CHRONOLOGY

1920

  • Prohibition begins.

  • Women get the vote.

  • Warren G. Harding elected president.

    • 1921

  • Sheppard-Towner Act enacted.

  • Congress restricts immigration.

    • 1922

  • Teapot Dome scandal breaks.

  • Five-Power Naval Treaty signed.

    • 1923

  • Equal Rights Amendment defeated in Congress.

  • Harding dies; Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes president.

    • 1924

  • Dawes Plan effected.

  • Coolidge elected president.

  • Johnson-Reed Act enacted.

  • Indian Citizenship Act enacted.

    • 1925

  • Scopes trial held.

    • 1927

  • Charles Lindbergh flies nonstop across Atlantic.

  • Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed.

    • 1928

  • Kellogg-Briand pact signed.

  • Herbert Hoover elected president.

    • 1929

  • St. Valentine’s Day murders occur.

  • Agricultural Marketing Act enacted.

  • Middletown published.

  • Stock market collapses.

    • 1930

  • Congress authorizes $420 million for public works projects.

  • Hawley-Smoot tariff passed.

    • 1931

  • Scottsboro Boys arrested.

  • Harlan County, Kentucky, coal miners strike.

    • 1932

  • River Rouge factory demonstration takes place.

  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation established.

  • National Farmers’ Holiday Association formed.