U.S. History Timeline

By Toby_66
  • The Prohibition/18th Amendment

    This was the ban on liquor. After entering World War 1 the president banned it. But just a year later it got ratified. Then they put they made the National Prohibition Act. The crime rate went up and Al Capone was one of Chicago's biggest gangsters.
  • The first League of Nations assembly is held in Paris

    It was a big meeting to try and establish world peace
  • 19th Amendment

    Women could finally vote now
  • Warren G. Harding elected president

    He started as a small-town newspaper publisher and worked his way up to U.S. Senator from Ohio. He eventually became a Republican presidential candidate
  • Thompson Machine gun

    was one of the first submachine guns used in the army and was made by John T. Thompson
  • Great Kanto Earthquake

    The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale with its focus deep beneath Izu Ōshima Island in Sagami Bay.
  • The Klu Klux Klan is reborn

    The KKK believed that America should be racially pure, which means they discriminated the blacks. The Klan became very strong in many states, including non-southern states
  • U.S. Starts Numbered Highway System

    In a precursor to the modern interstate highway system, the federal government introduces a national highway numbering system in an effort to standardize roadways, especially local roads and trails with names unfamiliar to outsiders
  • Ford Model T

    The Ford Model T has come out and it has been one of the best-selling cars for a long time. Manufactured by Ford Motor Company.
  • Black Tuesday

    The economic boom ended by Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929); the stock market crashed, leading to the Great Depression. The market began to drop on Thursday, October 24, 1929, and the fall continued until the huge crash on Tuesday, October 29, 1929.