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1919
Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) is ratified
Congress passes Volstead Act
1920
Red Scare begins
Nineteenth Amendment is ratified
Congress Passes the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act
Warren G. Harding is elected president
Sinclair Lewis publishes Main Street
1921
Sacco-Vanzetti trial
Congress passes Emergency Quota Act
1922
Five-Power, Nine-Power, and Four-Power treaties signed
Congress passes Fordney-McCumber Tariff
1923
Teapot Dome scandal
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
President Harding dies in office; Calvin Coolidge becomes president
1924
Calvin Coolidge is elected president
Dawes Plan
Congress passes Immigration Act of 1924
1925
Scopes Monkey Trial
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
1926
Coolidge sends American forces to Nicaragua
Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises
1927
Charles Lindbergh becomes first pilot to fly solo across Atlantic
The Jazz Singer becomes first “talkie” motion picture
1928
Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed
Herbert Hoover is elected president
1929
William Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury
Stock market crashes
1932
Reconstruction Finance Corporation is created
Congress passes Norris–La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act
“Bonus Army” camps out in Washington, D.C.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president
1933
First Hundred Days: Congress and Roosevelt establish many New Deal agencies, including CCC, FERA, CWA, AAA, TVA, and PWA
Twenty-First Amendment is ratified
1934
Congress creates Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Indian Reorganization Act (IRA)
1935
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)Social Security Act
1936
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
Roosevelt is reelected
Butler v. United States ruling
1937
United States Housing Authority (USHA)
Roosevelt initiates court-packing scheme
Roosevelt Recession begins
1937 “Roosevelt Recession” begins
1938
Second Agricultural Adjustment Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
1939
Congress passes the Hatch Act
1940
Roosevelt reelected to unprecedented third term
