pretending to be black was the first talking film.