Events
Bolshevik Revolution
(Nov 1917)General Strike - Seattle
(Feb 1919)A. Mitchell Palmer attacked
by bomb (June 1919)Buford leaves to Russia
(Dec 1919)Wall Street Bomb Blast
(Sept 1920)"Judicial Lynching" Trial
(May 1921)Emergency Quota
Act (May 1921)Immigration Act
of 1924 (May)Volstead Act
(Oct 1919)Al Capone in power
(1925)"Monkey Trial"
(July 1925)1st Transcontinental
Flight (1920)Lindbergh crosses
Atlantic (1927)Pittsburgh radio station
broadcasts Harding landslide
(Nov 1920)Birth of a Nation
(1915)First "talkie" the
Jazz Singer (1927)Car industry employs
~6 mill ppl1 car for every 49 Amer
(1929)1920 Census -
more urbanites than
country dwellersWeary Blues
(1926)Marvin Garey
convicted of mail
fraud (1927)The Great Gatsby
(1925)Florida boom
(1925)Bureau of the
Budget est (June 1921)Adkins v Children’s Hospital
(Apr 1923)Esch-Cummins
Transportation Act
(Mar. 1920)Merchant Marine Act
(June 1920)Seaman's Act
(Mar. 1925)Railway Labor Board
orders 12% wage cut
(1922)Veteran's Bureau est
(Aug 1921)Congress passes joint
resolution declaring end of
war (July 1921)Washington Naval
Conference (Nov 1921)Nine-Power Treaty
(Feb 1922)Kellogg-Briand Pact
(Aug 1928)Fordney-McCumber Tariff
(Sept 1922)Forbes resigns as
head of Veterans Bureau
(early 1923)Teapot Dome Scandal
exposed (Mar. 1923)Attorney General Daughtery
forced to resign (Apr 1924)Harding dies
(Aug 1923)Farm Bloc reexamined
(1921)American troops withdraw from
Dominican Republic (Dec 1924)Coolidge withdraws
troops from Nicaragua
(Jan 1925)Coolidge sends troops back to
Nicaragua (Oct 1926)Amer occupation of
Nicaragua (1926-1933)France sends troops
into Ruhr (Jan 1923)Dawes Plan
(Aug 1924)HH wins election
(Nov 1928)Agricultural Marking Act passed
(June 1929)Hawley-Smoot Tariff
passed (June 1930)Black Tuesday
(Oct. 1929)Hoover Dam completed
(Mar. 1936)Reconstruction Finance
Corporation est. (Jan 1932)Dems control House
(Nov 1930)Bonus Army in
Wash (July 1932)HH promises to pull
US troops out of Haiti
(1932)FDR elected president
(Nov 1932)Bank Holiday
(Mar. 1933)Emergency Banking Relief Act
(Mar. 1933)Glass-Steagall Act
(June 1933)FDR takes US
off gold standard
(Apr 1933)FDR returns to
limited gold standard
(Feb 1924)CCC Founded
(Apr. 1933)FERA est
(Mar 1933)AAA made effective
(may 1933)2nd AAA
(Feb 1938)WPA est
(May 1935)NRA est
(June 1933)Soil Conservation and
Domestic Allotment Act
made effective (Feb 1936)Federal Securities Act
in effect (May 1933)Securities and Exchange
Commission
formed (June 1934)TVA project made
effective (May 1933)Social Security Act
enacted (Aug 1935)Wagner Act (Nation Labor
Relations Act) made
effective (July 135)FDR proposes "court
packing" plan (Feb 1937)FDR announces plan
to implement Keynesian
economics (Apr 1937)FDR Reelected
(Nov 1936)Schechter case
(May 1935)Supreme Court deems
AAA unconstitutional
(Jan 1936)Periods
First Red Scare (1919-1920)Short Recession
(1920-21)Mellon's series of tax
reductions (1921-1926)Teapot Dome Scandal
(1921 - 1923)Woodrow Wilson's Presidency
(Mar. 1913 - Mar. 1921)Warren G. Harding's Presidency
(Mar. 1921 - Aug. 1923)Calvin Coolidge's Presidency
(Aug 1923 - Mar. 1929)Herbert Hoover's Presidency
(Mar. 4 1929 - Mar. 4 1933)FDR's Presidency
(Mar. 1933 - Apr. 1945)Miss. Valley Drought (1930-31)100 days Congress
in session
(Mar. 1933 - June 1933)Dust Bowl
(1930-1936)
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