The Roaring Twenties - 1921 - 1941 By texkatgirl May 19, 1921 Emergency Quota Act May 31, 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Aug 25, 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain August 25, 1921 -September 2, 1921 1922 First Naval Power Disarmament Treaty Signed Feb 24, 1922 Lesser V Garnett - Case in Court Jun 14, 1922 President Harding Makes His First Speech on the Radio Aug 2, 1923 Calvin Coolidge Becomes President After the Death of Warren Harding Sep 18, 1923 Newspaper Printer Strikes of New York - 1923 Sep 29, 1923 First American Track and Field For Women Feb 8, 1924 First Execution Using Gas Mar 8, 1924 Castle Gate Mine Explosion May 10, 1924 J. Edgar Hoover Appointed Head of the FBI Jun 2, 1924 Citizenship Act of 1924 Sep 9, 1924 The Hanapepe Massacre Nov 2, 1924 The Election of 1924 Jan 5, 1925 The First Women Governor - Nellie Taylor Ross Mar 19, 1926 The First Liquid Fuel Rocket is Launched by Robert Goddard May 12, 1926 Congress Passes the Air Commerce Act Jun 19, 1926 Deford Bailey is The First African American to Perform at The Grand Ole Opry Dec 23, 1926 Nigerian President Adolfo Diaz requested U.S. Military Assistance 1927 Buck V Dell is Decided by the Supreme Court - 1927 Jan 7, 1927 The First Transatlantic Telephone Call is Made From New York to London Aug 7, 1927 The Peace Bridge Opens Aug 7, 1927 President Coolidge Decides to Not Run For President in 1928 May 29, 1928 Palsgraf v Long Island Railroad Company Jul 25, 1928 The United States Recalls Troops from China Nov 6, 1928 The Election of 1928 Dec 21, 1928 Congress Approved Construction on The Boulder Dam Feb 14, 1929 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre Aug 31, 1929 The Young Plan of 1929 Oct 24, 1929 The Wall Street Crash - 1929 Dec 29, 1929 The Great Depression 1929-1939 Apr 22, 1930 The London Naval Treaty Signed May 20, 1930 The Chrysler Building Is Completed Jun 14, 1930 The Creation of The Federal Bureau of Narcotics Jun 17, 1930 Smoot Hawley Tariff Act Aug 7, 1930 The Last African American Lynching Jan 2, 1931 Cyclotron is Invented by Ernest Lawrence Mar 1, 1931 USS Arizona is Recommision Mar 3, 1931 The Star Spangled Banner is Adopted as the National Anthem May 1, 1931 The Empire State Building is Finished May 29, 1932 The Bonus Army Jun 6, 1932 The Revenue Act of 1932 Nov 8, 1932 The Election of 1932 Jan 23, 1933 The Twentieth Amendment is Ratified Feb 17, 1933 The Blaine Act Feb 25, 1933 The USS Ranger is Launched Mar 9, 1933 The New Deal Legislation Apr 19, 1933 U.S. Leaves Gold Standard May 18, 1933 Tennessee Valley Authority is created May 16, 1934 Teamsters in Minneapolis Strike May 23, 1934 The Battle of Toledo - 1934 Jun 6, 1934 The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 May 6, 1935 Work Progress Administration May 27, 1935 Schechter Poultry v U.S. Jun 6, 1935 National Relations Labor Act Jun 12, 1935 Senator Huey Long Makes the Longest Speech Recorded Aug 14, 1935 Social Security Act Signed Mar 1, 1936 Hoover Dam is Completed Nov 3, 1936 The Election of 1936 Dec 29, 1936 The Flint Strike - The United Auto Workers Strike Feb 11, 1937 The Sit Down Strike Ends Mar 26, 1937 William Henry Hastie Becomes The Fist African American Appointed To A Federal Judgeship Apr 12, 1937 NLRB V Jones & Laughlin Steel May 6, 1937 Hindenburg Disaster May 30, 1937 Labor Strike at U.S. Steel - Chicago Jul 22, 1937 U.S. Senate Votes Down President Roosevelt's Proposal To Add More Justices Oct 1, 1937 Marijuana Tax Act Oct 5, 1937 Quarantine Speech by President Roosevelt Dec 12, 1937 Panay Incident Apr 25, 1938 Erie Railroad Co V Tompkins Jun 23, 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 Jun 25, 1938 Food Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 Oct 24, 1938 Minimum Wage Is Established Feb 27, 1939 Sit Down Strikes are Outlawed by the Supreme Court Sep 5, 1939 The U.S. Declares Its Neutrality in the War Oct 11, 1939 Manhattan Project Jan 6, 1940 Four Freedoms Speech by President Roosevelt Sep 16, 1940 Selective Training and Service Act Oct 29, 1940 The Selective Service System Lottery held in Washington, D.C. Nov 5, 1940 The Election of 1940 Nov 12, 1940 Hansberry V Lee Jan 10, 1941 Lend- Lease Act May 27, 1941 Unlimited National Emergency Claimed By President Roosevelt Jun 20, 1941 The United States Air Force came to be Dec 8, 1941 Roosevelt Gives His Infamy Speech Dec 8, 1941 The U.S. Declares War on Japan
