1920's America
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- 1920's America
- 1920
- Democrat president
- Woodrow Wilson
- First Red Scare
- Second Palmer Raid
- Suspected socialists arrested under administration from Wilson
- Second Palmer Raid
- Prohibition begins
- Senate votes against joining the League of Nations
- American Civil Liberties Union founded
- League of Women Voters founded
- Duluth lynchings
- Denver Streetcar Strike
- Ocoee massacre
- Rosicrucian Fellowship temple began
- Democrat president
- General
- Progressivism
- Waste and efficiency elements continued into the 1920s
- Sought to change wealth inequality
- Stressed collective responsibilities
- Progressivism
- 1921
- Republican president
- Warren Harding
- Society for Science & the Public founded
- Keeps the public updated on science
- Emergency Quota Act is passed
- Limited immigration from Eastern Europe
- Tulsa Race Massacre
- Battle of Blair Mountain
- 100 killed in labour strike, where ultimately the mine owners won
- World Series first broadcast over radio
- Sheppard-Towner Act passed
- Federal funding for maternity care
- Republican president
- 1922
- Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Showed political corruption
- Molly Pitcher Club is formed
- Tried to repeal prohibition
- 1923
- Republican president
- Calvin Coolidge
- Rosewood Massacre
- Republican president
- 1924
- First gas death penalty is used
- Asian Exclusion Act implemented
- Indian Citizenship Act passed
- 1925
- Great Gatsby published
- Butler Act passed in Tennessee
- Prohibited the teaching of evolution
- First female governor of the US elected
- Nellie Tayloe Ross
- Tri-State tornado rampage occurred
- 1926
- Land on Wall Street sells for record amount ($7)
- Route 66 established
- Theory of enzymes is published
- 1927
- First transatlantic telephone call made
- Great Mississippi Flood becomes the Greatest National Disaster
- First federal prison for women introduced
- Courts decided people with intellectual disability could be involuntarily sterilized
- Voluntary Committee of Lawyers founded to repeal prohibition
- 1928
- Arnold Rothstein is shot
- Book of Common Prayer is revised
- 1929
- Republican president
- Herbert Hoover
- National Crime Syndicate founded
- Dow Jones Industrial Average peaks
- The Wall Street Crash of 1929
- Republican president
- 1920
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