Major Events:
Jan 1, 1920 – Prohibition becomes the law
Immigration Act (Johnson-Reed Act)
Warren G. Harding elected President
Charles Lindbergh makes solo flight across the Atlantic
Marcus Garvey begins back to Africa movement
KKK marches on Washington D.C.
Fordney-McCumber Tariff passed
Nellie Ross elected governor
“The Jazz Singer” opens in theaters
Ford Motor Co. stops production of Model T
Coolidge vetoes McNary-Haugen Bill
Harlem Renaissance begins
Calvin Coolidge becomes president
Income Tax rate lowered to 25%
The Scopes Trial begins
Emergency Quota Act passed
Teapot Dome Scandal
Sheppard Towner Act
U.S. fails to ratify Treaty of Versailles
The Great Mississippi River Flood
October 29, 1929 – The Stock Market crashes
Minor Events:
Claude McKay writes If We Must Die
First Commercial Radio Broadcast made
19 th Amendment passed
Harding dies in office
Sacco and Vanzetti executed
Ford Motor Co. reduces price of Model T to $260
Congress passes Federal Highway Act
Coolidge elected President

Hoover elected President
Museum of Modern Art opens in NYC
Stalin assumes power in Russia
Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy
Coolidge decides not to run for re-election
Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
Sinclair Lewis publishes Babbit
T.S. Elliot writes The Waste Land
“Wings” becomes first movie to win Academy Award
2 nd Palmer Raid
Five Power Naval Treaty created
Dawes Plan ratified
Kellogg-Briand Pact proposed
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Adolf Hitler helps to organize Nazi Party
Bessie Smith records first album
France hosts first Winter Olympics
Babe Ruth hits 60 homeruns in one season
First Mickey Mouse cartoon opens in theatres
The Polygraph is invented
Pop up Toaster invented
Bread Slicer invented
Gertrude Ederle swims English Channel
Jack Dempsey loses Heavy Weight Title to Gene Tunney
Red Grange scores 6 touchdowns in U of I victory over Michigan
Bobby Jones wins first of 13 golf Major Titles
Kool-Aid invented
Band-Aids invented
Hair Dryer invented