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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
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

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: American politics underwent two shifts in the period covered in this chapter: one in the aftermath of World War I, and another in 1932. What caused each turning point? What factors in American Society, economics, and culture help explain each moment of political change?