Chapter Chronology

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Chapter Review

Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 23

Question

This chronology lists significant historical events covered in the chapter but not all of them are directly related. To complete this activity, select three to five events and write a creative, paragraph-length story that explains how these events are connected, what happened, and why it matters.
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CHRONOLOGY

1920
  • Prohibition begins.
  • Women get the vote.
  • Warren G. Harding elected president.
1921
  • Sheppard-Towner Act.
  • Congress restricts immigration.
1922
  • Five-Power Naval Treaty.
1923
  • Equal Rights Amendment defeated in Congress.
  • Harding dies; Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes president.
1924
  • Dawes Plan.
  • Coolidge elected president.
  • Johnson-Reed Act.
  • Indian Citizenship Act.
1925
  • Scopes trial.
1927
  • Charles Lindbergh flies nonstop across the Atlantic.
  • Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed.
1928
  • Kellogg-Briand pact.
  • Herbert Hoover elected president.
1929
  • St. Valentine’s Day murders.
  • Agricultural Marketing Act.
  • Publication of Middletown.
  • Stock market collapses.
1930
  • Congress authorizes $420 million for public works projects.
  • Hawley-Smoot tariff.
1931
  • Scottsboro Boys arrested.
  • Harlan County, Kentucky, coal strike.
1932
  • River Rouge factory demonstration.
  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation established.
  • National Farmers’ Holiday Association formed.