Social Science, Timeline + Glossary + Conclusion

Seattle general strike date range

Feb. 6 - 11, 1919

Schenck v. United States

Mar. 3, 1919

Thomas Hardwick mail bomb

Apr. 29, 1919

Versailles Peace Treaty signed

June 28, 1919

Palmer mail bomb

June 2, 1919

end of the D.C. race riots

July 24, 1919

murder of Eugene Williams

July 27, 1919

Boston police strike date range

Sept. 9 - 13, 1919

AA steelworkers' strike

Sept. 22, 1919

Elaine Massacre date range

Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 1919

Woodrow Wilson stroke

Oct 2, 1919

Palmer raids (month and year)

Nov. 1919

400,000 coal miners' strike date range

Nov. 1 - Dec. 10

NY Yankees purchase of Babe Ruth's contract from the Red Sox announcement

Jan. 5, 1920

Volstead Act takes effect, Prohibition begins

Jan. 17, 1920

American Civil Liberties Union is founded (month and year)

Jan. 1920

Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles again

Mar. 19, 1920

Marcus Garvey speaks at Madison Square Garden

Aug. 1

Nineteenth Amendment ratified

Aug. 18, 1920

federal 72-day road trip through national parks begins

Aug. 26, 1920

Charles Ponzi indicted on mail fraud counts

Oct. 1, 1920

Warren G. Harding is elected president, broadcasted on KDKA

Nov. 2, 1920

Warren G. Harding delivers inaugural address

Mar. 4, 1921

Sacco and Vanzetti are convicted of murder

July 14, 1921

First unknown soldier buried at Arlington National Cemetery

Nov. 11, 1921

Washington Naval Conference opens

Nov. 12, 1921

NY Giants v. NY Yankees broadcasted on radio

Oct. 4, 1922

Ozawa v. United States

Nov. 13, 1922

United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind

Feb. 19, 1923

Marcus Garvey sentenced to prison for mail fraud

June 21, 1923

Warren G. Harding dies in office

Aug. 2, 1923

Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as president

Aug. 3, 1923

Alice Paul's ERA is introduced to Congress (month and year)

Dec. 1923

Angelus Temple is completed (year)

1923

1/2 of American cars is a Ford (year)

1923

the Charleston dance craze sweeps the nation

1923

a Senate investigation exposes Teapot Dome

1923

Leopold and Loeb sentenced to life in prison

Sept. 10, 1924

Calvin Coolidge reelected

Nov. 4, 1924

J. Edgar Hoover named BOI head (year)

1924

Model T retails for $290 (year)

1924

Johnson-Reed Immigration Act passed (year)

1924

Scopes Trial date range

July 10 - 21, 1925

William Jennings Bryan dies asleep

July 26, 1925

KKK march in Washington, D.C.

Aug. 8, 1925

The Great Gatsby published (year)

1925

The New Negro published (year)

1925

Josephine Baker moves to Paris (year)

1925

The Man Nobody Knows is published (year)

1925

51,361 arrests recorded by Philadelphia Police for public intoxication (year)

1925

Aimee Semple McPherson goes missing (month and year)

May 1926

Gertrude Ederle swims the English Channel

Aug. 6, 1926

Route 66 given to highway from Chicago to LA (year)

1926

Monitor Top introduced (year)

1926

Great Mississippi Flood (month range and year)

Apr. - Aug. 1927

Ford Motor Company reveals Model A (month and year)

Dec. 1927

Buck v. Bell (year)

1927

Clara Bow stars in It (year)

1927

The Jazz Singer released (year)

1927

Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs (year)

1927

Henry Ford settles the Dearborn Independent anti-Semitism case (year)

1927

Democrats nominate Al Smith as their candidate

June 28, 1928

Herbert Hoover elected

Nov. 6, 1928

St. Valentine's Day Massacre in North Chicago

Feb. 14, 1929

Black Tuesday stock market crash

Oct. 29, 1929

Radios in U.S. households approach 5 million (year)

1929

Middletown study published (year)

1929

374 illicit speakeasies found in NYC limits

Oct. 29, 1929

Smoot-Hawley Tariff passed (month and year)

June 1930

Republicans lose 52 seats in the HOR and control of the chamber (month and year)

Nov. 1930

Detroit's population hits 1,568,622 (year)

1930

1/5 of Americans have a car (year)

1930

GE presents Henry Ford with the millionth Monitor Top

June 20, 1931

Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion (month and year)

Oct. 1931

General Douglas McArthur evicts the Bonus Army from D.C.

July 28, 1932

FDR defeats Herbert Hoover

Nov. 8, 1932

Chicago Defender peak subscription

500,000

magazine edited by W. E. B. Du Bois

The Crisis

George Remus nickname

"Bootleg King"

two empires broken by Treaty of Versailles

Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman