New Ku Klux Klan founded

United States occupies Haiti

United States occupies Dominican Republic

Race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois

Race riot in Chicago

Boston police strike

Palmer raids

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom founded

Height of Red Scare

Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition) takes effect

Warren Harding wins presidency

Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones

Race riots in Rosewood, Florida, and Tulsa, Oklahoma

Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act

Adkins v. Children’s Hospital

President Harding dies

Calvin Coolidge assumes presidency

Teapot Dome scandal

Equal Rights Amendment first introduced in Congress

National Origins Act

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

First suburban shopping center opens outside Kansas City, Missouri

Coronado Coal Company v. United Mine Workers

Scopes “monkey trial”

Alain Locke’s The New Negro

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

Sacco and Vanzetti executed

Herbert Hoover wins presidency

Stock market crashes precipitate Great Depression