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1920 | 19th Amendment GO ! |
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1920 | The Harlem Renaissance |
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1920 | Esch Cummins Act |
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1920 | Volstead Act |
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1920 | U.S. Dept. of Justice "red hunt" nets thousands of radicals; aliens deported |
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1920 | Sacco and Vanzetti arrested |
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1921 | Major treaties signed at Washington Disarmament Conference limit naval tonnage and pledge to respect territorial integrity of China |
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1921 | Immigration Quota Law |
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1921 | Disarmament Conference |
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1921 | 25 August - The United States, which never ratified
the Versailles Treaty ending World War I, finally
signs a peace treaty with Germany and Austria
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1922 | Fordney-McCumber tariff |
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1922 | Fordney-McCumber Tariff |
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1923 | Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge becomes president GO ! |
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1924 | Teapot Dome scandal |
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1924 | Coolidge reelected |
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1924 | Immigration Act Basic Law |
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1924 | All Indians declared citizens of U.S. |
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1925 | Gitlow v. New York (for present purposes, we may assume that freedom of speech and of press...are among the fundamental personal rights and liberties protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from impairment by the State) |
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1925 | Scopes trial in Dayton, Tenn. |
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1926 | U.S. marines dispatched to Nicaragua during revolt; they remain until 1933 |
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1927 | National Origins Act |
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1927 | McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill |
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1927 | Sacco and Vanzetti executed |
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1928 | Olmstead v United States (the right to privacy and the need for a search warrant do not apply to telephone conversations) |
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1928 | Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed in Paris by 65 nations GO ! |
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1928 | Herbert Hoover elected president GO ! |
