TIMELINE

1915

  • New Ku Klux Klan founded

  • United States occupies Haiti

1916

  • United States occupies Dominican Republic

1917

  • Race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois

1919

  • Race riot in Chicago

  • Boston police strike

  • Palmer raids

  • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom founded

1920

  • Height of Red Scare

  • Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition) takes effect

  • Warren Harding wins presidency

  • Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones

1921

  • Race riots in Rosewood, Florida, and Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act

1923

  • Adkins v. Children’s Hospital

  • President Harding dies

  • Calvin Coolidge assumes presidency

  • Teapot Dome scandal

  • Equal Rights Amendment first introduced in Congress

1924

  • National Origins Act

  • Coolidge wins presidential election against Democrats and La Follette’s Progressive Party

  • First suburban shopping center opens outside Kansas City, Missouri

1925

  • Coronado Coal Company v. United Mine Workers

  • Scopes “monkey trial”

  • Alain Locke’s The New Negro

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

1927

  • Sacco and Vanzetti executed

1928

  • Herbert Hoover wins presidency

1929

  • Stock market crashes precipitate Great Depression