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