Timeline of Key Events

Question 1

1918 -

Answer 1

• End of WW1

- The number of working women had increased by 25%

Question 2

1919 -

Answer 2

• 18th Amendment- Prohibition

Declared the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal.

Question 3

1920 -

RS & PR

Answer 3

• Red scare & Palmer raids
  ( - A term given to the fear of and reaction against communist radicals in the U.S. in the years immediately following World War I and the Russian Revolution.)
  ( - A series of raids conducted by the Department of Justice, overseen by Mitchell Palmer, it aimed to capture and arrest suspected radical leftists, mostly immigrants thought to be anarchists and communists, then deport them from the country.)

Question 4

1920 -

Answer 4

• 19th Amendment- Women can vote
• The average working week was 47 hours
• Real wages increased by 14%
• USA’s current GNP = $73 billion
• 7.5 million automobiles were on the road
• The majority of rural America was without electricity
• Rate of foreclosure was 3.2% in 1000
  (When banks would close down farms, throw farmers family out, to gain back some money loaned to the farmers if they could not repay it.)

Question 5

1920 -

Answer 5

• Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested
  (Two Italian migrant, suspected anarchists, who were controversially convicted of murdering a guard in an armed robbery. They were sentenced to death by the trial judge.
  7 years later, they were electrocuted in the electric chair. Anti-Italianism and anti-immigrant bias were suspected as having heavily influenced the verdict.)

Question 6

1921 -

Answer 6

• Warren Harding (1921-1923)
  (A popular republican US president (1921-1923))
• Policy of Laissez Faire from government
• Federal highway Act
  (10,000 miles of new road every year.)
• Emergency Immigration Law
  (Restricting the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of 20110/11)
• KKK has 100,000 members
• Margaret Sanger sets up the American Birth Control League

Question 7

1922 -

Answer 7

• Fordney McCumber Act
  ( It was a law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods to protect factories and farms.)
• Unemployment never rises above 3.7% (-1929)
• Charles Ponzi, conned thousands out money

Question 8

1923 -

Answer 8

• Calvin Coolidge (1923 - 1929)
• 2,000 campsites built across America
  (For family leisure)
• Agricultural Credits Act

Question 9

1924 -

Answer 9

• Johnson-Reed Immigration Act
• Federal taxes reduced
• Goodyear tyres had a profit of $115 million
• Dawes Plan