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The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This “scare” was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution.
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The 18th amendment is the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution. This unpopular amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States.
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was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States.
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were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.
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period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
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the United States Senate rejected for the second time the Treaty of Versailles, by a vote of 49-35, falling seven votes short of a two-thirds majority needed for approval.
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is a very important amendment to the constitution as it gave women the right to vote in 1920. You may remember that the 15th amendment made it illegal for the federal or state government to deny any US citizen the right to vote.
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a law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods in order to protect factories and farms
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This was an unprecedented bribery scandal and investigation during the White House administration of United States President Warren G. Harding. In 1921, by executive order of President Harding, control of naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and at Elk Hills and Buena Vista in California, were transferred from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior.
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was a military conference called by President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922.
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were convicted of a robbery and two murders in Massachusetts in the early 1920s and sentenced to death.
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a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the United States Senate, where he protected alcohol interests and moderately supported women's suffrage.
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that 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 Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890. It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act.
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American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act,
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Formed in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States.
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was an American aviator and writer who rose to fame after he piloted the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
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The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era.
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a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and urging peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes, originally signed in 1928 by 15 nations, later joined by 49 others.
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a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth.
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was the 31st president of the U.S elected in was nominated as the Republican candidate, as incumbent President Calvin Coolidge chose not to run for a second full term.
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.
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Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935,
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first woman aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic (1928); while attempting to fly around the world she disappeared over the Pacific
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre is a single credited to MotörheadGirlschool, recorded by members of Motörhead and Bronze Records labelmates Girlschool.
