chapter 30 APUSH chronology

1903

1903

Wright brothers fly first airplane

1903

First story-sequence motion picture

1908

Henry Ford introduces Model T

1914

W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues" debutsruss

1917

Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

1919

Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition)

1919

Volstead Act

1919

Seattle general strike

1919

Anderson publishes Winesburg, Ohio

1919

American Legion founded

1919-1920

"Red scare"

1920

Radio broadcasting begins

1920

Esch-Cummins Transportation Act

1920

Fitzgerald publishes This Side of Paradise

1920

Merchant Marine Act

1920

Lewis publishes Main Street

1921

Veterans Bureau Created

1921

Sacco-Vanzetti Trial

1921

Capper Volstead Act

1921

Emergency Quota Act

1921

Bureau of the Budget created

1922

Lewis publishes Babbitt

1922

Five Power Naval Treaty Signed

1922

Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law

1922

Four Power and Nine Power Treaties on the Far East

1922

Eliot publishes The Waste Land

1923

Harding dies; Coolidge assumes presidency

1923

Adkins v. Children's Hospital

1923

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed

1923

Teapot Dome scandal

1923

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed

1924

Dawes Plan for international finance

1924

Immigration Act

1924

U.S troops leave Dominican Republic

1924

Adjusted Compensation Act for veterans

1924

Coolidge wins three-way presidential election

1925

Scopes Trial

1925

Florida real estate boom

1925

Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby

1925

Dreiser publishes An American Tragedy

1926

Hughes publishes The Weary Blues

1926

U.S troops occupy Nicaragua

1926

Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises

1927

Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic

1927

First talking motion picture, The Jazz Singer

1927

Show Boat opens on Broadway

1927

Sacco and Vanzetti executed

1928

Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude debuts on Broadway

1928

Hoover Defeats Smith for presidency

1928

Kellogg-Briand Pact

1928

Hoover makes goodwill tour of Latin America

1929

Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury

1929

Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms

1929

Agricultural Marketing Act sets up Federal Farm Board

1929

Stock-market crash

1930

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

1931

Japanese invade Manchuria

1932

Al Capone imprisoned

1932

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) established

1932

Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act

1932

"Bonus Army" dispersed from Washington, D.C