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1919-1929 Timeline
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18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. It was ratified on January 16, 1919 and repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933. In the over 200 years of the U.S. Constitution, the 18th Amendment remains the only Amendment to ever have been repealed. -
Red Scare
Shortly after the end of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the Red Scare took hold in the United States. A nationwide fear of communists, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents suddenly grabbed the American psyche in 1919 following a series of anarchist bombings. The nation was gripped in fear. Innocent people were jailed for expressing their views, civil liberties were ignored, and many Americans feared that a Bolshevik-style revolution was at hand. Then, in the early -
Volstead Act
The Volstead Act, formally the National Prohibition Act, was the enabling legislation for the Eighteenth Amendment which established prohibition in the United States.The bill was vetoed by President Woodrow Wilson, largely on technical grounds because it also covered wartime prohibition, but his veto was overridden by the House on the same day and by the Senate one day later. -
Palmer Raids
In 1919 Woodrow Wilson appointed A. Mitchell Palmer as his attorney general. He claimed that Communist agents from Russia were planning to overthrow the American government. On 7th November, 1919, the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution, over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists were arrested. Palmer and Hoover found no evidence of a proposed revolution but large number of these suspects were held without trial for a long time. The vast majority were eventually realesed. -
19th Amendment ratified
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's sex. Women worked agasint this amendment for the right of equality to vote. They required 36 states to ratify the amendment. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. -
Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
Sacco and Vanzetti were beleived to be the murders of a paymaster and his gaurd. Through the trial many witnesses testified they saw the two men and much evidence was shown agasint them. They were convicted guilty. After six years of seperation the two men were brought back together and scheduled their executions in April. -
Teapot Dome Affair
The Teapot Dome Scandal was an unprecedented bribery scandal and investigation.The petroleum reserves had been set aside for the Navy by President Taft. In 1922, Albert B. Fall, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, leased without competitive bidding the Teapot Dome fields to Harry F. Sinclair and the field at Elk Hills, California, to Edward L. Doheny. Fall was indicted for conspiracy and for accepting bribes. Convicted of the latter charge, he was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000. -
National Origins Act
law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s. No limits were placed on migration from Canada or Latin America. -
Scopes Trial
In 1925 John Thomas Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was arrested for violating an act of the state legislature which prohibited the teaching of evolution in schools.The jury found John Thomas Stopes guilty and the judge fined him $100. -
Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic
At 7:52 A.M., May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh gunned the engine of the "Spirit of St Louis" and aimed her down the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Working as a mail pilot a year earlier he heard of the $25,000 prize for the first flight between New York and Paris. On the evening of May 21, he crossed the coast of France, followed the Seine River to Paris and touched down at Le Bourget Field at 10:22P.M. The waiting crowd of 100,000 rushed the plane. He became a hero. -
1st talking movie, The Jazz Singer is released
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. 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. -
Herbert Hoover elected president
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected office experience. To date, Hoover is the last cabinet secretary to be directly elected President of the United States. -
Stock Market Crash
The Roaring Twenties, the decade that led up to the Crash,[4] was a time of wealth and excess. Despite caution of the dangers of speculation, many believed that the market could sustain high price levels. However, the optimism and financial gains of the great bull market were shattered on "Black Tuesday", October 29, 1929, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. Stock prices plummeted on that day, and continued to fall at an unprecedented rate for a full month.